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Zazzle's "most popular" ranking, please advise
click_click:
ok, I've been on Zazzle for a while now (8 months) and I'm selling items on a regular basis but I want more sales.
I have almost 6000 items in my shop and 99.9% is my stock material which means that the images are "not lousy" in terms of technical quality.
Now that alone is not a ticket to wealth at Zazzle (obviously...) but another very "basic" principle is driving me nuts: their search results.
I don't want to belittle other people's work nor am I saying my work is better than others' but I have to show an example to prove this point.
If you search with the keyword "fun" in the category "T-shirts", sorted by "popular" gives me some of those results I can't wrap my head around.
Take result #4 - a photo of the front of a Peugeot with the word "ownage" underneath it. I'm not saying that it's a bad design - I just wonder how this shirt can outsell all the following results?
Check the following result pages. Already on page 2 I see more "artistic" or "funnier" shirts than that car one.
Supposedly the ranking is calculated by a mix of sales numbers, views, votes and other stuff we don't know about.
Now, if you click on the portfolio of that Zazzle member with the Peugeot car you see that "he" has only two designs in "his" store.
Is this just a fluke or did somebody with 2 designs on Zazzle turn up on #4 for the keyword fun out of 1.9 million search results crack the code (or the algorithm)?
I'm pretty sure whoever knows the most important factors of Zazzle search won't tell them here but maybe you want to share anything regarding this.
Again, I think all the images in this example look great and I respect the designer. I'm just trying to paint a scenario here.
Suljo:
--- Quote from: click_click on August 05, 2010, 18:47 ---ok, I've been on Zazzle for a while now (8 months) and I'm selling items on a regular basis but I want more sales.
I have almost 6000 items in my shop and 99.9% is my stock material which means that the images are "not lousy" in terms of technical quality.
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What for you means on regular basis?
Or did you or how many times you reach payment?
madelaide:
I confess I haven't paid much attention to their search engine, but I never managed to find any of my designs in it.
Another issue in the results, especially with t-shirts, it's the excess of variations of the same design (same design in different types and colors of t-shirts). I do put four variations (man, woman, child, baby), but sometimes we see a full page of results or more.
I suppose people who post their products in their social networks receive extra clicks and this may have a significant boost in their performance.
click_click:
--- Quote from: Suljo on August 05, 2010, 19:02 ---What for you means on regular basis?
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Daily sales.
Suljo:
--- Quote from: click_click on August 05, 2010, 19:12 ---
--- Quote from: Suljo on August 05, 2010, 19:02 ---What for you means on regular basis?
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Daily sales.
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Wow :P
does they have referal program for submitters thru you link?
Madeleide have advantage in this case :P
Send me both PM with ref link and Ill toss coin ;D
Belive me or not I never open this site and dont know what is all about......
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