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Hello everyone, I posted my IndieGOGO project on Friday and it's now Monday and the project doesn't appear to show up on the IndieGOGO search. Does anyone have any idea why? We're new to IndieGOGO, when we did a project on Kickstarter it showed up right away in searches and also on google image searches.

The Project is Here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/c...wag/x/10290495

Thanks for any help!

I've figured it out. It seems like Indie doesn't push your campaigns or allow it to be searched like Kickstarter does. They call it the IndieGOGO Factor. Not sure how this would affect google rankings since when we used Kickstarter it was also showing up on google searches.

Official Response:

https://support.indiegogo.com/hc/en-us/articles/527476

Advice on how to push your ranking higher:

http://www.crowdcrux.com/hacking-indiegogos-gogofactor/

Hope this will help other people!

-dx

That happened to me when I tried using indiegogo too

You will need enough traffic before it shows. I am promoting http://bit.do/4Drc- http://bit.do/bidadrive , Share the good news

Same thing happened to our project, and on the same dates as yours, curiously enough.

Indiegogo is very careful NOT to say in plain English that they will HIDE your project from searches until you hit some magical Gogofactor level. I was getting frustrated with how evasive their Customer Happiness rep was so I explicitly asked, "TRUE or FALSE: Indiegogo will not return a new project in search results until the project has reached an undisclosed level of Gogofactor."

The rep answered, "I thought I had answered that."

All they will say is that your Gogofactor affects "searchability". Although semantically speaking the ability to search for a project AT ALL could be called searchability, I'm confident any reasonable person would interpret searchability to mean how high or low in the search results a project can be found.

So, Indiegogo becomes nothing but a hidden landing page for your new project. And they still charge you 9% for the privilege of being hidden from searches. I can't imagine how this tactic profits Indiegogo.

Also, the vague description of the Gogofactor seems equally counterproductive. The whole point of managing by metrics is to let people know exactly what actions result in a specific level of benefit so they can consciously do what brings benefit. With the Gogofactor you can promote the heck out of your project but never know if your press releases, tweets, Facebook updates, or direct emails helped at all or to what amount.

Just infuriating.

Marcel Paüer, Providence RI USA

Did not know that, interesting. They should give a better and more transparent answer than that.

Wish I could have found this site b4 signing up with indiegogo, can't believe that their able to continue for what it clearly not the benefit of small folk seeking funding .
Not sure what their mission was originally but I can't believe it they could have improved it over the many years in existance, hopefully they will delete my account I don't want to raise money through them.

OK, was wondering why I was having the same trouble. Very disappointing.

Even I faced this same issue with my campaign.

‘Windows and doors of Europe’ project is a celebration of culture, art and the people behind it. It is a visual documentation of the architecture of several Windows and doors across several European cities. I am passionate about sharing the charm of these beautiful creations and it’s array of vividness with the wider community.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wind ... rt-in-book

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"Also, the vague description of the Gogofactor seems equally counterproductive. The whole point of managing by metrics is to let people know exactly what actions result in a specific level of benefit so they can consciously do what brings benefit. With the Gogofactor you can promote the heck out of your project but never know if your press releases, tweets, Facebook updates, or direct emails helped at all or to what amount."

I put together this article a little ways back on GoGoFactor that might be helpful? http://www.crowdcrux.com/hacking-indiegogos-gogofactor/