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Other ways of making money => Print on Demand Forum => Topic started by: fieldsphotos on January 18, 2015, 11:34

Title: Zazzle is making a major change to their marketplace search
Post by: fieldsphotos on January 18, 2015, 11:34

http://forum.zazzle.com/news/improvements_to_marketplace_search_on_zazzle (http://forum.zazzle.com/news/improvements_to_marketplace_search_on_zazzle)

Looks like they are trying to clean up the marketplace.   If your item has had sales, it will remain in the marketplace.    For items without sales, if the item also hasn't had any views in the last 6 months, it will be removed from the marketplace search.  It will still reside in your store (they won't be deleted) however any traffic will now have to be driven to it by you.   

Views of your own product do count towards the overall views, so I suppose if you like to design your Christmas stuff in the spring, then you could manually keep them in the marketplace yourself for the Christmas season.   

Also, updating the keywords, or title descriptions will also reset the clock on unsold items. 

Thought I would let you guys know, since I know there are some Zazzlers here who may not follow the Zazzle forums.  This is supposed to be implemented next week. 

I don't do a lot of seasonal stuff, so I have mixed feelings about this.  Maybe my new designs will have less competition, but I do have several pages of unviewed products that will disappear from the marketplace. 

Title: Re: Zazzle is making a major change to their marketplace search
Post by: Painter on January 18, 2015, 14:56

Thanks for the information, I guess that is good if you are new there like me. But if you do not get sales, you kind of need to reactivate your old stuff, seems they want you to be active there.