I’m very new with 3D Hubs, so bear with me, but is it really primarily based on geographic location in terms of how you show up in search results? Rather, more to the point - how do you ensure that your hub shows up when people search? Is the priority of ranking based on location, then capabilities like printer/ material, etc.? If so, could I setup another hub that’s located in another location and ship only to expand service areas? If not, I have a friend in Cali that could “take the orders”…just wanted to start a thread on this and see what the policies/ etiquettes are, thanks!
I would -highly- advise you do not add additional hubs or “take the orders” hubs… you will likely get -all- of your hubs banned/shutdown. Also parts of Cali is already overloaded with hubs vs print orders right now as it is (I am a Cali Hub) and I sorta take offence to you trying to take my territory. Generally when customers are searching they are shown results within like 250mile+ radius to them sorted by hub score (calculated by customer feedback on orders). The customer can choose to narrow the range of their search or sort by lowest/highest prices as well as printing abilities (only Show HD Hubs for example is one). Also not everyone wants shipped prints, some of my customers like to pick up (some drive almost 45min to pick up prints). Considering someone who does not care if their prints are shipped they will probably open their search to whole country, and sort by price and Hub score.
Best way to show up in results is… Good score (feedback), competitive prices, fast turn around time, fast response time. Adding multiple hubs is -not- the way to do it, not to mention if someone orders from your “fake” Cali Hub then gets tracking information for a package coming from the east coast they could report you for fake location.
