I've never tested it, but someone told me that hidden does indeed cause an empty link, and what you really need to do is to set those products to Direct Only.

Sweet Rascal and Sensato... this information is gold for me. Thank you. I've been ordering, examining, remaking, then deleting. I noticed that I did screw up my placement on Zazzle and on Google. That makes sense. I had an envelope with fairies and a sepia background that was originally well placed on Zazzle... but when I ordered it I decided to noodle with it and deleted the original. Now it's in nowhere land. Darn.

OK. I'll stop doing that now. It's good to know about the Direct Only.

I wish I knew of a way to post for sale, without actually posting it... just so I could check it out and see if I really did everything right... like for invitations. Sometimes I miss adding a text field, or I think of something else. I need to find out about how to do the Direct Sale. That is probably the answer to this?

Thanks to everyone who read this thread and visited my store. I've realized in the last couple of days how valuable our community is, how important community support is in ranking.

I'm continually amazed by the artists. My own favorite products are the ones where I take the time and create something new out of old paintings or drawings. That's a blast.

I am an artist. But since what I mostly do is ceramics and sculpture, that doesn't quite fit here. You can't sell a life-sized self-portrait torso with a lion head here!

Thanks again.

Oh, btw, about the messenger bag. That Mother's Day sale with 50% off bags was great. Came out to a bit over $40. Look for another one of those.

Thank you... this info comes in handy... making products direct... and hiding a product til I know I'm satisfied with it. Knowing this has made creating products much less stressful. Especially invitations.

In my experience, hidden hides them just about everywhere, except to you, when you are logged into your account, at which point they will show to you in your store and in your account, but not in the MP (nor in any external site).

I wish it would hide them in my store too, made a few mistakes when I went to select something to promote and grabbed the wrong one. Now I only choose what to promote from within my account, as at least that has the symbol to show what is hidden.

Yeah, I agree. I am now having that problem, too! I was wondering why I had something listed twice. Hmmmm. One must be hidden.

Great idea bkmuir I'm going to do that for all my direct only products.

Yes, but at least they'll be in one place & not cluttering up the rest of my categories. It just looks so messy having them mixed up with my active products, even if only I can see them. I'm a bit of a neat freak

Although finding them all is going to take some time - it looks like I'll have to go through all my products. Unless there's a way to just view the 'direct only' products in my account area, separately from everything else? (if not, that would be a nice feature to have...)

In View your Products, you can see the Direct Only under Private, Right? And they don't show up in the store? Just checking... since I'm new, it's all new to me.

Sounds like I ought to put hidden products in a folder right away since I only started creating this week. Thanks for the tips.