Are descriptions used in Zazzle search?

[Barbara]

I'm asking about descriptions being used in the search function because I've begun seeing ever more of them written by AI, which is easily spotted by super-long prose that no customer on earth would ever read. Even I, searching for such things, can't plow through them. Is this another way of tag stuffing? I hope not.

First, we had artwork done by artificial intelligence, but it was quickly followed by AI doing the rest of it. Will designers soon be rendered extraneous?

Please tell me descriptions aren't included in the search.

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[SimplyDesigned]

Folks have been using AI to make descriptions before they started using AI for artwork because you could get a paragraph of mostly coherent text mean while at that time AI was making images with 7 fingers and 2 toes, or a cat with furry eyeballs and 3 tails.

As far as I know, the description isn't looked at by Zazzle's search. To my knowledge Zazzle definitely uses titles/tags. For Google when they trawl the pages it has far more tools and instruments to take in any meta data on a page to rank it and display how Google seeing fit in search results. While placing on the first page of anything on Zazzle is amazing, being on top on Google is a far better and much harder earned achievement.

[Barbara]

I took a careful look at Zazzle's explanation of the how and why of descriptions, and though it's not directly said, I don't think they're using the descriptions for internal searches. What they speak about is very specifically Google searches. (I wonder if other search engines also scan descriptions.) Anyway, yes, it looks as if you're completely correct.

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[Jadendreamer13]

I don’t use AI to write my product descriptions - or to create artwork - since I worked professionally as both an artist and a writer for 30 years, and I can do a decent job myself.

Since you are opposed to using AI for generating product descriptions, you could upload a photo of your finished artwork and ask AI to describe it for you. Then you can compare those results to the description you wrote to see if you’ve omitted any descriptive words that might help you rank higher in search results. That way, your description is still your work, which reflects your own unique writing style, and it won’t get lost in a sea of similar AI product descriptions.

[Barbara]

Nope, not gonna go near it. Apparently, you and I have spent many years as both professional artists and writers, for me it's been seventy years. I've lived long enough to have plunged into nearly all the arts, even music and now find AI to be an insult and also frightening when I extrapolate it out into the future. Eventually, it will have only itself to feed on. It'll be a brave new world.

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[MOM]

So if descriptions aren’t used by Zazzle will Google pick up those (in my opinion key word stuffed descriptions)? Or is it pointless to do them (which is what I‘m actually hoping for)? I would post a screenshot but I don’t see the image option. The description reads like that:

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Bla, bla, bla. 

Wear it and watch the laughs roll in-because nothing says "hard time" like a gator in stripes! #AlligatorAlcatraz, #FunnyTshirt, #GatorHumor, #AlcatrazEscape, #AnimalPun, #FunnyGraphicTee, #PrisonJoke, #GatorShirt, #CrocodileComedy, #SwampStyle, #SarcasticFashion, #AlligatorEscape, #ZooHumor, #ReptileLife, #WildlifeJoke, # AlligatorLife, #WittyApparel, #FunnyAnimals, #GatorGear, #AlcatrazHumor, #FunnyAnimalShirt, #ComedyTee, #GraphicTshirt, #HumorousTee, #CleverClothes, #PunLover, #AnimalComedy, #FunnyFashion, #SwampKing, #FloridaGatorStyle, #PrisonEscapeTee, #ReptileShirt, #Silly Shirt, #ComicAnimal, #JailBreakHumor, #WildTshirt, #AlcatrazStyle, #SarcasticWear, #UniqueGraphicTee, #GatorGang, #LaughOutLoud, #HardTimeGator, #CleverGraphic, #QuirkyClothing, #SwampHumor, #CoolTshirtDesign, #FunnyCreature, #Gatorlsland, #AlcatrazGator, #LaughStyle, #ReptileFan, #ZooFanTee,

and so on with many, many more key words.

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