Zazzler's if you haven't seen this yet take a look https://community.zazzle.com/t5/technical-issues/what-does-it-mean-when-a-store-page-has-no-index-in-the-source/m-p/162468

This situation presents me as your mentor with a huge dilemma.

Should I continue to encourage you to keep churning out products focusing on niches, seo, and great design when there is a chance your store is or will be hidden from Google and/or the Zazzle marketplace itself?

Should the focus be more on marketing ... other PODS, alternative income streams?

Up till recently 'fairly passively' I have been generating around $5000 a month on Zazzle, but I can see that dropping pretty rapidly with lack of activity and the recent development of an 'invisibility cloak' for want of a better expression.

I see no point in adding 'many more' products to Zazzle beyond what is needed to keep the account active as all efforts should perhaps now be focused on 'self marketing' of those products I already have.

How do you feel about how you might address this latest challenge. Do you have a 'no index tag' on your store and product pages?

How to check for a no index tag

1.Right click on your public store page

2. Select Products Tab

3. Select 'View Page Source'.

4. Around line 140 you might see this text (hopefully you won't!)

And that's it!

So what to do?

I do feel like it's kinda pointless for those of us with these 'no index' tags  plugging away as we always have done. Zazzle will not confirm or deny if this is harmful but technical Zazzlers appear to think it is resulting in us being 'invisible' to Google. 

• We can wait it out? 
• We can see if it reverts back to being visible
• We can go all out with self-marketing

Or ... 

Let me know!

Meanwhile in Sept. I can create materials focused on marketing if that's what you'd like to see?

Let me know your thoughts.