This happened to another site we fled from way back. A person would have to go through a dozen pages before the creative and unique products started showing up. I don’t know if it’s Zazzle fault. They too have to play the seo game. Ugh.
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You are not alone. I too have been through all those changes (here since 2008), some have been devastating to sales, but I have stuck with it and rebuilt sales EVERY TIME, but I too am not making covers, time waster for pennies.
I hadn’t heard we’d be thrown to the bottom of the line. That is another break. 25k, no. And I won’t make them for new designs either or I won’t be able to keep up with removing/revamping older things and adding new designs to keep things “fresh” – which is a much better use of time, and frankly, better for advertising.
Welp, this just sucks.
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I’ve noticed that too! It is a distraction! Me, I just want to see the product and the design.
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And… a rank. What’s the point of that if cover photos will supersede that?
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Sigh. There’s one in every crowd.
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Nope! I dont waste the time! I have all I need!
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Well I clicked and I get an empty box so I copied your name to the zazzle search on the main site and I saw happy cat products… no shop to follow at that point so I clicked on the mug and I went to the bottom of the page and still it was hard to determine what the shop was to follow. But! I did finally figure it out… WAAAAY to much work for a customer to try and figure out how to follow a shop… They (Zazz) needs to do customer focus groups to see how they actually would go about following a shop. Right now it seems to me they do not want customers to follow a shop at all. because it is seriously tough…
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I remember you from old forum. 
I vowed to not use this forum ever. But I just hit a screaming point and had to rant.
I’m feeling the time crunch just responding to all the wonderful people here. I enjoy it so much. Good to hear from you. You think like a lot of people here. I better stop responding or it’ll turn into FB 2008 all over again. (Speaking of time suckers) Have a good day. And may the whine fairy send you sales.
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And to you too!
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Go to a Product Page. Then click on the name of the store (top right section of the page) then a pop-up will appear. Click on the Follow button.
Since we are staying up all night to see if a direct deposit that we need comes in like the PayPal rep said it would, I thought I would share what we did. We are glad that others made you feel okay about your decision on cover images and that you are not leaving.
Zazzle is promoting cover images so that the variety of images improves the Google ranking for the whole site.
We made it as simple as possible for ourselves. We decided a brick wall was a good background for our sunflower products. We chose a coordinated wallpaper pinstripe for our floral products. For some designs, we reduced the opacity of the design and used it as a background. This allowed us to actually increase the size of the product image. We placed many products on the diagonal because it creates more room and adds energy and movement.
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Mother’s Day Gifts
by Elizabeth’s Creative Pursuits
MarBeth Sunflower Collection
by Elizabeth’s Creative Pursuits
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You got that right. It really seems like they don’t want people to find the store of the product they’re looking at. Sure, there’s a way to find it, but it’s really difficult.
The question was not ‘how to follow a creator’ the question was ‘how to see their store.’
Scott’s explanation didn’t include mentioning that, included in the drop-down, there’s a link to the actual store, but it’s there. It’s certainly not as noticable as “Follow” and “Message,” which are large. Maybe the link to the actual store could be given a little more love.