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I think it favors exclusive photographers, did a search on sailboat and sailing and all of the first pages were exclusives. Thanksgiving can also be a reason.
Last month i made almost double the money i will make this month.
Did some more searches every first page were all exclusives ? 

Probably so, I saw a few exclusive complain recently about their pictures not being in the search first page anymore.  This attitude seems so pitiful, I can see a possible IS sclerosis...

The exclusive clan may have gotten another perk:  getting first in line for having their pictures approved 

It makes you wonder if with

lousy upload limits 20/week for non exclusives
long wait for review 7 days
being pushed to the back of the search result for non exclusives
lousy percentage 20% for non exclusives

They are trying to tell us something like "we don't really want non-exclusives" upload somewhere else!

For those with disambigous woes and limited time.

arrange your uploads by number of DLs and see if any of your best sellers haven't been DLed for a couple of months and they should be top priority to have their keywords looked at.

Other top priorities photos where the subject is more than one more than one word like "Notre Dame" or Celtic cross" as having the keywords separate scores lower in the search than if they are grouped.

I must admit looking at some of my earlier uploads my keywording was very poor so its a chance to rescue lost images providing there aren't ten pages of exclusive images with the same keywords.

Or another possibility is to sort the list on the 'DLs per month' column. That will pull up what were once your most popular photos.

Discombobulate them in order, from the top.

My DL/Month image (with a flame) stopped selling mid October. It wasn't until I discombooberated it that the pic started selling again.

Yah, I've been doing that now for a couple of weeks but it hasn't helpped much. My November sales will be roughlt 35% less than October.
And Istock could give priority to Exclusives. Don't think they won't. They've done a lot worse in the past. I'm staying with them cuz they still are my 2nd $$ generator but due to the upload limit I think DT and FT will soon catch up.