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A day ago I activated my SS account so buyers can see my files. Yet still my portfolio shows no files and they are also not showing on the site 

Is there a bug on the site ?

Yes there is __ see here;

http://tinyurl.com/bugsatshutterstock

 

All showing now but some don't show up in search, even when I type in relevant keywords and under NEW. It's strange that when only 4 files were up I got a download but now all 321 are up and not a single download. Even when my initial 10 were passed I got a download before I switched my account off.

Also, when I am on the site browsing images, how do I navigate back to my account ? There is no way of doing this. No link.

If I click on "Home" it just takes me back to Shutterstock for images. Also, my last 4 images to be accepted are not showing in my main catalogue even though they come up in searches.

I have noticed a few glitches such as  when I click on the "filter" tool, nothing happens. It doesn't respond as if the page has crashed.

I have also noticed also when using keywords in the filter, it doesn't pick up all the images with those keywords. The missing last 4 images show in the SS for images but not in SS for contributors. This meas I can't add them to my catalog.

Well, so far not good. Just a 0.25c download in 24 hrs with 321 images. This is worse than IS  

I'm not 100% about this but I think new uploads get an instant boost initially so they have a chance to sell. However, I'm guessing you have been uploading for a while (in a hidden state) so this may mean your uploads are not treated as new.

Also, its the end of the week/weekend.

Only on here. It's not the message I'm universally getting elsewhere.
Like anywhere else, it depends on your port.
And other, secret, stuff.

Hi Herg,
Sorry to hear about your difficulties, but glad to hear that you have joined us in indie-land.  Doxadigital went through a lot of these same issues when he first started - he wrote quite extensively about it in a thread in a wee forum I had set up for ex iS exclusives.  You can find the link on my blog page (link in my sig below).

Best of luck
Bridget

It's like "Wey-hey, come and join us at SS, it's wonderful. You will never look back and the streets will be paved with gold." As soon as I manage to get on board it's like....."Oh, didn't you know, it's not that good after all. You should have stayed where you were." Makes me smile 

Something I wrote to my Facebook friends recently (many of whom are iS exclusives) was that I think that to be a happy indie it is necessary to be able to truly consider yourself a microstocker.  I think that the introduction of Vetta, E+ etc on iStock have encouraged exclusives to think of themselves as a bit more macro or midstock.  I don't know for sure as Doxadigital didn't ever come back and explain his reasons, but I wonder if part of the problem was that he found it difficult to accept selling his cityscapes in particular for microstock prices.  It can be initially painful to realise that your once-best-selling image has gathered only a couple of bucks in 8 sales at SS, but in time and across all agencies it will start to look a bit healthier.

Much like whistling into the wind, objective advice falls on deaf ears.  Most would much rather listen to those extolling "there is gold in them there hills".

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