How is it chosen? It’s always the same image. Mine’s been the same since they rolled out the custom home page but it’s not reflective at all of my style/niche. The purple & green polka dots is an image I have used on a total of just 5 products, only one of which has ever sold (a tote bag back in May of 2021.) I really dislike this image being used to represent my store and am wondering why on earth it is the one that was chosen. What algorithm is deciding this and is there anything we can do on our ends to influence what is used here?
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Good question. Mine is at least one of my popular home decor designs, but if I could choose I would have picked one of my mandala designs.
I second that, my main store also has a picture that doesn’t really represent my store or main niche.
This is interesting. I never saw my shops recommended for me so I don’t even know what pic is chosen for them; would be nice to know and would be nice if we could just create thumbnails for our stores just like we do banners and logos.
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It’s a puzzler. The algorithm chose a rose I did when I was just learning vector. It isn’t that good and unsurprisingly only sold once. As my vector skills increased, so did the popularity of subsequent designs. I have vector electric guitars that sold on >1000 masks and a William Morris vectorization that has sold many times on many different products. Either of those would have been a better choice and ought to have come up in the algorithm since they have far higher views and sales (anything higher than 1 is higher than that terrible rose). My vector rose skills have also greatly improved and subsequent roses have sold far more. But no. The algorithm reached back into the archives to find something ancient that sold once and hasn’t been viewed since.
Where are you guys seeing this? My home page doesn’t have anything like this.
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That is very interesting, I went to the home page to see what you were talking about and I didn’t see “stores you might like” all I saw was “products you might like” and they seemed to be picked out based on recent product designs I had posted (mushrooms)
I’m very curious now what image my store shows as well, wish I knew were to go to see it!
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Maybe it’s an A/B test.
Here is the layout of my Home page, scrolling from top to bottom:
The main graphic with the day’s promo (today it is Stay Connected)
A Welcome Back scroll with hotlinks relevant to designers (I assume customers don’t have this)
Recently Viewed
Trending From Stores You Follow
Recommended For You (individual products based on recent activity, Ijust made backpacks so it’s recommending me more backpacks)
Pattern Wrapping Paper You Might Like (this changes constantly, it is always different versions of something I just looked at)
Vintage Postcards You Might Like (same as above, it must have noticed that I posted a vintage postcard in an Affiliate Request thread and then looked at the vintage things other designers posted)
Stores You May Like (must be an A/B test if only half of us see this. It starts with my store and the unwelcome thumbnail that is the thread subject, The other stores change frequently and generally include a mix of stores that were featured in the day’s promo, which I always click on, and stores of designers in the forum because we are always interacting with each other)
Customer Favorites (random products)
Celebrate Black History Month (next month it will probably be St. Patrick’s Day)
Explore Our Gift Guides
Personalize Your Wedding
and then it goes on with various promos which we probably all share since they aren’t curated to user interaction.
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Very Interesting! Here’s what I’ve got:
- Welcome Back
- Saved Designs
- Recently Viewed
- Recommended for You
- Dusty Blue Envelopes (guess what I was working on!)
- Elegant Wedding Envelopes you might like (again, related to what I’ve been working on)
- Customer Favorites
- Black History Month
- Explore our Gift Guides
- Personalize Your Wedding
- Officially Licensed Merchandise
- Be Inspired
- Enjoy Special Offers
Hmmm… very interesting. I’d love to know which image they’re using for my store!
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I too have no idea what this is about. I spend the majority of my time at the backend of each store but I did try finding my main page.
Ugh! I see what you are saying with my own page. First of all it is recommending 4 stores to me that are already mine and two of those have terrible represenatative images showing. I did notice that they were of things that have sold multiple times recently though.
I also thought that the other random shops it it showing me would not be happy to see the images they have showing either. Maybe a human needs to pick them so that at least the colors won’t clash like they do with mine.
I have a turquoise logo and store theme and it is showing a popular red glitter design which looks awful together. 😑
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I see that not only do you not have recommended stores, you also don’t have Trending From Stores You Follow. Of course if you don’t follow any stores then that would be why. I follow a few of people I’ve run into on facebook.
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Ha! I’m still not even sure what it means to follow someone’s store!
I mostly follow stores that I like to promote from, it is an easy pathway to get to their stores and collections.
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hmm I wonder if i could see which image show for my store if i got on my mom’s computer and her account 
I might have to try it! Although I could be dissapointed as everyone else seems unsatisfied with the image paired with their stores so far! so maybe its better not to know
I went to your store and viewed some products (clicked through to design tool on one) to try and make it appear in my Stores You May like scroll and it worked so here’s your image:
You really lucked out! You’ve got a lovely image that totally matches your profile image over the top if it.
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I gave you a kudos because I appreciate you posting this for me, but I wanted to give it a “horrified thumb” if that’s possible because EEE GADS!!! I think I designed that I love my dog t-shirt the first week or two that I was designing, when I didn’t have a clue and was literally just tossing things out to see what stuck. Now I mostly do weddings. And maybe it’s time for a new store logo too. Hmmmm…
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