How to TAG BETTER on Redbubble, Teepublic - POD upload websites

[@Jarbas.Travels]

Guys if you wanna see the tags for a design on Red bubble, you don't need to actually click on the design. You can just click on the little i on the bottom left of said design and the tags will come up. That way you can stay on the same page and see tags for different products without going back and forth ;)

[@Quizaaah]

law it thanx! is there an easy way to copy others tags? @Jarbas Saint-Claire

[@dianebonneau2350]

great tip. thanks

[@baslielalene8528]

Very helpful Zen Thank you.

[@jn2192]

Thank you, very much . Any thoughts about titles? Looking forward for next tips

[@manish99213]

Thank you, found this video to be very helpful

[@doreengayer5723]

Another excellent highly informative video!

[@nislamnur]

That's amazing, Thank you for your helpful video.

[@jamiesehancy4360]

Hi Zen, as always, thanks so much. These are great tips. At the moment, I'm uploading a design to both TeePublic and Redbubble. I just noticed that Redbubble is recommending 15 tags now (right on the upload form). I'd been uploading 25 tags according to your advice to "split the difference" between 15 (what a lot of bloggers recommend) and 50 (which Redbubble actually allows). If Redbubble's recommendation to only upload 15 tags is new, I suspect they're trying to align it with TeePublic, which as you know they own and has a hard limit of 15. Anyway, my question... If I'm uploading the same design to both platforms at relatively the same time, and I'm going to upload 15 tags to each platform, would it make sense to use all of the same 15 tags for both, assuming they're the "best" 15 tags, or should I maybe use at least two or three or five different ones on each platform? What do you do in this case? Thanks in advance... ☮️ Peace... Jamiese

[@zenwatercooler]

That's a great question and I don't think there is one stock answer. It would depend on the quality of the tags (in my opinion). So if you think that 15 tags casts a wide enough net that most searches would include those words... then I agree with your strategy!

[@rashannike2087]

Great video, I learnt heaps. Thank you.

[@lindatier2412]

First off, I'm a total novice to the POD concept and to the far, far left on the learning curve. Recently, I stumbled across your across your channel. I immediately recognized that your content was both cogent and well-produced, so kudos to you. Yes, I've already subscribed and have left likes. Anyway, while browsing some Public Domain websites for ideas, I stumbled across of some dartboards. Our grandson's birthday is coming up and I can make him a t-shirt. Why not present it to the rest of the public? Well hell. don't know squat about the game, so went on Reddit and asked in that subgroup. In no time at all, I had some keyword suggestions. When googling suggestions, there were a good handful POD sellers that showed up on the very FIRST page. BTW the google glossary proved helpful I've learned a lot (alas, but have not yet totally assimilated) by following Zen. Beholden to you, Zen, for sharing your knowledge. I, too, am a strong proponent for paying it... eta: I sure am hopin' that YT notifies when content is added in the comment sections.

[@zenwatercooler]

I appreciate the feedback! I love making clothes for friends and family - that is awesome! Thank you for taking the time, welcome aboard!

[@saraphicseer5982]

only found this two years later and was wondering if they still hold true? i saw another youtube advocate FOR SENTENCES in tags...

[@zenwatercooler]

This is probably a better video on tagging - hopefully this helps! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnXdcpV-hcqssLc

[@saraphicseer5982]

ACES! thank you so much for your reply and your resources...they're amazing.

[@therapy4everybody]

How does search works in terms of product title or description vs. tags? I see you repeat words in tags that are also in the title. Do tags get priority in search algorithms? What about words in the description?

[@zenwatercooler]

Yes that is a great question - big picture, tags are a bit of a mystery (because only Redbubble truly knows which tags work and how). That having been said - I've repeated words in the title and heard peple say "don't do that" - but I've gotten sales so I will keep doing it anyway.

[@lesterdealwis2712]

Do we need to trademark check the tags?

[@fenn-tech-deals]

Think I found the reason my account got suspended on red bubble, very informative 👍

[@jawadahmed8956]

Hi I want to ask what kind of design i upload when starting on redbubble trending or evergreen?

[@zenwatercooler]

I personally try for evergreen stuff but if you know alot about trends, that can be good too!

[@theColdFramer]

Question - If designing say a shirt I see all over sellers adding in t-shirt into their tags ie, dog t-shirt - Is this recommended as it looks like Google grabs an indexes the tag page...or is just dog good enough...as it makes me think that same design on say a mug would need to be a separate design just to add dog mug as a tag - or am I overthinking this?

[@zenwatercooler]

Yikes that is a big question - there are hours and hours of SEO deep dives so I'll try to answer it really short (apologies to computer nerds everywhere). Google will look at the whole web page (featuring your dog image and text... the tags) and then when people Google a phrase, and they click on your result, that "maps" a win. So if you have a tag "dog t-shirt" and Joe Schmoe Googles that and then CLICKS ON YOUR LINK - that is a "win" and it moves up in the Google rank by a tiny bit. So I WOULD recommend putting in "dog t-shirt" and "dog" as 2 tags because there is a chance that someone is searching for that specific tag.

[@theColdFramer]

@@zenwatercooler thanks that’s what I was thinking so then technically a mug with the same design would actually be better as a separate RB design since I’d be tagging for mug “wins” as your putting it

[@Jectob]

Thank you so much. Its video help me

[@LearnGermanwithMarzipanfrau]

Thank you for this interesting video. :)

[@megitsune66]

I saw some seller using tags like this for example: dog lover, dog lover dog love dog lover dog lover dog lover dog lover dog lover, dog mom- They repeat words like that like one sentence, and i saw this so many times in trending topics. They always appear on the 1st page or 1st row.. is that recommended??

[@Jivolt]

Never ever ever ever do that. Tag spamming never works and Redbubble will throw those way down the search results.

[@huntrrams]

DO NOT DO THIS! The algorithm will find out you’re spamming and looks bad for the artist and their store.

[@Ra_Nikolaev]

Thank you from Russia for the quality information. I wish you success

[@maispaletes]

Hi, thank you so much for all your videos :) I have a question; how many collections should we have, is there a number?

[@zenwatercooler]

My personal opinion - aim for 10 collectictions, 50 in each collection to start. Some people do more - it is ultimately up to you!

[@maispaletes]

@@zenwatercooler many thanks for your answer ;) Do you know if it's problematic to repeat descriptions? Because when you have the same design in several colors.... how to manage that? Thank you from Portugal ;)

[@hijuliee7015]

Thanks great tips!

[@twotwinningcavs]

Sad that you can’t see tags on the mobile app

[@poly3436]

Thank you for the great video, btw, i also encounter other redbubble youtuber that the more tags you put on your uploads the less chances it will show up because of the redbubble algorithms or something. And they recommend just 10 to 20 tags as much as possible. What do you think of that? I would highly appreciate your reply, thanks😊

[@zenwatercooler]

Yes it is a good question - we don’t really know for sure since Redbubble does not share the information so I can’t say the other KZbinr is wrong. I can only say that I have used lots of tags and then searched by those tags as a signed out user - and the designs do come up.

[@poly3436]

@@zenwatercooler thanks, i also notice that some of the top searches has a lot of tags.

[@angelbeing2240]

@@zenwatercooler As I read Redbubble blog it mentioned information as follows: "Don't Use Too Many On Redbubble you can add up to 50 tags to any artwork. Try and aim for at least 3 - 5 tags, with 10 being a good chunky amount". How many tags do you use? Please reply.

[@zenwatercooler]

@@angelbeing2240 Yes it is a good question - I can't say that the Redbubble blog is wrong - I would wonder why we CAN put in up to 50 tags but we "aren't supposed to". I would guess (and it is only a guess) that they don't want tag spamming (just putting everything and anything in there as a tag). So I will add the caveat that when I say "use a lot of tags" - I am saying use a lot of meaningful, accurate tags. I have used lots of tags and then searched by those tags as a signed out user - and the designs do come up.

[@angelbeing2240]

@@zenwatercooler Awesome! got it, you mean using lot of tags related to the niche or design that we create. Thanks for quick reply ☺️

[@pushismano77]

Tags is not fun 😀, it's harder when english is not your native language.

[@doc3119]

I use Merch Titans for my tags for Redbubble

[@Benlogy7]

@@doc3119 is it helping you to sell

[@altair_ezio01]

👍

[@mohammedtoufik3373]

using a single word in tags will not be a bad idea every single word become a trademark last days

[@zenwatercooler]

It certainly seems to be getting crazy how many "regular" words are being trademarked!

[@Moodboard39]

Why people obsessed with cats ?