Z-rank stuck at 3 (All store requirements met)

CarlosPablo
New Contributor III

Greetings, My Z-rank has been stuck on 3 for several months since I started the store about 6 months ago. My store is 100% complete with all requirements met. I've had multiple product views but not many sales and it's getting a bit frustrating because it doesn't seem like my T-shirts are getting out there (also promoting on Instagram). I understand it takes time but I'm wondering if the low Z-rank score is a factor.

Site listed to help drive answers - https://www.zazzle.com/store/carlospablodesigns

Thank you.

 

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Windy
Honored Contributor II

Here is another thread where people said their stores were stuck at a rank of 3. Don't get too excited about the "accepted solution" tag here, but maybe you could post in that thread, or contact some of these creators to find out if they ever found a solution.  https://community.zazzle.com/t5/general-zazzle-discussion/zrank-staying-at-3/td-p/19602

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CreativeLeahG
Honored Contributor III

Share to Twitter. I had the same issue, despite sharing over 300 items via Pinterest, it was still showing as 'share 10 items', so I tweeted 10 items to see if it made a difference. It then switched up to 4 the following day.

Thanks for the quick reply - I've shared already that's why I'm a bit frustrated because my store has been 100 complete for months at this point.

Windy
Honored Contributor II

I see nothing wrong. The only thing I can suggest is that I wonder if you have shared ten times using the share buttons.  I would try the Twitter idea if you have not already done that.

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CarlosPablo
New Contributor III

Thanks Windy, I have definitely shared 10x via email. Would it have given me a '100 Store Complete' if I had not? Just trying to deduce all possibilities - Thank you.

Windy
Honored Contributor II

That's a good point. At one hundred percent complete, I am baffled as to why the store does not have a higher rating. I have not heard of this problem before. Have you had any designs removed by Zazzle for any reason? I wonder if there could be some penalty for that. 

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CarlosPablo
New Contributor III

I've had 2 designs flagged for bad tags (out of 410 designs) early on but I fixed the issue and was able to repost. Not sure why that would cause my store to stay at a 3. I'm lost. Any ideas or other intel would be greatly appreciated.

Windy
Honored Contributor II

Here is another thread where people said their stores were stuck at a rank of 3. Don't get too excited about the "accepted solution" tag here, but maybe you could post in that thread, or contact some of these creators to find out if they ever found a solution.  https://community.zazzle.com/t5/general-zazzle-discussion/zrank-staying-at-3/td-p/19602

I also do Postcrossing!


ColsCreations
Honored Contributor II

Just spitballing here, please do not take this as a criticism of your work, just advice that may or may not be helpful.

I looked at your store and see that you have a lot of the same designs posted individually on different shirt styles or with different departments (mens vs womens) selected. You may want to look at this recent thread and take from it what you will.

You have a lot of designs that are mostly text but they're all flat .pngs rather than editable text. There are 50 shirts in your Hello, I'm From ... Collection. They are all the same design (with some color changes) but with different place names on them. But they are all flat images where one can't edit the place name even by entering the Design Tool. Doing it like this is creating a lot of work for yourself and really limiting the audience who might be interested. If you kept the name tag graphic but instead made the place name over it template text, you could market the same one product to any audience. If zRank is based in part on ratio of # of sales to # of products, and lets say you sell one shirt from that collection of 50, then that's 1:50. But if instead you had one editable shirt and it sold, that's 1:1, much better ratio for zRanking.

Additionally, and just speculation, it's possible that having many same or similar products with same or similar titles is hurting your SEO both on and off Zazzle.

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I appreciate the advice on the flat .png's, etc. and have taken it into consideration but the question still remains my store is 100% complete has collections and categories and everything else required and I still sit with a Z-Rank of 3. It has never moved and I still don't know why. I've started removing redundant designs and things that have had 0 views but nothing has changed. I am very aware the T-shirt market is already over-saturated but being stuck on 3 for over 6 months is frustrating? I have read so many other post on folks' Z-Ranks increasing consistently but mine is just static. 

Site listed to help drive answers - https://www.zazzle.com/store/carlospablodesigns