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No one knows when 3.0 stepped in. It’s just an algorithm change, one that might have been introduced during months and months of work. In fact, all you have in this topic are speculations. No one knows exactly what the algorithm is looking for. What everyone shared are things they noticed, which worked for them, but you already saw that not everyone has the same findings so… If you look further up people were searching for services from different accounts and everyone got different results. This must be the reason I’m not getting sales, as my gigs are ranked at the top for the keywords and are cheaper / offer more than my competition. There has definitely been changes to the system that have stopped my sales.

Which is why I said it didn’t affect me. Then again, most of my work comes from repeat customers in general. It does depend on what you are selling, obviously. I see you are selling music promotion services, due to the pandemic I can see the demand being lower. True, but it also depends on how many views you get and stuff. I don’t believe Fiverr cares about a gig that has a 100% conversion rate if it just has 2 views and 2 sales… So there are other factors. Hmmm… I’d think this too but throughout the whole pandemic I’ve had a steady flow of sales every day. I do branding for businesses too which is my most profitable gig. Everything was fine, constant sales every day. Then the second fiverr 3.0 come in my sales stopped. So it’s definitely due to these changes.

Okay… But there’s no way to see how things affect your gig ranking anymore, as there is no gig ranking. All we have to go off is how many sales and enquiries we get. I check my ranking everyday normally and I’m always at the top, yet I have been getting barley any sales or messages. I’d think conversion rate may matter… As gigs that convert well will be much higher value to fiverr and there would be no point in ranking low conversion gigs high.

But the annoying thing about conversion rate is many times it’s out of your control. Many people will message asking for things you don’t offer due to not reading the gig properly and you can’t convert which affects your conversion rate. For example I just had 2 messages. One said he’ll order in a few days. The other wanted me to write in PORTUGESE! My profile says English lol. Both of these will affect my conversion rate but it’s not a fault of mine at all 😕

I get a few of those, but I also seem to be getting a lot of business buyers lately too. After reading what over have said above, I think conversion rate and response time is a major player in this. My conversion rate went up, I replied to revisions instantly and did loads of orders days early, then the next day I got loads of messages from VID’s and top buyers.

But isn’t this what it’s always been like? If this was the case, then high performing sellers with relevant gigs would always be at the top for those keywords. If these are the metrics then why are the results different for each individual buyer? A buyers performance and gig relevance will always stay at whatever level it’s currently and relevancy when searching the keywords that explain teh gigs offering… How does who the buyer is affect these metrics…

You click on gigs. Then you hit the drop down box in the individual gig and it will pop up.

I’ve just noticed something about the buyers that are coming to my gig now… It seems I’m only getting sales and enquiries from people who haven’t bought anything on the platform yet or have recently signed up to fiverr. So my theory is that the higher they view the customer satisfaction of a gig, the more likely they are to send buyers who shop on fiverr a lot to. THis is because they are higher value customers due to spending more in the platform. Therefor, they don’t want to risk sending a high value buyer to someone who is deemed as risky in terms of customer satisfaction. So the sellers deemed top satisfcation and fulfilling the metrics you stated will get put in front of the regualr fiverr buyers. Whereas the people with lower metrics who rank as lower on customer satisfcation will be shown to the newer buyers who are seen as less high value. This may explain why people are getting clicks and impressions but few sales. Because new fiverr accounts will be less likely / more dubious about buying from the site. It seems the ranking order that WE see is the default order that new buyers see. Which would explain why going in incognito or from another IP dosen’t change the order of gig ranking.

How do you know this to be true? What suggests this will be the case? I plan to start delivering DAYYYS earlier now, doing revisions instantly and replying in seconds. I’m worried about my performance because I dropped the ball a bit in recent weeks. If I improve all of the factors you mentioned, how long do you think it will take to make my gig high value again? Thanks for all the information, it’s very helpful. I do wonder how you know all this lol.

I’m probably one of those committed sellers. When Fiverr income goes down (as it has done every so often ever since I started here), I go do something else. There have been countless times when the system has changed and every time people say what you have said. Yes, some sellers have left Fiverr, others have joined, some who were here got busier, others continued to work with a lower income. Cue Music 🎵 It’s the ciiiiiiircle of liiiiiife, and it mooooves us aaaaalllll 🎵 Well it depends on how significant this drop is. We shall see at the end of next month… If it’s below living levels than I will be forced to find something else… Been working on writing ebooks to get me over when fiverrs slow but taking some time to get decent profits

with 5000$ a month on average over a course of 2 years you can save up to 96000$ and buy a condo and rent it out - passive income. The CEO of some companies in my country do not have that salary. 5000$ is close to the annual salary here. Boy, if I got 5000$ in one month of Fiverr I would go on vacation for 11 months 😃 Yes I could have done that if fiverr didn’t change the system. Now I can’t do that 😕 I didn’t start hitting that point till recently. The majority of money has to go towards surgery anyway. And anyway that dosen’t add up. Yes I would have technically made 100000 dollars in two years but that’s not taking into account that what I’d have to pay in bills and living expenses so it would take a little longer than two years…

That is not Fiverr, that is life. I started offering my services on Fiverr after working in the same place for over 14 years and stopped due to pandemic in April last year. So by your logic, I should not be getting clients and orders, someone who was here before me should, because every order I get is an order the ancient Fiverrian lost. This translates to what income? If your income was over 700$ every penny above that should go into savings accounts or investment. If you had 6 sales a day you should invest them, convert that earnings into passive income. Plus I though you are here from 2012-2016 around those years. You are here only from 2018. So practically there are 8 years of sellers here on Fiverr offering what you offer and you took their potential buyers. About $5000 a month… And I have saved the majority of my money but that’s for important surgery. You act like building passive income streams by investing your money is easy. Without an ENORMOUS upfront investment you don’t even stand a chance. Even if you avoid real estate and go on sites like flippa to buy online business you need like a good near hundred thousands to get anyhting you could live off. I tried investing my money in tshirt designs, stock music and other sources of making passive income from content. But the market is insanley oversaturated, you barely stand a chance. Even with selling content not on a marketplace you need enormous amounts in ad spend to make even a dent.

How? If the system keeps rotating and putting the best performers to certain buyers, it can only be a good thing. That is Fiverr from day one, only now it is more pronounced due to pandemic. Why would you leave? Plus Fiverr can stop being profitable at any given moment due to any given reason, working and depending on just Fiverr is a risky manouver. You can start Youtube channel with tips and tricks on how to work on Fiverr. It seems to work now, people are getting views and subscribers like crazy. Because fiverr would become an unsastainable source of income for them due to the drop in income and they will need to find a new job. I know I wont be able to survive with this income drop so will have to find a job. Well… its only been like this for a few days. I’ve went from like 6 sales a day to like 0 - 1 which if it continues like this will be unsatainable.

But this effects the buyers. The good commited sellers that do it full-time with lots of experience will leave because fiverr dosen’t provide them the income they need to thrive anymore. All that will be left is low-quality sellers that arne’t bothered about wasting their time making a few 100 bucks a month. This will result in a poor buyer experience as they are no longer dealing with proffesional full-time freelancers who do it for a living.

One thing Fiverr is not short of is Sellers. They could probably lose 25-50% of all sellers and not really notice any difference. Not everyone’s impressions can go down - there are always the same number of sellers on the first page of results. If you aren’t there, someone else is. Yes but they are going to lose the good commited sellers. The ones that do this full time because it provides a good income. They will look elswhere for a job as fiverr is not sustainable anymore. The marketplace will just become full of low-quality low-earners. Because the drop in income will make the good sellers leave.

This will effect everyones income as everyones impressions will go down. Like I said good sellers will be forced to quit fiverr and find jobs elswhere as they wont be able to sustain on the significantly lower income.

It’s all about the buyer experience here. There are millions of sellers here. There’s no guarantee, you just have to learn, adapt to the rules and experiment to see what works. It’s the truth… no matter how harsh it might be. But literally nothing we can do can change this drop in income. What about all the people that quit their jobs to do fiverr full-time. They are now completely screwed. It’s going to harm them in the long run because they are going to lose many good sellers who simply can’t sustainably work on the platform due to drop in income.

All sellers will see a huge drop income because of this. How can they expect us to continue working on the platform if we can’t afford to pay our bills.

Because you have the same IP So different buyers see different results? This is bad fiverr is my only source of income.

So are you telling me that different customers see the gigs in a different order? So say one buyer searches, they will see different rankings than another buyer? I check my gig from another computer in incognito and my gig is still ranked in the same place…