I searched for my products on Google and all the links to my Zazzle products and all the links of any Zazzle products , do not link to the product, the links go to the Zazzle homepage. Is this expected behavior or is this a bug or glitch?
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@plumb4me
It has been brought up in the past.
You might as well consider it to be expected behavior, I don’t believe Z is going to change it, it has been that way for probably several years that I can remember. I really don’t like it.
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I tried this and searched for a few of my products. In no case was I ever taken to the Zazzle home page.
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I too have discovered this but found that the products were hidden, or ones that I had deleted. It’s probably better to reroute a broken link due to the product being hidden or deleted to the home page.
Is was the products with new cover photos. I redid some of the searches this morning and now the links do go to the products. I did clear my cache again, maybe that had something to do with it, but last night all the links went to the Zazzle homepage.
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It may be that a product that has been changed in some way (like adding a cover photo, or doing the edits for those who can do them) makes the product invisible to google until it has been indexed. I have always seen google links go straight to my products but then I have never searched for a product that was new or that had a new cover photo.
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Thanks for the answers, not really sure what was going on. All the Zazzle product links, with or without cover photos, went to the Zazzle homepage. It seems to working fine now.
What OP is describing should not be happening.
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Perhaps there’s some built in redirect to the home page if the product you clicked on still needs to be indexed? Is that something that could happen Scott?
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Maybe it had something to do with Goggle indexing. These were all products that have been on Zazzle for a long time. I’ve been with Zazzle over 12 years and I have seen the products in the marketplace and on google search before.
Maybe it had something to do with the images, because I did a Goggle search and clicked on the images and the image clicks went to the Zazzle homepage. I checked different search pages, with different search keywords and it was every single Zazzle product I clicked on, that went to the homepage.
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@plumb4me
You are right on target. Clicking on a specific searched image on google gives me the same result that you are experiencing, clicking on the (shop product) image instead of it going to the related shop product, goes to the zazzle home page. Has been that way for quite a while.
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Typing too fast, spelled Google wrong. Sometimes, when I do a Google search, the image will have the wrong title and when I click on a Zazzle product link, it will take me to the wrong product on Zazzle.
Yes, you are right this is still happening. I just did a search for one of my cards on Google. This might be happening, because it is the Zazzle UK site.
Under the image of my card, it says Photo Collage Cards | Zazzle, not the title of my product. I clicked on the image and it did not go to my product, it went to this page, https://www.zazzle.co.uk/photo+collage+cards
I am curious why this would go to the Photo Collage Cards page and not my product page.