Can You Make Money on Redbubble With No External Traffic?

Redbubble is a great platform to start selling print-on-demand products with your art design without spending a cent. Similar to other marketplaces like Society6 and Etsy, Redbubble has a powerful search engine that promotes products according to customers’ researches. It also suggests new objects based on their previews like and purchases.

As a seller, how can you take advantage of the Redbubble search engine to sell your merchandise without spending extra time promoting them on several social media platforms?

Searching for what’s trending

The first step to drive Redbubble’s traffic to your products is to figure out what’s trending on the platform at the moment. You can easily find it out by opening Redbubble and clicking on its search bar area.

The dropdown menu will give you two crucial pieces of information: the three top trending searches and popular merchandise. Just with these two insights, you can learn what people are looking for the most in terms of words and which products are selling the most. Usually, stickers are a best seller, but since the Covid-19 hit, masks are doing very well.

Using the search bar, you can browse through different categories of products and organize the results by trending, best selling, newest, and most relevant. What matters to you right now are the trending products, if you want to jump into a seasonal sale, or the best selling ones to create evergreen goods to sell all year-round.

Another way to discover what people are searching for daily is BubbleTrends. The website offers the chance to find the most popular words of the present day and the number of results associated with that query.

Similar to BubbleTrends is Redbubble Popular Tags. For every tag, you can see its position in the chart, the performances, and the number of results associated with it.

All you have to do now is collect the information relevant to your search based on your artwork type. Seek for keywords trending but with low competition and find which products combined with them have the best chances to sell.

Keywords and tag for the design

Create the design, upload it, and put it on as many products as possible. Make sure it looks perfect on every available merchandise. Write a proper title that briefly describes the design, add a description that can be the title itself, or add some extra information about the illustration’s idea.

Lastly, choose the tags for your work carefully. You can use around 15 keywords, someone says up to 50, to drive traffic to your drawing.

How can you find relevant and popular tags for your work?

• Option 1: see what similar successful designs have already used. Once you find the picture, click on the little “i” icon to see the tags.
• Option 2: select the main keyword and use the Redbubble Tag Generator by Merch Titans Automation.
• Option 3: go back to the search bar and type the first keyword. Once the results appear, see on the bar above the products all the related keywords, copy and paste them into your Tag area.

Does it work?

I started my Redbubble shop as an experiment; I must admit that I shared a couple of products on Twitter but had nothing in return. My Twitter account is a sort of personal+business account where I also share my Medium stories. Rather than that, I have no social media account dedicated to my store.

The results of my work, started in late September/early October, are 101 unique visitors on the 30th of November, which translates into 5 sales of 9 products. It didn’t make me rich, but that’s not the sole purpose of the test.

In conclusion, you can make sales without investing in social media platforms, advertisements, or other external traffic. To do so, you must understand what’s trending, what people want to buy, and use SEO properly to make your products easy to find.