your descriptions suck

what does this image look like:



i see a green mermaid drawing in crayon my 3 yr old nephew drew with a dream bubble over her head for words.

but clearly thats not what your image is...

what if it said "this great customizable card has a blue-green background with a white center for your important information framed by the silhouette of a mermaid & moon in black, some white sun rays, stars and cloud. Perfect for a save the date card or a pool party invitation."


search engines cannot SEE your image you have to describe it like you were telling someone on the phone what it looked like

I don't know where you got that information, but it isn't true. Google can certainly see my product descriptions. If I search on language that is in my description and not in my key words Google finds my product. Search engines, especially Google, have a strong preference for normal sentence structure over just a list of tags. The single most important thing is the product title. Search engines put a lot of importance on the page title, and Zazzle makes your product title the page title. The product description is far more important to the search engine than a keyword list in the form of tags. While a list of a mere 20 words isn't going to be considered "key word stuffing" this piece nonetheless explains the preference for normal text. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66358

Certainly you have your own experience and your own views, but statements such as "They are hidden from search engines." are just not true. My own description appears on every product page. When I "View Source" any of my product pages I see that my own product description appears higher up on the page than the generic description. Zazzle does this placement because of the importance of the description to search engines. I can't speak to what your experiments have done for you. I can speak for my own experience as well as my familiarity with Google Webmaster.

hello people

Thanks for your advice i am very glad you looked at my page.
I can see what you ar saying, but my main problem is, that my native language is not english, and i have a hard time describing the product. So i write as less as possible.
But your absolutely right i will improve this section.

Hi DNW_WeddingDesigns thanks for taking your time and looking at my page, but of course it is possible to customize every product. I just asked a friend to try it and it is working.

I was talking about easier customization with the template feature. You have not checked the template boxes and place information into them.

Take a look at this particular postcard of yours.

If I want to customize it, I have to delete "Your Text Here" and add my own, choose a font style and color, instead of just replacing what you could have put in for an example for me. The way you have it setup, looks as if I could just type in my text in the template editing box, but I can't.

Look at my postcard and see how you can simply replace what I've added in the boxes with your own words. I can't do that with yours. Mine is set up in an easier way with templates for the customer to use. It saves more time. If a customer likes the style, size and color of font/text on mine, they only have to replace my example information with their own....no need to search for any other style of text that may or may not fit properly.

When it comes to "Add Your Photo Here", it may be best to use a Zazzle photo template or one of your own photo templates, rather than have text in that area. That way the customer can simply replace that one with their own photo. They can click on the button to add images, but there's just no example of how it will look in advance.

I hope that I've explained it all in a better way for you. Sometimes I confuse myself, which means I confuse others.

An extra couple of notes - The butterflies on your art or in tags/descriptions. You should change "Butterflys" to "Butterflies" for the plural form...meaning more than one butterfly.
I read that English is not your first language, so I'm sure there will be some mistakes. I just wanted to add that to help. If you can get someone else to help out, that would be a thing for you.

When you want to reply to a particular person on the forum with a quote, click on the two little gold Xs just above that person's comment. The comment will open in a new area, and you can post your reply below it. That will keep you from having to list each of us individually within one post.

Again...good luck.

Hi DNW_WeddingDesigns,

No, we don't have to delete "Your Text Here', we can customise it if we want to. I had no problem customising the OPs postcard at all. If you're having problems customising it, it's probably because you haven't selected the "your text here" field first. If you click on it first, then hit the "change text" button, you'll see that it does change.

Cheers.

This is what people are trying to explain to you.

The first image is your beautiful mermaid, you have the customize button, but that requires the customer to open the design field. A place some customers may get lost in and give up. Equaling no sale for you.

The bottom image is one of my invitations, with the text template used. The customer simply changes the text in the box on the right and they are done. simple and easy, and customers are more likely to buy something they don't have to do too much to. The easier you make it for them, the more likely they are to buy. Simple fact.



hope that helps!

Tabz
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WOW . . . I hope you have helped i_dentity . . . I know for a fact you have helped ME!

I never considered using templates this way as I figured the "customize it" button would give the customer all the options they needed. But I can see how it would be confusing with the entire design field visible.

Thanks, everyone, for the great information.

*** oh, boy ... do I ever have a LOT of work to do now! ***

Judi

[quote=gothicbusiness]This is what people are trying to explain to you.

The first image is your beautiful mermaid, you have the customize button, but that requires the customer to open the design field. A place some customers may get lost in and give up. Equaling no sale for you.

The bottom image is one of my invitations, with the text template used. The customer simply changes the text in the box on the right and they are done. simple and easy, and customers are more likely to buy something they don't have to do too much to. The easier you make it for them, the more likely they are to buy. Simple fact.



hope that helps!

Hi gothic

okay now i got it, i didnt know that this makes such a difference. But yes in future i will do it this way, but yes to change all the old stuff this will take months :/ .
Thank you very much