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If you search RedBubble for flower, all the works with ‘flower’ as a tag will come up. Search for poppy flower and you will see works with both ‘poppy’ and ‘flower’ as tags.

In essence, tags are key words which describe your work. Are you unsure of which tags to use? Here are some ideas to get you started

1. One or two main colours from the image
2. Medium (painting, photography, sketch, vector)
3. Other classifying words (portrait, seascape, floral)
4. Main objects in the image (bike, woman, ocean)
5. Words that you instantly think of when looking at your work (whimsical, enchanted, sorrow)

With so many images on RedBubble, helping people find your work is important. RedBubble’s search engine relies heavily on tags, so put some thought into yours.

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Some good tags for this image: beige, red, photography, commercial, car, boots, fashion

You’ll notice that all those tags obviously relate to the image. And that while I could have kept going with bag, number plate, numbers, headlight, hand, pole, alley, etc those words don’t describe main parts of the image. So they are best left out.

If I was a buyer searching for an image of a “bag” or an “alley” and got this, I’d be pretty disappointed. People don’t want to wade through pages and pages of “nearly” what they want.

So the rule of thumb is to tag your work with several relevant words which best describe your image.

That’s helps people browsing RedBubble to find what they are looking to buy.

Jo