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Alamy "discoverablity" revisited
stockastic:
I got out of microstock years ago - except for Alamy. Amazingly, I still get a sale now and then and it pays at least a few dollars, so I'm thinking about adding some new ones just for laughs.
I see most of my images have "poor discoverability" despite good descriptions and keywords.
It's been years since I looked at this, and I remember that tedious keywording interface. Can anyone cut to the chase and tell me the most likely cause of "poor discoverability" on Alamy as it is today? Or does it even matter?
offisapup:
It doesn't matter. "Discoverability" on Alamy is calculated purely on the number of keywords and "supertags" you use and the optional information you give. It has nothing to do with the actual quality of keywords or descriptions.
So if you have 50 keywords and 10 supertags, you will have good discoverability by default.
stockastic:
I'll check this out myself of course, but what's a "supertag" and would I have to go back and punch them all in by hand?
ShadySue:
--- Quote from: stockastic on July 30, 2020, 12:40 ---I'll check this out myself of course, but what's a "supertag" and would I have to go back and punch them all in by hand?
--- End quote ---
Supertags are your up-to-ten most important tags, and yes, you need to do them yourself.
It's just as well to do this, as you might discover that when Alamy changed the Image Manager a lot of existing keywords got mangled and mashed.
As offisapup says, don't worry about discoverability - it's a stupid thing Alamy introduced which has led to a lot of spamming. And what's the point of being 'discovered' on an irrelevant or marginal keyword?
This is Alamy's official tutorial video of how to use the new image manager - and it only has 14 keywords!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DeGewd73uw&t=135s
stockastic:
Well I see one thing about Alamy hasn't changed: the big question is still, is it even worth the time spent grinding through their keywording process?
If they just took the first 10 keywords, by default, I'd be fine. But no.
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