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wan2makemoney · May 5th, 2008

I have been on cafepress for about a month now. I opened a premium shop and so far I have not received any sales. I know they say it can take awhile and thats ok. But when I try to search for my products they don't come up. I have tried searching the exact title of the t-shirt and I'm not comming up. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

I know that the majority of most peoples sales are from the market place so if i'm not in the market place how am I ever going to make sales

perrolocodesigns · May 6th, 2008

Did you put tags on your designs when you uploaded them to CP? The marketplace search is performed using the image tags.

wan2makemoney · May 6th, 2008

Tags? What kind of tags?

perrolocodesigns · May 7th, 2008

Descriptive tags that the search feature keys on. Go to your images and click on Add/Delete tags for an image. Enter words that your potential customers might search for.

wan2makemoney · May 7th, 2008

thanks a ton. I have one more question if you don't mind. Does it matter how many tags I add? I have a ton of tags i would like to add in, so is it the more the merrirer? I once heard that no matter how many tags you enter the search engines really only pick up the first 10 or so. Is that true?

perrolocodesigns · May 8th, 2008

Not sure. I have heard some say "less is more" and others hold that you should use the maximum CP allows. There is a limit and the site won't let you add more than the limit. I'm thinking 20 may be the limit.