Stephen Mitchell

The biggest advantage of adding ‘tags’ or ‘tagging’ your uploads to RedBubble is that you can group together certain types of photographs.
ie. Landscape, Water Colour, Cartoons, Etc.

To show you how this helps me, for the past three hours (between watching some television) I have been adding specific tags to my images.

Consequently, I now have these ‘Series’ of related images.

1. Flowering Bulbs
2. Kangaroo Island, April 2007
3. Kangaroo Island, April 2007
4. FlickrSA
5. Landscape
6. Architecture, Abstract
7. Farm Machinery
8. Beach, Kangaroo Island

As you can see, tagging is important to get noticed. So here are a few ways to tag your work:

1. Don’t put in commas ( , )—just leave a space between each word. RB put the comma’s in automatically.

2. If you feel comfortable with worldwide recognition, Add your name. Either as separate words or conjoined. To join them, use an underscore and no spaces.
ie. Stephen_Mitchell
Otherwise, add your avatar.

2. The style of the image:
ie. black_and_white pens pencil isograph penmanship
... and whatever else best describes the style of your work.

3. Location.
There are a lot of people on RB (and around the Internet) who’d probably love to discover these places or know of them. So add words that tell us where you were—the country, the town, even the railway station, etc.

4. Use descriptors.
Words that describe your emotions, the weather, the colour, the texture of the objects in the photograph.

All these tags help your work to get noticed.
There maybe someone looking for a rainy afternoon on a railway station drawn with isograph pens ;) or wanting a computer wallpaper that’s vibrant red with bubbles. So those words are what they will search on, either here or on Google.

Happy tagging!