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They are my fourth biggest seller. A friendly attitude and accepting 80% of what I submit helps also.

I LOVE Fotolia! They're my #2 behind ShutterStock. An awesome site!

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note:  fotolia is also refered to as FT

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FT has been a deception for me, i've 85 images online and i've been there since 19 jan, and the best i've got is 16 views...on other stocks i have more than 16 on just a single image. As far as sales go just one at IS, where i just have 3 images so far.

I LOVE Fotolia !!!!

I use 1 month to reached my first 100 sales.. now, I am a Bronze level......

Yes, I've noticed a speedy response time from FT.  They are accepting most of my images, but having said that I have learned a lot from rejections over the past two weeks since I first started submitting elsewhere, so they have received higher quality from me.

I have submitted exactly the same images to BigStock and DT and I will be very interested to compare acceptances/rejections etc.  Interesting that none of my images have yet been reviewed at BS and DT, which only underlines how quick FT are.  No guarantee that just because FT accepts something, it will automatically be accepted by the others.

But at the end of the day it is the ability to 'sell' and sell in quantity that counts.

All of my stuff is being shot 'new' specifically for stock photography.

My only aim to is build up a large enough portfolio with sufficient downloads to become 'exclusive' with one of the sites.  The logic for this is explained in another thread.

Fotolia is good for me.

Something to note. A lot of what I have sold has come off quite low number of views. So I would't be inclined to put a big emphasis on views.
It's what a buyer is looking for at the time, he will take it no matter how many views.

I think that the only thing you can base your judgment on is sales not views. I'm also new to Stock having only started in December but find that Fotolia is one of the better sites for me personally. It ranks 3rd for me behind Shutterstock and Istock and I like the way you can see where your photos are going. By comparison Dreamstime is just behind Fotolia.

It still has had loads less views than most of the sites below it but as it is making more money that doesn't bother me

I don't know if it makes a difference in the end. but I have the habit of putting most important keywords first even before I joined FT.  When I started in stock sites at ShutterPoint, I learnt that their search tool uses the keyword positioning to rank images in a search, so I took it to the microstock.

Some sites reorder the keywords, others don't (StockXpert, for instance, in the edit window they are as entered but when you view it is shown in alphabetical order).  I don't know if this means anything for the search in these sites.

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Adelaide

This has been an informative thread to me!

I did not know that you could see who bought your images on FT. (I discovered that Fotolia itself bought one of mine recently, for 2 credits - I wonder what they are going to do with it). I also had no idea that the order of keywords made a difference. So thanks to you posters for the info!

As for me, I like FT except that the site itself seems slow, and everything is a little different the way it works, even the log-in is strange. But I like the way they pay, you don't have to make $100 or even $50 before getting paid.