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?
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 get this for two of your stores:
and then also this which I didn't recognize as one of yours at first:
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.
Was going to delete the awful polkadot image from my image gallery to see if that would force a change even though it would still be on Zazzle in the five published products it's on. But then I thought, shoot, it could end up choosing an even worse one. So I didn't. Maybe one of you all who feels like it couldn't get any worse could try it.
Oh wow, wait ... Just looked in my image gallery and realized at some point in the past I already deleted all the images including the above offender that I used in that Purple & Green collection. So never mind the above, doesn't matter if the image is in your gallery anymore or not.
My new store literally only has three images used in it - a nativity scene, a flamingo photo, and an .svg border. The nativity scene has somehow sold nine times to two different customers and that's what is being used for the store. But look closely - it's not just the image, it's the image plus the blue svg border, cropped to a square. So it's not choosing one of our image per se, but rather an image of an end design. Hmm.
With the customized home page, people see things based on what they've viewed, what they've searched for, what they've purchased, what they've Liked, stores they've Followed ... And that activity is reflected immediately on the home page. For the purposes of this thread, I was able to go to a poster's store, click on a few items, and then go back to the home page and presto - their store was right there that quick in Stores You May Like.
I've come to really like the customized home page. What I see is obviously skewed with results based on products/stores I viewed because they were posted in the forums for whatever reason so there's a lot of designs/themes I'm not interested in always showing, but outside of those, it has at times actually enticed me into viewing something I never would have happened on before. And from a designer perspective, the custom home page becomes very useful at bringing similar/competing type designs to you to check out. 😉
For shoppers, I think it's a good thing that probably leads to more engagement. I know me personally, I am easily led down the "similar things you might like" rabbit hole on YouTube and Amazon market and such.
I just went to my product page and saved the tiny thumbnail image from there then zoomed in on it and even it doesn't look blurry like the one they are displaying.
This is what that cover image on my store should look like and I would be ecstatic if it did... There has to be some rendering glitch affecting that image on the home pages. Dang I don't want to have to post all this again in the tech forum...😒
