I’m sure Zazzle wants us to sell their products so please give us a ‘SHARE’ button that actually does what it’s meant to do. Currently, many of us are spending all our time creating manual social media posts because Zazzle’s share button gives such limited results on all platforms.
In my opinion, every share option should produce these results: product page title, clickable images, OUR description (I realize this one might be problematic with some designers not utilizing Zazzle’s description field but at least make the description field editable) and tags. Here’s a breakdown of what the share button currently results in, for each social media option:
TWITTER: no image, no description, no hashtags; gives title and product link in the post only
PINTEREST: no description, no title, no hashtags; gives an image; linked through Pinterest’s ‘visit site’ option
FACEBOOK: no image, no description, no hashtags; gives URL and title only; product link through URL
INSTAGRAM: non-existent
As you can see, these results are pretty sad. Hopefully a fix for the sharing button can be pushed to the top of Zazzle’s ‘To Do’ list. As I see it, it should be a priority.
Totally agree… but I think at least some of these limitations might come from the platforms being shared to. I don’t know for sure, but I imagine that many platforms limit the ways that they can be interacted with in an automated way - thus forcing the user to actually visit the platform in question (which is what they want) in order to access all of the features.
I have to eat a bit of humble pie. But I only going to eat one small piece .. lol. I was able to get X posts to add a clickable image and title two out of five tries today. So it does work, it just works sporadically; kinda like me.
I gave up on sharing because of these many issues.
Now, I will schedule a post (on FB). I can control text and add hashtags. Then I upload an image; either a download of my Z image, or a Z cover image I created. A nice side benefit is that the images I upload will show in my FB ‘photos’ section.
It’s too bad random people can’t share and get the same result.
Also fix the way we share collections. I have a collection group on Facebook and Pinterest and none of the members have been able to share collection links that generate an image. Even when doing a manual link share it will not generate an image. @Baylee Thanks for sharing
I’m very conflicted about sharing, because it quickly becomes unclear which products still earn me an affiliate commission and which don’t. If I send traffic to my shop and feature someone else’s product in a collection there, that work is basically unpaid.
What would be more up to date in my view is better support for direct social links – for example Instagram – and, unfortunately, not ignoring TikTok shopping as much as we currently do. All those clone sites that rip our images via screenshots are of course already selling aggressively through exactly those channels.
I guess what I’m trying to say is: I’d really like a sharing system where it’s always clear when and how I get paid, plus proper tools to link my products directly to Instagram and TikTok Shopping – especially when clone sites are already selling our stolen designs through those channels.
