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Just to clear the air...   

if i was ready to give up on LO  ..... I wouldn't have pix waiting for review or dozens in the que waiting for me to keyword them.... and a list of pix to upload.

..... I put the same pix on LO  I have put  everwhere else.  They sell at IS, SS, DT, BigStock, StockXpert .... and sell well.   I'm still hoping they will sell at LO...........  eventually.    I find it hard to believe I'm not getting views because my images suck. They don't suck elsewhere, they sell.  Does LO have a client base that is completely different than all those other sites?  Not likely.    There must be a reason.  Now Bryan just said a reason might be...  might be....

4. New images might take some time to get exposure based on our search engine.  As our traffic increases this will minimize, but short term it might have an impact on views.  We also have a couple new features which will increase visibility of images.

Fine. Okay.  We'll see.  Based on other sites,  if my pix get viewed, they seem to sell.  They aren't getting viewed now at LO.  Does the side show help?  According to what I've read here in MSG,  yes!   But. if one is in a  no view loop and spiraling downward,  then sales never come. The sales don't come,  neither does the side show (or payout)...   it's a no win,  lose/lose situation.

............. I've been with LO for over a year,  one of the first to upload at LO...   I'm still here,  and I'm still uploading.   I'm trying to keep the faith.

Patiently waiting..   -tom

5 sales in September wit portfolio over 1000 images. September was better than august (1 more sale).  So I need 61 downloads to get to spend over 500 tokens I get from uploads from last year... So no sideshow feature for me until year 2009 at this sale&view speed.

Is anybody traded their gift tokens with other members (e.g. I buy 100 of your images and you buy 100 of mine.. both have payout, both have sideshow enabled)? (or is this restricted by user agreements or something) Or should there be a option to enable the sideshow directly with e.g. 100 tokens or something.



 

Token swap is not a good idea, really not guys, SY

Hi

I like the way Hugo puts this with SS being the wife and LO the mistress - I have been on LO about six weeks with 200 on line and have 16 downloads in September.

True - this is much less than elsewhere, but I do believe Bryan is on the right path.

Well I had 1 download in the last 3 months with a portfolio of 300+.
My last batch of 30 was accepted totally, so quality shouldn't be an issue.
September gave me something just below 100$ on SS alone, so sellability in general shouldn't be an issue.
I started on LO and Featurepics (both 1 year old) at the same time begin this year: on my way to 2nd payout on FP, payout on LO in 2016?

Why do some sell at LO, and others don't?

As always, I think it's the search algorithm. You might have a better concept but if you turn up on page 20, you're out. Since I really don't have time to play the silly comment game on LO, I guess I'm banned to page 30 or so. My issue with LO is that the commenting plays a role in priority - not only the quality or best match.

Here's an interesting observation:
Last week, I uploaded and had approved a close-up of the eye of an Asian woman.  When searching for the words Asian, woman, close-up, and eye (sort by best), I get 33 images up. Mine is the only one that is actually a close-up of an eye, while the others are mostly portraits. Still, it's only number 26 in the search.

I did similar searches with other images/parameters and got similar results.

In this case, all the images came up in the first page, but in many cases, recently uploaded images ended up at page one million or further back. This looks strange to me, and makes me think that either there's a lot of keyword spamming at LO, and/or there's something fundamentally wrong with the search engine.

I'm at LO since july, 650+ photos online and 15 downloads. With tags in the exif and their great upload system it's worth the effort anyway, I like the site as anyone else and as anyone else I want to believe things will pick up speed eventually.
Well done Bryan.