Search Term Restrictions & Limitations
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10-10-2022 03:32 AM
This is something that really bugs me. To show the problem, I'll give an example...
As a cartoonist, I've drawn numerous cartoons on the subject of weddings. I've put these cartoons on a wide variety of gift items, from coffee mugs to t-shirts, and more.
Now, if I want to look up all my products with the wedding cartoons, if I enter "wedding" in the search box, I am immediately restricted only to products in the Weddings section of Zazzle, and nowhere else.
Its the same with football images - a search for the term only takes me to the football products, and not a wider scope. There should be an ability to search the WHOLE of the site.
Working from a small Scottish island and creating items that sell...
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10-10-2022 04:23 AM
Hi @NigelSutherland,
Thanks for sharing your experience and idea. I'll pass this along to our team to take a look.
Pádraig 🙂
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10-10-2022 06:22 AM
I learned this after much similar frustration (I had a lot of football products but no actual footballs) - if you search with the term "wedding" or "football" actually in quotes in the search window, you'll get what's been tagged with that and not just that category.
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10-10-2022 07:04 AM
This is really good to know!
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10-10-2022 07:25 AM - edited 10-10-2022 07:49 AM
Thank you. That is so useful to know!
Update: I've just tried it - it works! Thanks again, Lea!
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10-10-2022 08:01 AM
No problem! Happy to help and pay it forward since it was someone else on here who filled me in on that trick!
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10-10-2022 09:09 AM
And how many customers know this?
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10-10-2022 09:17 AM
I'm just trying to offer some help - just giving a tip for searching within his own product, which is what was asked about.
If you go test it out on the site, you'll see that a search for football with no quotes gives the customer several categories across the top. The actual footballs display first but then the customer can narrow it down.
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10-10-2022 09:22 AM
Again, good to know—for both answers. Very helpful!
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10-10-2022 09:05 AM
So, does this mean that customers also need to put the search term in quotes for this to work?
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10-10-2022 09:10 AM
Seems so, and how many would actually do this?
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10-10-2022 11:52 AM - edited 10-10-2022 11:58 AM
Searching for wedding cartoon brings up things similar to your products. I don't have time to see how the items that outrank you are tagged and titled. but I would think customers might search for funny wedding cartoon napkins and such.

