I posted about this a long time ago, possibly as far back as the old forum. At that time, searching for [tie-dye leggings] produced only a handful of leggings that were actually tie-dye type design. This even when you could go directly to 'Tie-Dye Leggings' via a choice on the Shop Now page. I remember being thrilled about that only to be disappointed that following the link produced mostly leggings that weren't actually tie-dye.
Fast forward to now and it's much worse. I mean, completely broken.
If you go to the main category for Leggings, it shows there are 98,131 pairs.
If you manually search for [tie-dye leggings] (with or without the hyphen), it shows 289,150 products. That would be all 98K pairs of legging in the MP plus another 191K other products!
I scrolled through the first 5 pages of results and only two could maybe if one is stretching be considered tie-dye.
Searching for tie-dye + other product type yields expected results. I tried
{tie-dye hat]
[tie-dye candle]
{tie-dye shirt]
[tie-dye pillow]
[tie-dye bag]
and got tie-dye type designs, the results I would expect.
But when you use 'leggings' as product type - something breaks in the search algorithm so you get every pair of leggings on the market sorted by popularity. 😲
How on earth are leggings of this design theme to be found? I have one pair of tie-dye legging that have sold 8 times but according to View Insights have only been viewed 17 times in the last 365 days. I don't see them ever selling again as long as search is broken like this.
Maybe we're getting different results?
Of the 289k+ results it tells me there are for [tie-dye leggings], the very top #1 result (which is actually leggings) has these tags:
create your own, design your own, diy, make it yourself, add name, add text, customization, do it yourself, make it unique
I looked at the tags for all of the top 20 results and none of them contain leg/legs, just "leggings" as a whole word. (Neither do any of them contain 'tie-dye'.) And ironically enough, the one pair I think could maybe pass for tie-dye doesn't even use tie-dye in the tags.
Of the 289k+ results it tells me there are, I can only scroll through 13 pages of them. 13 x 60 each = 780 products. All but 4 are actually leggings, and those four do use leg/legs in the tags and/or title. Of the 776 pairs of leggings I can scroll through, few if any have anything to do with tie-dye.
So I think you are right in that if I could go past those first 13 pages to see the other 288k+ products including all the ones that aren't actually leggings, I'd probably find some version of leg/legs in a good lot of them.
But as is, if someone wants an actual pair of leggings in a tie-dye style print, there is no way to find them. Might as well not exist as this combination of keywords (tie dye + product type leggings) throws everything at you but the kitchen sink. And that's probably in there too if we could go past 13 pages.
Whoa, that's really bizarre. Flipping the word order did indeed yield expected results.
