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How ? Do you have any clues - less better / more better?
How do the first 7 keywords influence on the search results? Do categories matter, maybe even with some combination of keywords?
Or at last, might the reviewers give some kind of rank to newly accepted images, in orded to make the relevence search starting form the best (in reviewers personal opinion of course)?

I ask because I am really confused. Most of my income on Fotolia is produced by about 5 photos, which are of course high in the search.

Michal

Not really. There is no rule, in one image the keywords are not even put in the order of siginficance.... and it has got already over 200 dl for 6 months....

I keyword in photoshop, keeps the keywords in order i put them and have the seven most important in front.
This because the (ahum) emphasis on the search results should be better.  

I make sure that in title, description and first seven keywords the same keyword appears at least one time, preferably two times.  Some sites include title and description as criteria for search results.  This should also result in better placement in search.

However i doubt fotolia's search engine and relevance works like that. Looking at the relevance on fotolia a lot of images are not placed by relevance that should be.  My guess is that inspectors give some kind of rating that influences the placement/relevance.

As for the seven first keywords, this no longer counts according to my experience.  Searching for my images based on the first seven keywords reveals a lot of images in front of mine where the keyword is not even in the first seven order.  So as to keywording for fotolia.. i'm in the dark.

Patrick H.

The keywords are highlighted/sized by order...

Patrick H.

I think I saw a pattern.  First keyword in bigger font size, next 9-11 keywords in bold. Check your own images. What do you think?

Regards,
Adelaide