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fintastique:
A couple of tips for those who burn CDs and post them to Alamy.

As they have 4.9 million images and rather lax upload controls ( alot of similar shots) keywording is so important if your images will ever been found.

1 keywords must be separated by a space just because having a comma dioesn't mean anything to them

2 they have a search option which cuts though the dross - exact phrase
so group your keywords appropriately so obviously

St Andrews cathedral Scotland

but also

river tay estuary
will show up for searches for river tay and tay estuary

So for those contributing its worth doing a few searches to see if you can find your images and tweak your keywords appropriately.

I think folks are waiting for the uploading as the review process seems to be getting quicker though I seem to get one disc piggy backing on a DVD sent the previous week

Date received        date online    wait
5 May                   31 May         26 days
12 June                10 July         28 days
27 June                25 July         28 days
06 July                 25 July         19 days
24 July                 11 August    18 days
2 August              11 August      9 days

So the reviewing of the  last batch was quicker than CanStockPhoto and BigStock !!  ;D

If only somebody would buy something.  :'(

leaf:
are you saying that if you have three keywords that 'belong' together, that the should be listed right after eachother in the correct order, and not say for example in alphabetical order?

fintastique:
As Alamy's keywording screen is the same as shutterstock's I send off the files unkeyworded as using pixvue would alphabetize the keywords which is very bad.

Yep always group your keywords so that the exact phrase search will pick up the keywords in the correct order

so first search option all keywords "edinburgh castle scotland" - 1052 results

second keyword option "edinburgh castle scotland" - 138 results

Strangely "castle edinburgh scotland" picks ups 69 results who used that phrase mostly in the title

I sometimes just copy and paste the title into keywords then add citadel stronghold fortress etc etc

leaf:
hmmm well i am not totally sure I agree with the keywords being in any specific order and affecting ranking.... the photo title on the other hand seems to affect search ranking considerably.

GeoPappas:
I'm not sure how much grouping your keywords will help you, since someone could search on "castle Scotland Edinburgh"...

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