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Doesn't sound suspicious to me either. A lot of clients only register to hire someone for a very specific jobs. And buyers don't really need a thorough background like sellers. I am not trying to lean myself too far out of the window here, but I am just saying that just because they ask for outside communication, they are not necessarily a scammer. Of course you shouldn't message them outside of fiverr, but especially new buyers are not aware of the no-outside-communication-rule. They ask out of convenience, and in this case they might have messaged just about everything simply because they think it's a job everyone can do. I could be wrong, but this is what it looks like to me. Reminds me of some of my clients.

How to get banned from fiverr in one simple step. 😂

Additionally to that it's good practice to research keywords. A little play on words in the gig title can minimise competition drastically. Smallest changes can make a huge difference. "I will write a program for you" might result in 35952 results in the search, while "I will write a programming script" might only show 150 results. They are fairly similar and not too out of the box, so the chances that you are found are way better with the script variation than the program one.

That is just wrong and misleading. Online time doesn't matter much, response time and completed orders are important. The more orders you fulfil with 5 star reviews, the more traffic you will get. It's a real dilemma if you don't get any orders because without orders you can't get more orders. I know, it's bad, my business is tanking as well, but that's the truth on fiverr.

Yes, they impact your business. But sometimes they are better than a negative review.

Being online is one of those things you hear all the time and it makes sense, at least somewhat. But it really is not a big deal if you're not online 24/7. That being said, it's really only a few minutes of idling on a page and you will not be shown online. I tested this a long, long while ago.

Have you been demoted recently? It's possible that you have the maximum allowed active gigs already, and when you try to add the paused one back to it, that they won't let you due to it

I think that's a pointless argument. Of course you have to hold yourself in high regards, and questioning them about it will not make them "admit" anything anyway, and even if they did, which they won't, what's there to win? Just leave them to their self marketing strategies.

Is it? It sounds like VA work. Just take care of their listings and handle replies for them. Doesn't raise any suspicions for me, besides the phone number thing, but a lot of people just ask from a point of convenience, not realising it's a breach of TOS. Not everyone is a scammer, and scammers prefer telegram anyway. Personally I think it was the right decision to decline outside contact, but I am not so sure that the job is anything suspicious.

Sorry, we are not your private army and you need to learn to just chill out. Ignore that person if they annoy you, if it gets troublesome block and report them. But stop trying to start a witch hunt.

Yet again with the mythical private reviews... I had a troublesome order with a client that led to a not so great review probably. I never actually saw the review but I saw the success score going down and being at risk pretty much right after. Now since I got the warning I had 8-10 or so 5 star reviews in the same gig, but yet my success score has not bettered itself one bit. The "client satisfaction" has a "strong negative effect" on my profile and despite all the good 5 star reviews, it didn't change at all since. I didn't expect it to be perfect again right away, but I thought 8-10 5 star reviews would at least better it by one point or so, or at the very least turn "strong negative effect" into "negative effect". You can't satisfy everyone all the time, and if you dissatisfy someone once it doesn't mean that the other 8 people who loved your service don't count?? Or doesn't it count if you have repeat orders (which in my mind are even better because it meant you are so great, they want to work with you again)? I am going to get demoted in 2 days and I tried my best to sell the problematic gig more often and save my success score and now I just want to know how much I need to do to "redeem" myself.

I have successfully finished a project for a client and I initially said that I'd create an executable file for him that he can run daily. It's a webautomation, relatively simple. During the project we communicated a lot and I kept sending him example outputs and made adjustments as he needed them, and when I was done, I sent him the exe file with an example output and didn't think much of it any more, as it works as he requested (I know because we were in touch while I was doing it and I got constant feedback until he told me it's exactly how he wants it.). Anyway. The job was automatically accepted, and right after he sent me a message saying "Hey Dom, I just had time to look at it and I really want the source code so I can make changes in the future if necessary". I said he'll get an executable file he can run with windows task planner every day before I even sent him the custom offer, and now, after the delivery is done, he wants the source code. But I don't want to just give him the source code. If he needs any changes on this script, he can come back to me. If he really wants the source code, it would have been more expensive. What is the best way to deal with this now? He clearly didn't read my leading message and custom offer properly, but I also don't want to just give it away for free now. How do I word politely? I want to say "I told you it's an executable (Here is the screenshot). Now if you want changes, you can come to me or you can pay extra to get the source code"

Anyway, good luck 🙂

I am not really sure how you can improve it, as fiverr is an opaque mystery to sellers. No one really fully knows, it seems. The only thing you can do is keep delivering a lot of orders and keep getting 5 star reviews to stay on top, but if you're not getting a lot of impressions to start with, then there isn't much you can do. What I noticed twice now in my career on this platform: I play around with gigs all the time and try to offer new things, try to find niches, and so I create new gigs regularly. Not every week or even every month, but occasionally. And twice it happened pretty much instantaneously; The new gig took off within a few days/weeks and generated 1000+ views a day. My very first gig that took off was a bestseller until my shadowban with 3-5k impressions in a day, I created it willy nilly not even knowing it would be so in demand, thinking it was a really high competition, low skill gig. But I received a lot of messages, views and, subsequently, work. It went really well, until I received a shadowban (funnily enough, the bad review that caused it was not even related to my best selling gig). It took many months, almost a year, for me to get traffic again, and then I played around with new gigs and none of them took off except for one! All the others were at floor level for weeks, but the second bestseller, like the first one I created at the very beginning (which btw never came up to 3-5k impressions a day ever), it took off pretty much immediately as well. The trick seems to be: Create a gig, see how fiverr reacts to it and if it's positive (at least one 500-impressions-a-day day) keep it UP. Do everything in your power to stay on top, it will grow more, but beware - it doesn't take much for you to fall of the wagon and you're back at square one! Don't trust my words too much, as I am only guessing, too, but this is my experience on fiverr so far. I created one great gig, milked it until I had an issue with a client. Then some time passed, and I did it again; Creating a great gig and milked it, and now my impressions are getting lower and lower again.. Might be a fluctuation, but I had a few not 100% satisfied clients. Nothing awful, but definitely not wantlessly happy either. And I see the effect of it. So that's my 2 cents on the topic.

It's very frustrating (and unnecessarily so) that every bit of the system is just a big mystery like this.