... just surfing to see if anyone had any rejections for 'keyword spamming". Until now, I was a 'keyword spamming" virgin. I had almost an entire batch rejected for that reason by StockXpert!!! It kind of blew me away. Generally speaking, I use the same keywords everywhere, they only differ on sites that have a quantity limit, like SS. I looked at them and really didn't think I was pushing it. I contacted StockXpert and got a return email telling me what specific words were 'Spam".
I was blown away again. One example. I have a shot of Half Dome taken from Glacier Point in Yosemite NP. The shot is from the trail head looking out at Half Dome. Half Dome IS the picture. Half Dome is in the title and in the description. Yet, I was told that "Half Dome" was spam.
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Another pic is one of my best sellers. It is a shot of the hydro-electric intake towers at Hoover Dam. Same deal, the shot IS the intake towers, intake towers is in the title and in the description. Yet, StockXpert shot it down, "intake towers" was spamming.
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One other thing I learned, never use the word 'destination' in any kind of travel shots at StockXpert. They shot it down in every 'park/landscape' shot I uploaded.
Now, I'm like hesitant about loading anything new... like was said above, I had to go back and reload all those pix and hope that what meager wording was left will not be 'offensive' to the reviewer. We'll see what happens...
StockXpert is the only site to reject me for this. Hey, I'm all for controls on keyword spamming, I've seen some really wacky and non-relevant keywords out there. But gee.... how can the object of the photo be spam?
Have any others been hit with this rejection elsewhere?
