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Alamy "discoverablity" revisited
sgoodwin4813:
--- Quote from: offisapup on July 30, 2020, 10:03 ---So if you have 50 keywords and 10 supertags, you will have good discoverability by default.
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That actually isn't true - I have plenty with 50 keywords, 10 as supertags and still labeled as having poor discoverability, and others with far fewer keywords but the discoverability is rated as being good. It seems like discoverability increases when you use unusual keywords, rather than more common words (even though those may be the most relevant). If being in the green matters to you then select your oddest keywords for supertags. I'm not sure it matters to buyers or to whether your image will be found in a search.
They still take the keywords in the order provided rather than alphabetically, so I always put them in my keyword file with the most important ones first and then just select the first ten as supertags. It's still annoying but doesn't take a huge amount of time at least.
ShadySue:
--- Quote from: sgoodwin4813 on August 01, 2020, 17:38 ---
--- Quote from: offisapup on July 30, 2020, 10:03 ---So if you have 50 keywords and 10 supertags, you will have good discoverability by default.
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That actually isn't true - I have plenty with 50 keywords, 10 as supertags and still labeled as having poor discoverability, and others with far fewer keywords but the discoverability is rated as being good. It seems like discoverability increases when you use unusual keywords, rather than more common words (even though those may be the most relevant). If being in the green matters to you then select your oddest keywords for supertags. I'm not sure it matters to buyers or to whether your image will be found in a search.
They still take the keywords in the order provided rather than alphabetically, so I always put them in my keyword file with the most important ones first and then just select the first ten as supertags. It's still annoying but doesn't take a huge amount of time at least.
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You can get to green, if you really want to, by having ten supertags and about 42-ish total tags if you have filled in all the optional tags. I don't think 50/10 without optional being filled in will get green .
NOT THAT IT MATTERS.
mj007:
It is clearly worth the time to do the super words. I just made a $200 sell Friday. I wish I could make that everyday, but I do get 2-5 sells a month on Alamy. Very fair stock site...
Hannafate:
You get more discoverability by choosing categories, as well.
Mantis:
--- Quote from: mj007 on August 01, 2020, 17:44 ---It is clearly worth the time to do the super words. I just made a $200 sell Friday. I wish I could make that everyday, but I do get 2-5 sells a month on Alamy. Very fair stock site...
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So you are basing this one single data point....a $200 sale... on the value of discoverability keywords? I sell stuff there all the time with 20-30 keywords. Has nothing to do with volume of keywords, it has everything to do with good keywords. Now if Alamy gives you search preference based on having a bazillion keywords vs. 20-30 then there is incentive to scrape for more keywords. Other than that, relevant keywords win all day.
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