Why aren't my products on the Marketplace?

[giskard]

Today, I made an experiment with my 130 ( My abstract canvas prints ) Abstract Canvas Prints to see if they appeared on the marketplace, I found out two things:

1. The most important, there around 4800 products that matches Abstract + Canvas + Print + material canvas, and none of those are mine. I have made between 2 and 3% of those 4800 abstract canvas prints, but they don´t show, they are invisible to the buyers.

2. I found things like biblical quotes, repeated horses paintings, giraffes, roosters, cats, couples, portraits, flowers, skylines which by definition are not abstract art pieces. Abstract art means "... is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colors, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect". There hundreds of them which appear in that category and are more popular than mine.

For me, this is a technical glitch of an algorithm not working properly, Zazzle is depriving the buyers to see accurate representations of different types of art, and it's sacrificing quality over popularity.

It doesn't happens with all my products, some manage to appear in the marketplace, among endless repetitions of the same designs.

I wonder if it is because of the price (specifically the artworks). I am not willing to sell what I do cheap.

[KeegansCreation]

I repeated your search and found out why. It isn't a glitch or a failure of the algorithm.  It's that the other designers are using "abstract" as one of or part of a tag. Although your designs are definitely more abstract, I can't say that theirs are using tag spam. Some are quotes on an abstract background. Others are of recognizable subjects ( a landscape, a portrait) that are partly abstract and partly recognizable so the tag is still legit. The algorithm has no way of rating level of abstraction and can only go by tags+sales/views as a way to choose what comes up with a given search string.

There is truly nothing harder to tag than pure abstract art.  The only thing I can think of is to branch out your tags. Add in some color names and names of relevant art movements (cubism and futurism would fit a bunch).  But it's just a sad fact that abstract art with no realistic elements is incredibly hard to tag and therefore also incredibly hard to be found. I think that's why people so often put quotes of top of it or have it be sort of recognizable as a particular subject that could also be a tag.

[giskard]

Thanks for your input, although I believe there is some form of tag spamming (not quite that, but close). I mean some are just silhouettes filled with watercolor splats, that´s it!!!, and there visible and popular, 😱 . I think adding more specific art movements/genres will help. Thanks again

[Emma]

Hi folks, 

As there is no technical issue present here, I will be moving this thread to General Zazzle Discussion. 

Many thanks, 

- Emma 🌻

[Wildart]

I sympathise, as a visual artist myself . I have an idea: from online selling in the past of my original abstract art, I think it would benefit you to add more descriptors such as: hue,form,temperature,or even a feeling or similarity to an existing object/visual landscape. perhaps cool blue sky,warm orange swirl etc. This would definitely bring up better search IMO, as this is what has worked for me both here and online marketing of original works for sale. Hope this helps.

[ElifritzArt]

Thank you, Wildart.
I too am struggling with naming and tagging my floral abstracts. "cool blue, warm orange" inspires me to look for a broader range of descriptive words.