MicrostockGroup

I really like keywording system on Alamy, and I like that their search engine won't show you zillion of images of the same author and the same subject from different angles. It will show you only one image of one author, but it will also show you number of similar images of the same author, so if you like what you see, you can click on that authors name and see the rest of images. If I have red grapes in a basket on the ground, why would I need more keywords that red, grapes, basket, ground...and maybe few more keywords added. If designer knows what he want's I am sure he will not search for grapes using: " mediterannean, france, healthy, organic, soft, refreshing" etc etc. Even if it is refreshing and juicy and healthy and so on, I think I wouldn't search for grapes using this words.
I really think 10-15 words are enough for every image to be found, and we would be free of spamming. Am I right or not? What do you think? Maybe I'm making a mistake

On the first image you have:
three same symbols # , and you have 12 more symbols which means 13 keywords. So, you can add word "symbols" and word "black". That's 15

On the second image:
You have 20 symbols, which is still much less than 50 keywords, even if you use one keyword for every symbol. 20 is not to much I think

On the third image:
you have 5 math symbols (> < X >> <<), at least 3 currency symbols ( dollar, pound and euro), two padlock symbols....that give us option to make 22 keyword for this image even if we want to mention every symbol in this image.
Look what Author wrote: "     i, info, information, world, password, item, close, checkmark, accept, back, return, front, proceed, end, beginning"
I don't think I would want this image if I search for "world, front, proceed..."

Whitechild,

We can only see the keywords entered in the third keyword field (forgot its name), which are the less relevant. 

Regards,
Adelaide

Holy Cow WhiteChild, no offense, but did you bump your head on a cupboard door on your way to your collection of thesaurases? Man oh man, Alamy's keywording is fine in theory but in practice it is sheer lunacy. Three levels of keywords with x-number of letters allowed in each category is too much. Okay two levels maybe, but three?

Peter

Have you ever searched for anything on Alamy? It works pretty well.

Have you ever searched for anything on Alamy? It works pretty well.
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Right...it works pretty well. Maybe you have to putt some effort to write keywords, but in the end the result is file that buyers will find easily. IS also have complicated way of keywording. I don't think it's a waste of time to spend some time in keywording an image that will bring you between 100 and 200$ in one sale. It's worth it, much more than image that will bring you few cents-few dollars.

The keywording system on Alamy is very effective, stopping spammers etc, Imagine if the Micros would have had the sense to do this? they would have had twice the turnover.
Then again Alamy invested a lot in their search, namely expertise and money.

My apologies, of course. I try a little tongue in cheek humour on these forums and I always fall flat on my face. In real life I actually make people laugh but the written word is so much different than the spoken word. Very complex, really.

Peter