When I first created a profile on Houzz it was a platform for home inspiration, not shopping for product. Houzz is slowly becoming an e-commerce amazon frenzy combined with (a paid for advertising platform for trades), instead of backing the designers who had helped to build their platform through our paid advertising and our published work to their website. If a client came to me with a product they found off Houzz, who am I to stop them from buying it? But I do think it's important to educate them of these unethical issues. because that is just our nature), and these photoes. And now, without previous knowledge of this tactic, our photos are being tagged with knockoff products that Houzz is selling that Houzz is profiting off of, and that we have zero control over if the product tagged in our photo is right for the person buying it (and yes we do care. We have clients who have paid us for this very specific design. Guys, I get it, we're all looking for a good deal (myself included) but this is borderline copyright infringement and just flat out scheme'y'. And by our viewers clicking through to Houzz, only helped Houzz climb the Google SEO ladder, and pushed our own websites SEO down. They were actually hurting our SEO because they are backlinks to Houzz, meanwhile taking our viewers off our website, and with the attention span we all have these days, who knows if they are ever to return back to our website to read about our services. Those badges we were all linking to our website weren't doing us any good. It all really started to feel like one big popularity contest. which is why Houzz wanted us to be 'tagging' our photos with key words for Houzz when we uploaded project photos so that they could be found and saved to boards, but also behind the scenes only helped Houzz's SEO. those reviews Houzz pushed us all so hard to get (okay so the "Best of Houzz for customer service" makes sense, kind of) and the "Best of Houzz In Design" was solely based off of how many times viewers had saved my project photos to their inspiration boards that I had uploaded to Houzz. These awards were solely based off of reviews my clients had left me.
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