HI Kristi

 

Thanks for your message.

As I wrote my interest is in finding product and arttwork, on 'Rosity, largely the same, so that newer and less well off vendors who can't really afford much in the way of an advertising budget can have their work found.

I know there's no such thing as "perfect" search and that there's no way of preventing someone from "gaming" the system so that their product (s) always get a high return ranking.  If there was I'm sure Google would have got thier paws on it or developed it by now.

From a customer perspective I'd like to see "all in one" character packaging discouraged as far too often I find some part of the package be it clothing, hair or a pair of shoes that would work with what I'm doing but end up not purchasing because, for one reason or other, I'm not interested in the character model itself. 

On a personal level there are two vendors, both of whom make frequent appearences as Vendor of the Month because of that and a couple of other thing, who I won' t purchase from on the general principle that I feel they're gaming the system.  I've no proof they are mind you but I can't escape the feeling that showing up on just too many search results that may have little or nothing to do with what I entered makes no sense other than they've included just about everything in the description/jkeywords/tags to ensure that it happens that way.  Both of whom do a lot of, or almost exclusively, "all in one" character packaging.

That's no flame bait, it's an observation and if they can get away with that they way things work right now more power to them.

To me a creative community thrives when there are a wide variety of choices and differences that one can look at and learn from. When that's not present the community suffers, including the successful vendors.

Good luck with improving the search function and criteria, I mean that, because we all will benefit if product is easier to find.

Happy Rendering

ttfn

John

P.S. Enjoy what's left of the weekend!