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[GraceGirl]

 

Hello I have over 300 items that I've created and I've been told I have beautiful designs. I'm a digital artist.  I'm wondering if I'm doing my tags right. I use all five words in each of the 10 tags and make sure I describe theme, color who it may be for, what occasion it might be for, what room it might be for, and what kind of decoration it might be. Please see pic.  My store name is LiquidLuminosityArt.   Thanks for all your help I'm on a fixed income and do not have money to expend on very expensive courses.

 

[chefcateringbiz]

In this example, the tags are completely out of earth range for what I would search for in a beach scene. Sandy beach, summer, ocean waves, vacation, tropical, seaside, coastal, island, outdoor game, personalized. Do people actually look for all that other stuff? Necessity, mountains, couple, for her, for him, that's all just filler. I see on a bird shower curtain you also use "shower curtain" in the tags, completely unnecessary as well. Anyway, yes, the designs are beautiful, but that means nothing if there's no promotion. There are many beautiful designs on Zazzle, and many of them are invisible as well. The squeaky wheel gets the sales, even if their designs aren't as nice as yours. You should read through some of the "promotion" posts in the forum and get crankin'.

[chefcateringbiz]

And, as I'm looking through your other stores, the dogs are fabbo, why not do other dogs, and cats? It's a saturated market, but you have a style that's very appealing.

[GraceGirl]

Thank you for that

[GraceGirl]

Thank you and I will

[GraceGirl]

Thank you for the info about the tags. I've been given erroneous information obviously. I was told to make sure you fill up the tags with all the five words and it doesn't matter if they're in order. So across three separate tags, are  the words lake, beach, home, games as they wouldn't all fit in one tag. I was thinking someone might look for "games for lake home.  So gift for Mom, her, teen, etc not correct?  I am not seeing any instructions on this forum only courses.  thanks!!

[ColsCreations]

I don't know what you mean re "...and it doesn't matter if they're in order" but I think including a bunch of occasions (Christmas, Birthday, Mothers Day, etc...) in tags is spammy. Nothing personal towards you, many do it, but that's the problem. Pretty much anything on Zazzle could be given as a Christmas gift or Birthday gift ... Tagging products with such really fouls up search results. If someone is looking specifically for say Christmas themed designs, it's not good having to wade through all the unrelated stuff that comes up just because it was tagged as "christmas gift idea" or whatnot. This is a huge peeve of mine. If something is truly for a specific occasion then use the Events & Occasions category option on the post-for-sale page to select the proper one. If it's just a random design on something that could be given as a gift (which as I said is pretty much everything on site) tagging it with holidays and other gift-giving occasions just becomes a way of trying to get more eyes on your product by having it come up in searches where it doesn't belong.

I looked at some of your products and thought some of your tagging was really good but noticed some repetitiveness on others. On a shower curtain for example, you ended all ten tags with "... shower curtain" and four of those were "... puppy shower curtain".  Just repeating 'shower curtain' nine more times is using up 126 characters you could use for something else. I am not a SEO expert but I think that kind of repetition can actually hurt you and since Zazzle's "Best Practices" says not to repeat keywords across multiple tags I'm thinking that's why.

Title, Description & Tagging Best Practices 

[GraceGirl]

Thank you so much. I recently learned  not to be repetitive recently and I need to go back and change a lot of my tags. I will certainly work on that and take the holiday stuff out! I was giving wrong instructions by another person regarding that.

[Lais]

I think the best way to associate your products with a specific occasion now is by creating a cross-sell collection. 

[alissag]

I'm by no means an expert so please take anything I say with a grain of salt. You do have some cool art and some cool products, but one thing is that the products that you've chosen to focus on are items that aren't really big sellers. This at least is my experience with a lot more products in my own stores. I realize that the per item royalties are lower on things like greeting cards, but they have the benefit of selling pretty frequently, and I think a lot of your art would work well on cards. Ditto for things like return address labels and stickers. No reason you can't have both the big ticket items and the reliable sellers in your store, and with items that sell better this can help boost your store rank and also bring more sellers to your store. Those are my two cents.

[GraceGirl]

I have been thinking about that actually I just haven't had time to begin the paper products yet

[DM]

I'm not sure who told you to use five words per tag, but my advice is to stop doing that. Your tags are supposed to pertain to the image. Tag spammers fill their tags with every word in the dictionary, which is one of the reasons why it is so difficult to find relevant products in the marketplace when searching for things.

I looked at the description for your "Be Still Know I am God" canvas print. Your description is... inaccurate. Well, the first part is OK. But you have this long bit about how the product is customizable, adjusting colors, putting it on other products. Why is all of that there?  Others may disagree with me, but when I started POD stuff back in 2005, the best advice I received regarding descriptions was to describe the image as if you were talking with someone on the phone. You describe the image, not the product, not Zazzle's services, not your shop.

You say you have 300 products, and you are discouraged. Understandable. However, back in the day the rule of thumb was that you wouldn't see semi-consistent sales until you had 1,000 designs with good titles, tags, and descriptions. Designs, not products. That was 18 years ago. Now, with competition being what it is, I'd say that number is significantly higher.

As others have said, you absolutely must promote your own designs. Affiliates might do some promotion for you, but they have to know you exist. You really, absolutely, cannot rely on Zazzle's marketplace. I mean, I searched for your "be still" products and found them on page 5. "Beautiful Birds Japanese Art" was page 4, with many things appearing before it with none of those words in their titles. Try and find some of your own products. You'll see how important self-promotion is.

[GraceGirl]

Thank you for your response. I was putting five words in the tag because that's what Zazzle allows and I was under the impression after watching others on different clips say to use as many words as you could to describe your product. As far as self-promotion I'm doing that on Facebook Pinterest and Tick Tock making videos and posts, but not getting much response.  I also paid for some ads.

[Marblewave]

I think your art would work well on stationery items such as notebooks, folders etc 😊