Author Topic: Uploading to Alamy - Do you take out the comma between keywords? (Read 6449 times)

Dantheman · « **on:** September 13, 2012, 04:00 »

Hi,

I'm in the middle of uploading/keywording a batch for Alamy. It's taking for ages!!!
The most time consuming thing is, taking out all the commas between keywords.
Do you do this? I read somewhere in the instructions that it should be without commas, but does it really make a difference?

Would love to hear some tipps etc. because at the i'm in doubt if it is worth it spending so much time for one agency.

ruigsantos · « **Reply #1 on:** September 13, 2012, 04:27 »

I don't take out the commas. I submit to Alamy the same images I submit to other agencies. No troubles so far.

fotografer · « **Reply #2 on:** September 13, 2012, 04:34 »

I only take out commas in the Essential Keywords so that I can get the maximum number of keywords possible.

Dantheman · « **Reply #3 on:** September 13, 2012, 04:44 »

ok cool. Guess i will also not do this anymore.
Still wondering if it makes a difference, since they state that keywords should be separated by spaces.

fotografer · « **Reply #4 on:** September 13, 2012, 05:00 »

I get sales so the keywords are still searchable.
Unless of course they are all coming from the essential keywords. I find on the sites that show which keyword an image was bought on it is over 90% of the time from the first half a dozen most important keywords.

Dantheman · « **Reply #5 on:** September 13, 2012, 05:01 »

Quote from: fotografer on September 13, 2012, 05:00

I get sales so the keywords are still searchable.
Unless of course they are all coming from the essential keywords. I find on the sites that show which keyword an image was bought on it is over 90% of the time from the first half a dozen most important keywords.

Thanks for the info. Going to save me a lot of time

Poncke · « **Reply #6 on:** September 13, 2012, 05:10 »

Alamy automatically removes commas fromt he ICTP data, so why should I add them? if they remove them, it probably works fine without them

Dantheman · « **Reply #7 on:** September 13, 2012, 05:14 »

Quote from: Poncke on September 13, 2012, 05:10

Alamy automatically removes commas fromt he ICTP data, so why should I add them? if they remove them, it probably works fine without them

I never added them! I removed them (manually), since i didn't know that alamy does this automatically

MikLav · « **Reply #8 on:** September 13, 2012, 06:07 »

I just upload same files as to microstock, with keywords in IPTC. Just copy paste the first few keywords to essential keywords field

mtkang · « **Reply #9 on:** September 13, 2012, 09:21 »

i keyword with adobe bridge and alamy will remove all semi colon itself..

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Author Topic: Uploading to Alamy - Do you take out the comma between keywords? (Read 6449 times)

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