So I get a lot of comments on why TeePublic designs aren't showing up in searches. In
this video I want to talk about some things that you could do and some of my
thoughts about it and some theories on why I think they're not showing up. Let's go!!
Hey everyone it's Juna with Detour Shirts. In this video I wanted to talk about the
hot topic of TeePublic and why your designs may not be showing up in searches. So I did a lot of
research on YouTube as you probably did and I saw this one right here this is an older video but it
kind of explains that I love Zen Watercooler and he kind of explains some things that you
could do so I'm going to show you some of those things but I'm also going to end it with some of
my theories on why I think it's not showing up as well and even though it's not showing up you
could still get some sales so let's get into TeePublic right now and I'll show you all my
thoughts on this subject alright so here we are on TeePublic this is my store one of the things
that uh Zen water cooler said and a lot of people have said on different videos is you need to have
a good store set up first before showing up in searches so one of the things you may want to do
is make sure that you have your icon here make sure you have your store Banner make sure you
have your title here make sure you have all your links uh if you have any social media links and
make sure you have some good design so that you should have at least 10 designs some people say
up to 25 designs I have a whole bunch of other designs on here so first things first make sure
you have all of those things set up is that your store is totally set up with everything a lot of
new stores go in and upload designs but don't take care of the the store setup and TeePublic really
wants you to have a nice store setup especially if they're going to send people your way so just
looks more professional I've also heard people say to do albums and I don't have any albums here but
you I'll show you where you can do that if you go to your profile here go to account settings you
can see my albums right here and I don't have any but if you click on it you can create a new album
and so some people think that also could help you get seen in TeePublic so the next thing you
could do if you if you've done all that and your designs aren't showing up you could contact some
support let me show you where to find that you can scroll all the way down here do contact us
um do facts Support Center or contact support I think this one will work uh come down here and you
can say I'm a designer and I have a question and then put in your email and you can see
um right at the top I have a question about site search so you can put your questions in there show
let them know that you've done everything to set up your store you've done everything that
we talked about and then your designs are still aren't showing up and maybe they can help you
right here so that's one of the other things that I learned from watching those videos is you can
contact them support TeePublic and they could help you with it or at least explain why your
designs aren't showing up so lastly I want to show you examples from my store and other stores that
some designs don't show up TeePublic has says that their designs are curated and that means that it
sometimes they show up and sometimes they don't show up and they they decide which ones show up
and don't so you can see right here this one is on my merch store it doesn't get any sale
hasn't gotten any sales right now but if I um and this may be you it that doesn't have
any sales right so it looks I can even type in the pizzas are calling and I must go so this is
kind of a play on words where the mountains are calling and I must go and you can see I made the
pizzas look like mountains and I thought it was a great idea but when I search what's happening is
the mountains are showing up more than the pizza even though I've I've typed in the the full phrase
here you can see I am not showing up in searches the mountains are doing it because the public has
thought at least this is what my theory is they think these are going to sell more and so these
will show up and maybe I typed in something wrong I don't know so this is just one example of things
not showing up let me show you another one I'll pick another design that I have that actually
does have some sales so this design right here you can see sweet dreams are made of cheese 58
sold already so I get a lot of sales on here so it also happens with designs that actually have
sales so here if I go up to the top and I type in sweet dreams are made of cheese [Music] and do a
search you can see even though mine had 56 sales which should put it at the top of the search it
is not in the searches at all so that leads me to believe that sometimes even though you get have
sales on a shirt uh it doesn't show up it's random right it would have to have shown up before in the
past for me to get sales but right now it's not and if I scroll down you'll see this one is the
alternate version of the one that was selling and this has zero sales this is the the white version
or the version that's going on a white or light shirts but the dark version not even on page one
even though it has lots of sales and it's not there so what I think is happening is some
designs show up some designs don't show up and they change throughout the day so or throughout
the month so maybe next time or next week when I look this up it would show up and get some sales
and maybe something else won't so I think um T public is doing that as well so you're just
gonna have to be patient I'm going to show you one more example so it's not just me I'm gonna go to
um a known top seller um oh illustrata sorry we all know these people in the strata I've done a
interview with them with uh Tim okay this one kaiju's ramen top selling I did popular this is
the most popular thing they have right and this is a super popular store you can see they've done
everything Banner um 231 designs they have their oh I forgot to say in the beginning do
also you're about what what you're about I'll put that in to make sure that you get searches
but they've done everything right right and top seller as well so let me type in
kaiju's Ramen you would think that's the title of the shirt it would come up in searches
no it does not come up in searches so this is happening to everybody so don't worry it's
not just that you're a new seller it's not that TeePublic hates you I think TeePublic is rotating
designs that's my that's my thought why it doesn't show up here I have no idea there's only two here
so there's definitely room for them to show kaiju's Ramen in this in the search results
but you know something maybe with the algorithm or whatever it is so um that's just my way of
saying that I think TeePublic has something in the background that shows and doesn't show a designs
just a theory they didn't haven't said that out right but just by looking at see some of these
top sellers it would have to be the case that TeePublic has some something in the background
that shows and doesn't show because how else would you get some sales if it didn't show up
in the searches right so those are my thoughts on why things aren't showing up in TeePublic search
I think really my theory is it's an algorithm in the background that's hiding and showing certain
things at certain times but I also think it is wise to make sure that your store is all set up
correctly make sure you have everything in place doesn't guarantee that you'll show up in searches
but I think it would help you get some sales and things like that so make sure to create designs
that still that people want to buy I think that's really helpful but you can see uh it happens to
everybody it happens to me it's happened to very popular stores as well so nothing you can really
do about that switching up but I wanted to make sure to let you know even though it's
not showing up right now it still could get sales in the future and I'm getting a lot more sales on
TeePublic than I I'm getting on Redbubble so keep doing it keep adding things on there be patient
write to the public they could also help you so hopefully this video is really helpful for you if
you want to see a full tutorial about TeePublic I have this one right here I go from finding a
niche designing and uploading and all the things in between so have fun with that one thanks again
for watching and as always guys keep creating and keep learning I'll see you on the next one bye