Congrats on the sales, that must have been a pleasant surprise to come back and find.
You don't have to publish shirts in both categories. If someone is searching by keywords they will find your shirt regardless and be able to select which style they want from the product page. On the other hand, if they are just browsing and make their way to the Womens Tshirts department, yours won't show up if categorized as Mens. It's a shame we don't have a Unisex category but publishing duplicate products to get around having to make that choice is frowned upon.
If you've been away for a while, you need to read this page:
Marketplace Optimization
I can only see 12 products in your store so suspect you may have had things hidden for Optimization.
To check if you need to optimize anything and make them public again, check the Product Visibility --> Optimization Needed option in your back-end.
Congrats on the sales, that must have been a pleasant surprise to come back and find.
You don't have to publish shirts in both categories. If someone is searching by keywords they will find your shirt regardless and be able to select which style they want from the product page. On the other hand, if they are just browsing and make their way to the Womens Tshirts department, yours won't show up if categorized as Mens. It's a shame we don't have a Unisex category but publishing duplicate products to get around having to make that choice is frowned upon.
If you've been away for a while, you need to read this page:
Marketplace Optimization
I can only see 12 products in your store so suspect you may have had things hidden for Optimization.
To check if you need to optimize anything and make them public again, check the Product Visibility --> Optimization Needed option in your back-end.
what do you mean that it's frowned upon to list more than one? I'm a bit concerned about that because of how I just listed my shirts
Well, as long as I've been on Zazzle it's been said that duplicate products are frowned upon, or posting same product in different stores, which would be a duplicate. Does Zazzle actually do anything about it such as remove duplicates or punish you in some way like lowering Zrank or search placement? I don't know the answer to that. But my feelings are...
* It seems unanimous opinion that the ratio of # of sales to # of products is a factor in a store's zRank. So publishing say 10 shirts where you could only be publishing 1 is hurting yourself there.
* The more products you have in your store the harder it is to keep up with staying organized and keeping them optimized so they don't get Hidden from lack of views. Again, having 10 products where you could have just one instead makes things harder down the road.
* There is a limit on how many products you can have per account. It's high, 100,000. I can't imagine having anywhere near that many products but people do. Every unnecessary duplicate is chipping away at your limit.
* As a shopper, seeing the same design on multiple shirts in search results or browsing a store/collection directly would confuse me. Since you can choose any category & style you want from the product page (assuming the designer left it open) I'd be wondering, is there something slightly different between these designs I am missing? I personally have a hard time with decision paralysis and thus paradox of choice. I'd be comparing back & forth to see if the designs were actually just the same or not and to see if the price was the same if I change the style myself compared to clicking the product listed in that style ...
* As a Creator, it honestly just peeves me. When I see say the same pillow listed as 16x16, 20x20 and outdoor on the first page of results, that pushes other different designs back farther.
This is all just my opinion and I know many don't agree with it, but I feel like on a platform like this where the end-customer can edit/customize to their needs and can also choose which product option they want from the product page, unless it's necessary to make the design work publishing multiples to cover variants a customer can choose on their own just feels spammy to me.
* As a Creator, it honestly just peeves me. When I see say the same pillow listed as 16x16, 20x20 and outdoor on the first page of results, that pushes other different designs back farther.
This is all just my opinion and I know many don't agree with it, but I feel like on a platform like this where the end-customer can edit/customize to their needs and can also choose which product option they want from the product page, unless it's necessary to make the design work publishing multiples to cover variants a customer can choose on their own just feels spammy to me.
Here's an example of this that just cropped up today:
