topic Re: RSS Help Needed in General Zazzle Discussion

RSS Help Needed

ameliacarrie — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 08:15:48 GMT

In my RSS feed I am trying to build I sometimes see blank products like this. Not sure if it's the RSS or spam? Or, is there something wrong with my code? I am trying to get popular items, and, end up with a mixed bag of things and blank items. Here is my code. [feedzy-rss feeds=http://zazzle.com/rss?qs=birthday st=popularity&sp=30 max="30" feed_title="no" size="200" meta="No" summary="yes" price="yes" columns="2" template="style3"]

Re: RSS Help Needed

MOM — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:08:19 GMT

@ameliacarrie Your RSS coding is just fine. The two blank products in your screenshot are by a fairly new seller (store dog_gift34 by creator Anonymous who joined 2025 with 0 Followers) who simply assigned a black background color (#000000) to the design. Could be that this person just forgot to upload the Unicorn graphic (who knows?) but the frequency of his/her black designs smells very much like spammer to me. In any case there is nothing wrong with your RSS code I believe. Sorry about the blank designs - this problem is a growing one. 😞

Re: RSS Help Needed

MOM — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:43:08 GMT

@ameliacarrie PS: This seller (Anonymous) started listing on 7/24/2025, 12:15 PM (Product ID: 256567017529255521) and has created as of yesterday 7/29/2025, 4:06 AM (Product ID: 256046687927269032) 1024 products (some blank, some with unicorns) - certainly a quick poster. Your RSS feed will soon start to look very boring. And all listings seem to carry the same key words: unicorn, be a unicorn, unicorn lover, rainbow unicorn, unicorns, kawaii, horse, rainbows, unicorn, weightlifting, bigfoot

Re: RSS Help Needed

Windy — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:57:46 GMT

These appearances are happening so frequently now that I am convinced it's one outfit or just one guy, who has figured out how to sell pre-made shops to new users of the platform. These shops share certain similarities and are chock full of dozens or hundreds of products which have nothing but a solid color as a design.

My hope is that Zazzle is working to combat this, and that this is why we sometimes see all black products, rather than all some weird shade of peach or mocha.