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Two Essential Links to Read from Alamy

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RacePhoto:
1) How the search engine ranks the Captions, Keywords and Descriptions when buyers are looking for photos.
http://www.alamy.com/contributors/stock-photography-captions.asp


    *  The description field corresponds with our caption field. We limit the caption field to 128 characters and any additional IPTC data overflows to our description field. (haven't tested this one)

    * The keyword field corresponds with our comprehensive keywords field. We limit the compehensive keywords field to 856 characters and any additional IPTC data is truncated. (my results show it's 54 characters when uploading, but it may be my software?)

    * Separate your keywords with semicolons in Photoshop to ensure they transfer correctly.

Tip: Your images where two or more words logically live together will be seen higher up a search when the customer searches for those two or more words. (the order and proximity of your keywords matters!)


2) Alamy Rank and The Diversity Algorithm 
http://www.alamy.com/contributors/alamysearch/default.asp

AlamyRank assigns a score to a collection based on the number of times images from a pseudonym have been clicked or purchased in proportion to the number of times they have been viewed by customers.

Rank = Views divided by Clicks plus Sales

If you get many, many views (which is the keyword spam game elsewhere) and few clicks (zooms) or sales, your Alamy rank will drop. Adding irrelevant keywords will diminish your Alamy rank. Less views, but more clicks, your rank will rise. It's a way to reward the Best Matches and accurate keywording.

All of these fields are used in the search but only the Comprehensive keywords are visible to other people. People who try to harvest and steal keywords, can't see the first two (most important) keyword fields.

Good Sales Everyone!  ;D

madelaide:
Good information, I'll surely check those links in more detail.

Regards,
Adelaide

hali:
racephoto , as always you 're on your toes with all these technical talks.
but again as usual, you lost me... somewhere at the beginning, lol.
do this newbie a big favour and translate what all this means in simpler terms.
iow, how should i improve my keywords with alamy. can you give a simple example , like you always do here.
say... i have a girl wearing jeans jumping in the air. how do i divide the keywords into those 3 boxes
i will start with what i would enter as keywords and you do the rest in explanation. girl, jean, jump, happy,excited, action, motion, legs, ... (loss for keywords, lol).

NikonScott:
Keywords are your friend at Alamy, if you use them wisely, be careful the ones that are not directly related the image will hurt you.  For example, several months ago i reworked my keywords to a very small list for each image, my number of views decreased (also due to the turning off of stemming), but my zoom rate (CTR) increased.  With the last reranking my ranking via BHZ moved about 3 pages with a view of 105.  If some of the terms I used are foreign, please, spend some time in the Alamy forums and much of it will make sense.

I will be reworking my keywords a bit more after spending some time understanding the search terms buyers are using.

Scott

sharpshot:
I still have a small portfolio there but since they introduced stemming, my views and zooms have been slashed.  Looks like I will have to spend some time going through my keywords.

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