Keyword Folders – Organize Your Search Terms #

Overview #

Keyword folders allow you to organize and group your keyword searches for easier management. Instead of working with a long list of keywords, you can create a hierarchical folder structure to locate, edit, enable, or modify searches more efficiently.

The Default Folder and My Searches #

The app comes with 103 ready-made searches in a folder called Default, sorted into 15 folders such as CPU, GPUs, Cell Phones, Watches and Video Games. They are all switched off. Tick a search, or a whole folder, and press Start to run it.

Your own searches go in My Searches. If you used the app before version 3.8.1, your old Default folder is now called My Searches, with the same searches, and the new Default folder is added once at the bottom, closed. Your other folders stay where they were. If you had renamed that old folder, it keeps your name and is used in place of My Searches.

The Default folder, its folders and its searches are locked. You can switch searches on or off, run them and copy them, but you can’t edit, rename or delete anything in Default, add a sub search to a default, or move anything into, out of or within Default. To change a default search, right-click it and choose Duplicate eBay Search. The copy lands in My Searches, named like “CPU – All (copy)”, and you can edit it like any search of your own.

A new search goes into the folder you have selected, or the folder of the search you have selected. When nothing is selected, or something in Default is selected, it goes into My Searches. New Folder makes the folder inside the selected folder, or beside the selected search, when that is in My Searches; otherwise it makes it directly in My Searches. Right-clicking the empty space below the list always makes it directly in My Searches.

Only searches that are switched on count toward your plan’s search limit when you add or copy a search, so the 103 defaults don’t use it up while they are off. If more searches are on than your plan allows when you press Start, the app keeps the first ones in the list on and switches the rest off.

Key Features #

Creating Folders #

• Method 1: Click the folder icon in the toolbar
• Method 2: Right-click a folder, a search or the empty space below the list and select “New Folder”
• If you want the folder you created to be a root folder, drag the folder to the whitespace at the bottom of the searches page.
  

Click the Create Folder icon to create a new folder.

Folder Capabilities #

• Enable/Disable All: Each folder can enable or disable all keyword search terms within it at once
• Subfolders: Create nested folders for more detailed organization
• Keyword Count: Collapsed folders display the number of keywords contained within

Visual Indicators #

Managing Keywords in Folders #

Bulk Actions #

• Enable/Disable Folder: Toggling a folder will enable or disable ALL subfolders and search terms within it

Individual Actions #

• Selective Enabling: To enable specific keywords only:
  1. Click on individual keywords within the folder
  2. This will enable the root folder and only the selected keyword(s)

Use Cases #

Organize your searches by:

• Test searches – Temporary or experimental searches
• Product categories – Group related products together
• Product variants – Multiple search terms for the same product (3-4 variations)
• Different categories or brands

Important Notes #

• This is different from sub-search terms, which parse active searches based on parent searches
• Folders are purely organizational and don’t change what a search finds
• The folder structure helps manage complex search setups more effectively