I just don’t get it. I created a few “honey‑themed” products back in May 2025, and a couple of them still show 0 views almost a year later. Zero even though my manual pins show click‑throughs.
I’ve updated the title, description, and tags. I added fresh mockups, shared them everywhere, and even wrote a blog post featuring them… but nothing. Not a single marketplace view. At this point I guess they’ll end up going into hiding soon.
Honestly, I don’t think it’s the design, and it’s definitely not from lack of promotion. It feels more like some kind of indexing glitch where the product never entered the marketplace in the first place. I’m at the end of the line with these. I’m not sure what my next step should be.
Zazzle what do you suggest we do to reactivate 0‑view products that are almost a year old?
I also view your product now. Maybe tomorrow it will show more views.
But I also think something is wrong with the indexing.. or something else.. For some of my products the number of views gets updated but for others that I see people look at, the number of views gets “stuck”. No idea why that is happening.
I’m finally addressing the too‑many‑to‑count products in my store that have been sitting at 0 views for almost a year. And honestly, it’s not on my end. Titles, descriptions, tags, mockups, captions everything is optimized. When a product still gets zero views after months of promotion, that’s not a creator issue, that’s an indexing issue. Other creators have reported the same thing, so clearly something in the system isn’t picking these products up. In my opinion, this really needs to be addressed by tech support because creators can’t fix what the platform refuses to index
I just searched the Zazzle marketplace for your product’s exact title, and nothing comes up. This is a long-standing Zazzle issue that needs to be fixed. Yesterday, Zazzle’s search engine couldn’t find four nursery clocks that I designed several years ago—even using the exact title. It’s very frustrating.
Thank you everyone for taking the time to search for my products in the marketplace. I agree with you this is an ongoing problem that has been happening for years, and it feels like Zazzle has pushed it to the back burner as if it’s not really an issue. But for a creator, it is a huge issue. It takes time to design, to write SEO titles, descriptions, and tags, and then hours of promotion… only to end up with 0 views a year later. And when manual pins show clear click‑throughs but Zazzle still reports 0 views, it’s beyond frustrating. Something in the indexing system clearly isn’t working, and it needs to be addressed. @Jadendreamer13@Anne@Anne-Marie@DancingPelican@jophb
Thank you for viewing my product I appreciate it. I’m hoping the views update tomorrow too, but I agree with you… something is definitely off with the indexing or the way views are being recorded. I’m seeing the same thing you mentioned: some products update normally, while others stay “stuck” even when I know people are looking at them. It’s confusing, and it really feels like an ongoing visibility glitch rather than anything creators can fix on our end.
Thank you for checking for my product in the marketplace… that’s exactly what I’m seeing too. When a product doesn’t show up even with the exact title, that’s not a creator issue that’s a search/indexing issue. It’s been happening for years, and it’s incredibly frustrating. We put so much time into creating and optimizing our listings, and then the system simply doesn’t surface them. Your nursery clocks example is the same problem I’m running into products that should be findable just… aren’t. Something in the indexing/search system clearly needs attention. I remember reading somewhere that “creating a mockup will get your product listed in the marketplace.” Definitely not true for products that never got indexed in the first place. At this point I’m wondering if jumping through flaming hoops would help … kidding, of course, but that’s how it feels.
So I didn’t search on Zazzle’s MP, I took your title to Google, searching exactly this title. I did find it! That’s good news. Then, I scrolled down to find where else it may be, and found a link for Zazzle, subtitled, “Clovers Kitchen Towels”. Now, clicking on that I scrolled through the ‘other designs you might like’ and it was the last one. I think AI is actually doing the finding of where these products are to be located, and it’s not what we think. Is that good? Not necessarily, because if I just do a search for “Clover kitchen towels” on Google, Zazzle isn’t even coming up anymore. Not even under shopping by Brand (Zazzle). So, I did try to add more of your specific title like, “Honey and Clover kitchen towel”, and still no finding it on Google, BUT, taking that same search on Zazzle, found it in the Z MP. This makes me still think it’s AI, but why is Z or the AI not recording views? Smh, I’m not able to answer that. But hopefully, going through this odd way of finding it, possibly, it recorded as a view for you. Btw, I really love this design, a lot!!
I came here to find an answer to my question, how am I getting over triple digit or more ambassador linkover hits, and still not that many referrals? I still don’t get that. So, something is very off about Zazzle. And the thing about that is still no transparency with them regarding why we all started getting nearly all 3rd party sales. It’s not trustworthy to say the least.
Thank you for your sharing your research, @LauraLee
" on Google, Zazzle isn’t even coming up anymore" - very concerning.
I noticed this with other searches as well.
It may be related to Zazzle’s poor website design and overall broken search functions.
Not to mention the spam placed on product pages …
A search for “Honey and Clover kitchen towel” on Brave leads to mainly Amazon and Etsy products.
I tried “Honey kitchen towel”. This did show a Zazzle product, but leading to this:
No honey designs and everything without covers and in a 90 degree angle.
So the issue of not getting registered views is immediately bringing up a ton of other problems.
When I do a search on Zazzle for “Honey and Clover kitchen towel”, it cuts off honey and clover and goes to a general kitchen towel page. When I do the same search again, it goes to Susan’s towel, but without cover design.
Something is indeed very off on Zazzle, on multiple fronts.
Thank you so much for taking the time to dig into it I really appreciate. And yes, that towel is almost a year old now, just like my “wildlife pickleball paddle” that sat at 0 views forever. It’s incredibly frustrating because I genuinely believe these designs would sell if they were actually visible.
I’ve had a theory for a while that part of the problem is the “noise” on our product pages. When bots crawl a listing, they’re not just reading our title, description, and tags they’re also scraping every single product shown on the page from other designers. That’s a lot of conflicting keywords drowning out the SEO we carefully wrote. If the crawler can’t clearly identify what the page is about, it’s no surprise the product doesn’t get indexed correctly.
Your Google search experiment really highlights how inconsistent the system has become. The fact that you could find it only through a roundabout path and not through normal keyword searches tells me the indexing is happening in ways we can’t see or control. And the missing view count on top of that just adds another layer of mystery.
Between the 0‑view products, the sudden shift to mostly 3rd‑party sales, and the lack of transparency, something is definitely off. We’re doing our part: SEO, mockups, manual pins, blog posts, promotion… and still nothing. At this point I just want to know what Zazzle expects us to do to “reactivate” products that never entered the marketplace in the first place.
I’m testing out a new title Honey Bee Red Clover Farmhouse Kitchen Towel just to see if that’s enough for Zazzle’s algorithm to finally pick it up. The old title actually had strong SEO keywords and should have been ranking somewhere, but when I ran a few searches, When I searched my exact title I found Etsy towels and 1 zazzle kitchen towel on Google… and it opened to an Irish clover design. Nothing even close to mine. Amazon, Etsy, and other marketplaces dominate the results, while Zazzle barely appears… and when it does, it’s a completely mismatched page with no honey designs, no covers, and everything rotated 90 degrees. That’s not normal behavior for a healthy e‑commerce site.
That’s what made me rethink the title. Since Zazzle only gives us about five words before “kitchen towel,” I looked at what Google is actually surfacing for honey‑bee towels. Those five words Honey Bee Red Clover Farmhouse consistently showed up as the strongest SEO combination. So I’m trying this version to see if it helps the bots understand what the product actually is.
But honestly, the bigger issue is what the search results revealed: something is off with Zazzle’s indexing. If Google can’t find our products, and Zazzle’s own search is cutting off keywords or redirecting to unrelated pages, then the title alone isn’t the problem. It feels like the system isn’t reading or categorizing our listings correctly in the first place.
So this title change is partly an SEO test… and partly a way to confirm whether the indexing glitch is as widespread as it looks.
@Susang6 I gather your view count is still zero, despite several us saying we have clicked it? And did you get the like, or is that also confiscated by Zazzle?
@Susang6 and @Anne , I think because AI is now involved with not only art aspects, it’s the way that AI is working behind the large businesses, i.e. Google and Zazzle. Here, Zazzle’s AI is probably using ‘older’ design titles, descriptions, and tags and trying to generate a ‘newer and better’ place in the Z MP for customers to find it. All the while, Google is using probably a better AI for it’s placement of all the products it has to index as well. I can tell you this, it’s not about SEO anymore, it’s about GEO , and it’s called Generative Engine Optimization. Every designer needs to google this and figure out how best they can be using it for their promoting. Since AI is here and GEO seems to be the next thing that will hold down the non-paying advertisers. You can only keep winning, by learning, experimenting, and go to the source and ask the AIs for help! 😉
I’m doing a full test to see if Zazzle’s algorithm will finally index my towel. I created a new mockup a lifestyle updated the title to Honey Bee Red Clover Farmhouse Kitchen Towel, rewrote the description with naturally woven keywords, and added ten strong SEO tags based on current search results.
The goal is to give the system every possible signal that this product is active and relevant. The lifestyle mockup should help most because it shows the towel in use a woman at the sink drying her hands, honey jars and props in the background, and red clover blooms on the windowsill. That kind of real‑world context helps both Google and Zazzle understand what the product actually is. It’s not just a flat image anymore; it’s a clear visual story that connects the keywords “honey,” “bee,” “farmhouse,” and “kitchen towel.”
If the indexing still doesn’t move after this, then it’s a platform issue. But at least this test gives the algorithm every chance to recognize the listing correctly.
I found your towel in multiple searches in the market place. The broader the search the better it did. When I searched for “honey kitchen towel” it was in the middle of the first page at #29. I loved your cover photo! I just scanned what is trending in farmhouse kitchen towels and I don’t think that is going to get you many buyers. You aren’t in that niche that is showing now. Keep it in your tags but not the title. I would also take red clover out of the title and just have a tag for it. Focus on the Honey Bee and Honey to attract buyers. You might be diluting your keywords. Oh and when I searched for “honeycomb kitchen towel,” I looked at the icons above in the circles and clicked on bees and you were in that search as well. So the search phrase was “honeycomb kitchen towel bees”. I just checked out your tags. I would put “bee lover gift” in your title instead of red clover or farmhouse. Gifts are such a profit center on Zazzle.
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