Embedding Nifty-generated pages in your WordPress, Blogger or Weebly blogs

Here’s a slideshow of some Mother’s Day gifts and cards from Zazzle. It was made in Nifty and then embedded in an iframe here. Also works on Blogger and Weebly blogs (click for examples). See the end for the code used.

Note that you need a self-hosted WordPress site. You can’t do this on the free wordpress.com ones because they don’t allow iframes, as used in this technique.

See the code by clicking the button

Note that

  • for Weebly, a width of 98% works best
  • for Society6 slideshows, use a height of 1050
  • for Zazzle slideshows, use a height of 1100

Here’s a Nifty Society6 embedded slideshow so you can compare to Nifty’s Zazzle slideshow above:

Again, tap/click the button to see the code.

New page nav for Nifty’s Zazzle Product Grid Sharer

Hot on the heels of doing this for the Society6 equivalent, we’ve now done this for the Nifty Zazzle Product Grid Sharer page.

We’ve added a forward and back button to allow your visitors to move through the pages of results returned by Zazzle.

With this simple addition, you get even more engagement from the people you share your product grids with. Keeping them looking at your designs for longer is a good thing.

Why? It’s because the longer they look, the more their engagement and trust builds up. And that leads to more sales in the long run, no bad thing!

Here’s what the new page nav buttons look like:

try it here

Nifty Page Sharer tweaks

We’ve spent some time improving the slideshow and product grid page sharing tools for Zazzle. The improvements are to do with what gets displayed on social media when you share.

Here’s a comparison of what you get when you share a slideshow on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest:

A slideshow shared on Facebook tap/click to see

how it appears on Twitter tap/click to see

what it looks like on Pinterest tap/click to see

Even though they’re small tweaks, they should help with increasing the engagement you get from your followers. And more engagement means your slideshow will be looked at more, which will give you even more engagement. Win, win, win!

click this to try the slideshow for yourself

Solved: The trouble with Pinning from Zazzle

Zazzle uses its own internal link shortener when you share from product pages. It includes your referral id (as long as you were logged in at the time) BUT no tracking code.

Now that Pinterest doesn’t let you edit links, you can’t add a tracking code after pinning. How do you get round that?

Making sure pins include your tracking code

Seriously, the best thing you can do if you want to do it manually, is to use Nifty’s individual product sharer to pin once or twice a week from your new products.

Your referral id and the tracking code you give will be used on the links. Easy peasy.

Of course, without a subscription, our referral id will be used half the time. This is the 50/50 referral sharing you might have heard about. It’s a very common way to let people try tools without any outlay, making it risk free while still letting people get rewarded for their effort.

How can I make sure I don’t lose out?

The simple solution so you don’t lose out is to Pin twice as many or even more, including pinning the work of other artists you like. It’s extremely fast and easy, so pinning twice as many takes much, much less than half the time.

And that frees you up to get back to creating new designs in a flash 😎

Following this approach will also give your Pinterest a boost. Why? Because Pinterest loves you to pin lots and your followers, clicks and saves/repins will grow even faster as a result.

Keeping your Pinterest in their good books

Of course, you have to interact with Pinterest in other ways to keep your account in their good books. Do this by following others and repin things you like. Crafts and how-to’s are good for this.

Try for yourself to see how easy it is by following this link to Nifty