Why won’t my items show in Zazzle search?

[womaninlove1980]

Hey guys any ideas why won’t my items show in Zazzle search? 
thanks 

[PenguinPower]

There’s a number of possibilities. 

1- your store is not yet a rank 4 or higher. Under a 4 and your products wont yet appear in a marketplace search. All you need to do to get to a 4 is complete your store to at least 95%. You aren’t dinged in rank for not having media uploads 

2. your items aren’t indexed yet. It takes some time for new products to get into the marketplace database. It’s usually at least 24 hrs, but can take longer. 

3.  There are already more than the maximum number of products (15 pages of results, if I am remembering correctly) displaying for the keywords you have searched. This is not uncommon- there are so many products submitted that it can be a challenge, especially if your are posting things that are not niche or unusual. 

[KeegansCreation]

They do show but finding them requires using at least 3 of your tags and then I had to drill down to the specific product.

I was able to find your Father's Day globe pillow by searching on fathers day globe world and then drilling down to pillows. I was able to find your Better Latte Than Never coaster by searching on latte coffee tea and drilling down to glass coasters. 

Both of these products have witty sayings as their main selling point. Neither of them have the witty saying in either the title or the tags. It should be in both places. Also, don't put the product type in the tags. It gets automatically by Zazzle so including it wastes a tag.

My advice for getting found (I only found them because I knew exactly what I was looking for):

-If the main selling point of your product is a witty saying, that saying should be in the title and tags.

-include color names as potential tags.

-for tag ideas, try searching for other products that are similar to yours. When you find search results in the same ballpark, take note of the blue tags running along the top of the product page. Could any of them apply to your product? If so, use them. For instance, I noted that you had a sandstone coaster with lemons on it. So I searched for lemon coaster and then drilled down to stone. Along the top, one of the tags was citrus. You don't have it as a tag but you clearly should. It is applicable to your product and those tags are meant to help customers refine their search by clicking on the tag.

[Kevi]

Girls fairy garden birthday party favor tags

I found this right away by copying the title and pasting into the zazzle search bar - 7 items showed up.

If you include your store name as one of your tags it makes them easy to find.

[shellifitz]

Using your store name will not be best use of your limited tags unless you are super well known with your own built in fan base.  Otherwise the average customer will not know your store name or be searching for it.   Use your tags for keywords that shoppers will be searching for.  your store name will only help you find your own products, but will not help you to attract buyers. Make sense? 

[Kevi]

You're quite right I think. Redbubble and Autopilot Passive Income on YouTube both recommend doing it but I have started removing name tags from my products for this reason.  It helps you find it in the beginning but it's more important that a potential customer finds it.

[Bennybest]

I heard from the elke duo on youtube (zazzle experts) that it takes an average of two to three months for a product to be properly indexed by the zazzle algorithm, and i think they are right cos wtf are all my christmas listing (more than 50 of them) reading zero views as if no one has seen them on the search. and i uploaded them in november. so the solution is to upload your seasonal listings a couple of months ahead of the time