@kashmier That would be a straight, clean link (as an example https://www.zazzle.com/goofy_cat_baseball_pitcher_winds_up_duffle_bag-256972163589469754). It will pay more if the customer buys your item but nothing if the potential customer will get sidetracked and buys from someone else instead of from you.
It all depends on what type of links you are referring to and what your personal goal/motivation was for them?
IMO, there is no reason for anyone to change any pre-existing links they've shared on x, y, or z platform.
If you previously shared a link with your RF# included, you had a reason for that. (Because you were/are then eligible for earning a 15% referral commission on anything a clicker might buy.)
If you previously shared a link without your RF# included, you had a reason for that. That means you were in the "Promoter Program" and were gambling on people buying just your own products(s) wherein you'd earn a higher referral commission but no commission at all on anything they bought that wasn't yours.
People in the "Promoter Program" always had the choice of which type of link to use. Now that we are all in the Promoter Program (now changed to being called the "Ambassador Program"), we all have the choice of which type link to use.
Which type link one uses is a very personal choice depending on one's own motivations & goals & willingness to gamble and where they are sharing etc..... So noone can really say which is the best type of link for you (or anyone else) to use. Just know that, if you shared thousands of RF links before, you had a reason for that and all those links will work just as they did before, earning you 15% referral commission on anything a visitor might buy, even if not your own product.
@kashmier That would be a straight, clean link (as an example https://www.zazzle.com/goofy_cat_baseball_pitcher_winds_up_duffle_bag-256972163589469754). It will pay more if the customer buys your item but nothing if the potential customer will get sidetracked and buys from someone else instead of from you.
@kashmier That’s the One Million Dollar Question!! Sadly I think there is no way back unless Zazzle changes its fee structure (again). I’m in the same boat. I do enjoy designing but hate promoting, sigh. And I’m going with the referral link because my odds of making a referral (while at just 15%) are way higher then actually being found by a customer who doesn’t get sidetracked by other designs he/she might like. That’s why I said I rather make 15% than 33% (more or less) of nothing because my odds are 60 to one (at least!) - it’s simple math to me. 😐
@kashmier Upfront: I love your website - kudos to you!! 🙂
I second what Col said. And I personally will continue to use the RF links on my own site (https://sanfrancisco.zone/) and on Social Media. Why? Because I rather get 15% of something then more of nothing (so to speak). I started my store on Zazzle in November of 2023. And like you I didn't make many referrals (14 in total of which one was a tester, 12 where at 15% and one at 33%. Did I make the webhosting fees back? No. But I will press on with my site using the RF links.
On a site note: For your Cannabis / Kratom Shop it doesn't matter what links you use because nobody will ever see those listings. Zazzle's Rating Filter is broken (I learned that the hard way too, sigh).
Dear Zazzle - please fix that because it's broken for over a year now. 😞
