I just donated two in your name in case you are unable.
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It’s harder starting later yes but it’s far from a zero sum game though, it’s not like there is one pie to be shared - people can just make more pie.
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I noticed a drop in April, but not as massive as some if the ones mentioned here. My boosts actually have increased over April and May on average.
What I am noticing though is that my newer models just get no traction, they are my usual thing, but just get no steam from the start. I may have to take @benjaminkott ‘s advice and investigate my SEO, I don’t really know what I’m supposed to be doing there though I just guess it might need to change
Someone above mentioned that we are at the ceiling for reward handouts and they might need to lower them, yet they still dish out thousands to people pumping AI junk into competitions and skedaddling with their points til the next spam session…
I’d suggest they start there…
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Still trying to wrap my head around SEO optimization — I feel like I’m just guessing with tags right now. If any SEO pros are lurking around here, I’d really appreciate a quick crash course or some pointers!
On a separate note, regarding the MakerWorld points pot: I assume there’s a set annual budget for these incentives, which might shrink over time since the initial goal was to attract designers and get more models on the platform.
That said, it would be really interesting to understand the ROI from Bambu Lab’s perspective. For example, let’s say a model costs about £5 in filament to print and has over 5,000 downloads. If even just 25% of those prints used Bambu filament (which I suspect is a conservative estimate), that’s potentially £6,250 in filament sales that might not have happened otherwise.
Then there’s the Creator Program — with around a 10% commission rate (depending on the Maker Supply part), if a designer earns £100, Bambu makes around £900. These are just ballpark figures, but it seems to me like the program is self-sustaining at current incentive levels and generates Makerworld more than it costs them. Of course, this is just my personal take based on what I’ve seen as a user. I don’t know the internal workings of MakerWorld or how Bambu Lab manages the program, so I could be completely off — take it with a grain of salt.
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They have said in the past that tailoring the tags to more closely to the title, being specific and frugal helps.
How much and to what degree, they didn’t share.
They implied that including irrelevant tags (that do not appear in the title or body) would harm your ranking and further suggested abuse if such could tank it.
My thoughts on the subject as provided above.
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Posted long time ago… How i believe boost system should also work… people should get boosts on say percentage they… spend… so say 1% every £100 spent would get boost to hand out, then everything is transparent. and self funded.
1% is like 20cent on on $20 filament
Sure people not buying bambulab stuff wont get boosts but they already not funding makerworld
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isn’t that a seasonal thing?, I mean have been on other 3d models sites to for years, when going into the summer months (nothern hemisphere) activity drops significantly , and picks up when all the " festivity months" begin again in September (halloween, thanksgiving, x-mas, new year , easter etc) , 3d printing is a “indoor” hobby so it kinda makes sense the “hobby” part of 3d printing aka printing fun things from makerworld drops, just look at the popular searches it becomes very random again ( only peaks when there is a hype for something , like now the release of the nintendo swith 2 " so all the models that are not related to hype or trend will loose popularity for a while
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