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If you tend to accidentally bump into the button, this is a great idea.

While I see why this can be useful, and I don't disagree with the idea, the solution to this is simple. Read your message before sending it. Twice. Or even better, write your message elsewhere and copy it into your inbox. Being purposeful when typing and proofreading before sending will fix this issue.

This depends on what and how you edit. If your edits are bad, it can affect your visibility on Fiverr. Let's say you have a good gig thumbnail, and you replace it with a bad one. That can cause your clicks, conversion rate and orders to drop, causing you to rank lower in search. That's just an example. But people need to understand that it's not the act of editing causing issues, but all edits should be purposeful and improve your gig, not make it worse. With that said, you're asking: It can absolutely affect your ranking. If you replace keywords that aren't really relevant or searched for with more relevant ones, it can improve. Conversely, if you replace relevant keywords with irrelevant ones, you'll be impacted negatively. Gig titles also need to convert, meaning they should entice the buyer to click on your gig and order, so a good gig title can increase the number of orders you get, your conversion rate and revenue, all factors playing a part into how visible you are on the platform. As far as I know, having orders in your queue won't have an effect either way. Regarding gig "rank": There's no such thing as a fixed "gig rank". Your visibility on Fiverr depends on many factors, such as how relevant the algorithm thinks your gig is, your performance, buyer satisfaction rate, selling price etc. It changes based on your gigs, the buyer searching and your performance on Fiverr. Hope this helps!

First of all, you should never ask a buyer to leave a five-star or positive review. Leaving a review is completely voluntary, and trying to affect what a buyer leaves in a review is against the terms on Fiverr. You should not continue to harass your buyer about this. If you believe that the buyer left a review and it doesn't show up on your gig, you can reach out to customer support and ask them to have a look.

As a professional writer myself, I've actually used ChatGPT to generate ideas (not content) when I'm stuck or just too tired to come up with good ideas on my own. That being said, I've seen some of the results ChatGPT can produce, and while impressing as hell, ChatGPT has lots of issues, one of the being factuality. The AI uses its "imagination" a bit too much when generating content. It also tends to be repetitive, and while I'm sure it will get better and even work well for SEO, I think writers need to think about this differently: You see... ChatGPT can write content that ranks in the search engines. But the very nature of AI will change how we look for content, how we search for information, and how we use it. Look at what Microsoft is doing with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Nobody there are talking about SEO content generation as the "future". Nope. They're talking about how AI like ChatGPT and similar tools can (and already is) implemented into things like search. So when you go to look for something online next year, you won't look at a long list of websites based on endless longform content stuffed with keywords (and who can make the longest, most optimized content for Google). You'll be asking the Bing AI to come up with it's own content and information about a subject, narrow it down as required using a chat, and end up with exactly what you where looking for. Nobody will talk about "SEO" anymore. So as a writer, should you be worried? Only if you've specialized in writing for a bloody algorithm. If you're a real writer, you're putting out content made for the reader. You're writing to engage people, not algorithms. And for the moment, people want to read what other people have to say. Not stuff put together by an AI. I don't think that will change in the medium term. But sure. If you're purely writing for the SERP algorithm, you should be afraid. Your job is gone shortly. But not for the reason you might think. Not because ChatGPT will write more and better content than you for less, but because the very nature of AI will make "Search Engine Optimization" irrelevant. P.S. You know what? That might be a good thing. Perhaps we no longer have to read articles with stupid keyword stuffing, unnaturally long introductions, or read 3000 words of pointless crap written by amateurs, just because that is what ranks as number one on Google for a specific search phrase. Perhaps the articles we actually do end up reading will have some semblance of quality. Perhaps real authors, journalists and people will a real passion for the subject can finally write about it in an engaging way, instead of repeating the same old crap ten times over in a slightly different way to hit the required word count "to rank". 🙂

I could set it up a few days ago. I'm not excited, but I'm calmly collected and pragmatic about it. I doubt it will bring in much business on its own for me, but it's a "nice to have" when the need arises.

I got it now as well, so I can confirm that it's real. If the buyer orders again in three weeks, that could hardly be related, @donnovan86? Sometimes, it might, but then again, it's up to you who you want to work with. Buyers who cancel immediately end up on my blacklist, unless the cancellation is my fault.

Did you pay the seller through Paypal or through Fiverr? Any direct payments is a violation of the terms on Fiverr - all payments and communication must be done via Fiverr. I'm just guessing here, based on your explanation of what happened.

She sounds like an awesome and talented young woman! The days go past far to quickly. It feel like only yesterday that my son was born. He's turning 1 in a few days.

One congo to go, please.

This could be happening for multiple different reasons. Most likely because the services you're offering aren't what Fiverr is looking for, is of too low quality og is usingstolen/copied content/gig descriptions/images. It could also be because of TOS violations. Fiverr has become very strict about who they accept these days. They don't want more sellers doing exactly the same as everyone else. They're requiring gigs to be of a certain quality, with original and unique content. Check your e-mail. If your gigs have been declined, you should have received an e-mail about it. You could also contact support to ask for more information. You can create a ticket here: https://www.fiverr.com/support_tickets/

If Fiverr didn't charge 20% on tips, a lot of sellers would simply try to trick the system by charging low rates for their gigs and asking buyers to pay in tips instead.

It might be tough for you. For others, not so much. Take responsibility for your own success on Fiverr. If you're not making it, that's entirely on you, and nobody else. You complain about other sellers being unprofessional, yet you received a rather negative review just a few months ago for not being professional and doing a bad job for a buyer. Perhaps you should consider being honest about your own skills on Fiverr, before you blame others for being "unprofessional" and making it difficult for you to succeed.

I can't see why showing your own information would violate any terms. Just don't show any buyer usernames, order numbers or information not about yourself, and that includes the usernames of your buyers in your dashboard. Why you would want to share your internal business figures with random strangers on the Internet is beyond me, but it wouldn't violate the terms on Fiverr, if you remove any personal information about your buyers.

This never happens for "no reason". It likely has to do with your buyer satisfaction rate dropping due to negative, private feedback. You can't know if you received negative private feedback during this time, because it's anonymous and Fiverr doesn't tell you about it. Public reviews doesn't matter nearly as much as the private feedback. Perhaps because they have been receiving better private feedback. Your performance, communication with buyers and type of buyer will affect your buyer satisfaction rate. They might not be in the same situation, because they work with different people, perform better or are better communicators. This isn't FIverr's fault. You need to look at how you can improve your own performance, in order to receive better feedback and work your way up. If you've worked with some repeat buyers over time, try to do even better when they order from you. Impress them so much that they want to leave great feedback.

I think that if you listen to the people with actual success on the platform, most of them will tell you to increase your rates. But if you don't want to take our word for it, take Fiverr's word for it. I suggest you read through some of the shareholder letters from the past year or so. The increasing focus on going upmarket and raising the average sales price can't be ignored. Glad I could help and I'm looking forward to seeing your gig improve and succeed over time! 😄

@editorial_video I think the implementation of the Shutterstock feature was very confusing for a lot of people. In fact, I was in contact with no less than three different support agents about it, in an attempt to clarify what was going on for other sellers both here on the forum and elsewhere, due to confusing language and lack of clarification. All of the support agents had widely different answers to the same question, and all of them contradicted eachother, except one of them, who was honest enough to say he didn't know what was going on, how this works or what this was all about. The whole process and information flow led many to believe that Shutterstock was now the only option to offer stock assets on Fiverr. Others had no idea why their gig extras disappeared with no explanation given, and several voice-over actors I spoke to ended up with the impression that their usual stock asset business would go down the drain because of this. Others were planning on leaving the platform altogether because of it, because they thought they wouldnt' earn anything on the sales of stock media, which was a big part of their business (and to be honest, with Shutterstock as an option, they would hardly earn anything at all). Combine the impression that Fiverr is locking out other sources of stock assets with the impression that they won't get a cut from it even if they go for your "new and improved" option, and you have yourself a bit of a pickle. The feature might be great but the implementation and flow of information has been lacking from day one. I think that's part of the problem when so many sellers are up in arms about the Shutterstock feature.

Hi Thomas. Welcome as a VA on Fiverr! I'm a voice-over actor myself. Don't listen to the people telling you this is about luck. It isn't. It's about how well you're able to market yourself. You need those initial sales under your belt, as they will get you going, but to get them, you need to get noticed. I checked out your gigs. Your gig descriptions could be improved, in my opinion. As a voice-over, it's easy to forget that we're also marketers. Learning about persuasive language and how to write for conversions is part of what we need to know. Your gig description is professional and not bad at all, but I would love to see something about the buyer in there, not just about you, and more about the benefits of ordering your gig. Your gig description should have one goal, and one goal only: to make people click "Order now". Your gig thumbnails aren't up to par with your competition. It needs to grab the attention of the buyer in search results. Have a look at some examples below: Now compare it to yours. Which one would you click on as a buyer? I feel as if your selling price is too low. Selling for five dollars have several downsides: The algorithm wants to promote higher priced gigs, because it earns more money for Fiverr. If you search for VOs, most of them will cost more than 10 and usually more than 30 bucks. It attracts bad buyers who will try to take advantage of you. You don't want to be working for the Scrooge McDucks of this world. They're demanding and truly believe they're investing a fortune in you by paying five bucks online. That sort of attitude can be a nightmare to face as a seller. It makes you look like an amateur. Would a real, seasoned voice-over talent with years of experience actually spend time on five-dollar projects? First impressions matter. Think of it this way: if you go into a supermarket (I do love my supermarket analogies) to buy a bottle of wine, which one would you consider to be of the highest quality – the 5 dollar bottle or the 100 dollar bottle? Price says a lot about the quality of your work. Your demos: I'm wondering what a long rap/music piece is doing in a voice-over demo? You only have a few seconds to get a buyers attention with your demo. Spending it on something else than showing off your range in voice-over is a waste of time. Spend every second of your demo as if your life depends on it. Also, no need to slate your demos at the beginning. It's eating up the first 0,5 second and that's valuable space for your demo. Your IVR gig doesn't have an IVR demo. That's a very niche specific gig, and if someone searches for IVR specifically, they want to hear what you sound like doing IVRs, not commercials. Same goes for your medical/technical narration gig and Youtube gig. It can take months to get going on Fiverr. Some won't make it at all, but with real talent (which you clearly have) you can do it, with a bit of optimization, some marketing skills and a lot of patience. I hope this helps! Best of luck and welcome to Fiverr! 😄

Interesting. Perhaps an idiom one has borrowed from the other? I know that Turkish is a very different language from Arabic, but the cultural similarities in some areas (particularly Islam) will probably have affected the Turkish language. I was just curious, because it's repeated very often on the forum by sellers claiming to be fluent English speakers, so it must be a single word being used a lot in Arabic.

Could you please tell me which arabic word you've used, that was translated into "knock" in Google Translate? 🙂

I think a lot of Fiverr sellers view Workspace as a part of the general Fiverr platform because of the name, while it's in fact a separate invoicing platform. The name does confuse a lot of people, but I totally get why it was taken under the Fiverr umbrella after and.co was bought by Fiverr. By the way - is there a way to make multiple invoicing templates running in the same sequence of invoice numbers? Here's my dillemma: I invoice clients from the Canary Islands. We're a special tax zone in Europe, meaning we don't pay or charge VAT from our clients when they're not based in Spain, and a "custom" version of VAT called IGIC from Spanish clients. This is a pickle, because we are legally obligated to have separate tax calculations on invoices for national and international clients, but in the same sequence. It's just a nightmare, but it's keeping me from using Workspace for my Spanish clients at the moment.

I've noticed that too! The button doesn't always work and I sometimes have to re-click it. It has issues. I'll be sure to let the relevant team know! (I always wanted to say that, as a homage to customer support.

I didn't know Fiverr had an automotive system! Is it electric?

Can beeewbs rank my gig?

Nothing will happen unless your buyer decides to cancel the order via customer support. It will just "sit there" being "late" and have no effect on your account, but you won't get paid and it will only serve to annoy not just you, but also the buyer. Even though this sucks, I'd recommend cancelling the order. To lessen the blow from the cancellation, try to cancel it when you have a bunch of other orders. That will help you keep your completion rate up. If you cancel it and don't receive any other orders, you risk your completion rate dropping too much, causing demotion and other issues. Before doing so, I'd try to communicate with the buyer for a while longer. Don't give up. Ask them if there's anything else you can do, since they already have the order in place, and if they simply don't want to work with you, cancellation will be your best option. Keeping their money in escrow will only lead to an annoyed buyer. My policy on cancellations is as follows: If a buyer, for any reason, wishes to cancel an order, I'll only accept that if their reasoning is justified. If/when that happens, I will never work with that buyer again.