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Thanks Tyler that was very informative. Any thing to help with rank is always helpful.

Cool video Thanks Tyler. BTW I like your haircut, lol.

Not much new except the last 5 seconds when she had a (provoked) slip of the tongue telling that 25% of the buyers search by categories. I heard inside rumors like that from another site too. That might give a backlash to sites without categories.

How big is your port there Szakaly, and can you give us a link to it?

I almost didn't watch because I thought I pretty much understood the way keyword/title/description worked at DT, but there were some surprises for me.  

One important factor that I didn't know is that having MORE keywords can hurt your search rank.  I always use every applicable keyword and it usually ends up being between 20 and 50.  I didn't know that having 50 could hurt your search position.  I don't think it was always that way.  Wonder when it changed?  Might explain why my sales there lately seem to be dropping...?

Great interview Tyler!  BTW, I was surprised that your English is perfect without any accent. Did you say you lived in the US at one time?

I knew that too many keywords can hurt my ranking, but since I submit images to more than 10 websites, I didn't want to pay attention to write keywords for every site separately.

Nice interview Leaf, and some interesting info. I decided to review some of my images at DT to see if making any changes made any difference to search placement and sales, however, when I went to edit, next to the keywords field there was this following message:

This image has been rightfully reported as having bad keywords and an editor approved the needed corrections. At this time you can add more keywords only through the key-mentoring system.

Everything is greyed out and I can't change anything, including titles, description and keywords. I went through two pages of images and they were all the same. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Come to think of it, did DT have some sort of system where contributors received reward for reporting keyword spam?

I think if you edit some of your images now it will have some improvement, but you will have to wait for it, because I think your ranking depends on how many people buy your image after seeing it on the screen. If your image is seen many times, and bought very few times, you have to wait for this ratio to get better.
Maybe I'm wrong tho...

Not exactly what she said. She said that if you want to rank high in one specific search, less but targeted keywords are better in the relevancy search. Of course, she said, if you want to turn up in more searches, more keywords are better. FYI: when buying on DT, I always turn the relevancy search off and I use downloads. Relevancy gives too many similars. With dowloads, the buyers before you did the hard work of sifting out the images with high impact.

Thanks Tyler- very informative. I guess i am going to have to work on keywording.Most of the oldtimers seem to get a least 30-50 keywords. i am lucky to come up with 10-15.
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Same on IS.  Tough call.  If you only allow the buyer to find your image on a smaller set of terms, it is likely one will show up very strong.  If you take the position, as I do, that buyers want to use a lot of meta to find your image, the strength of any one might be diluted.

Oh yeah, is it nice there? Toronto with it's heat and humidity and noise is getting to me...