Author Topic: What's the benefits of different Pseudonyms? (Read 5696 times)

jools · « **on:** December 07, 2012, 02:53 »

SSIA really.

Currently, I just upload images under one but is there any advantages of dividing this out into a best of and general one?

Would like to get more sales on Alamy and I'm interested to know what I can to help this along.

Thanks as always!

click_click · « **Reply #1 on:** December 07, 2012, 09:41 »

Each pseudonym has its own ranking which determines your placement in search results.

If you have a diversified portfolio with many different topics AND your own specific style you're probably best off with just one pseudonym.

However, if you shoot a lot of very specific things like only a certain species of animals or only night skies in winter (I think you get my drift...) then you could profit from several pseudonyms that you use for your special niches.

If enough buyers who look for such images start purchasing them your ranking will increase as you have a higher purchase ratio over the size of your portfolio than only using one pseudonym for everything.

On the other hand there are photographers out there with 60,000 images in one pseudonym with all kinds of different stuff in there and they do pretty well this way.

You can try it and see how it works out for you.

RacePhoto · « **Reply #2 on:** December 08, 2012, 00:43 »

"is there any advantages of dividing this out into a best of and general one"

It's not always best and general. You can create them by RF and RM. Or Scenic and models. Subjects make more sense than quality?

I think people are over thinking the ranking and search at Alamy. One way to figure it is with three pseudos (or more), add one RF image to the BHZ game for each of them and see where they land. You need to wait for a re-rank to see, it's not immediate.

I made three pseudos. One for RF, one for RM, and one for racing. Funny thing. The one that has one sale and is a place to park things, shows in the ranking, right next to the one that has all my sales.

I'm not sure any of the management and game playing, makes a bit of difference.

Dan · « **Reply #3 on:** December 08, 2012, 16:54 »

Used a pseudonym fo my accepted test batch.

ShadySue · « **Reply #4 on:** December 08, 2012, 17:13 »

Quote from: Dan on December 08, 2012, 16:54

Used a pseudonym fo my accepted test batch.

You alway need at least one 'pseudonym', even if you only have one, and it's your own name.

RacePhoto · « **Reply #5 on:** December 10, 2012, 01:24 »

Quote from: ShadySue on December 08, 2012, 17:13

Quote from: Dan on December 08, 2012, 16:54
Used a pseudonym fo my accepted test batch.
You alway need at least one 'pseudonym', even if you only have one, and it's your own name.

Oh yes and one more thing. The Pseudonym is what goes on the Copyright credits. So if someone wants to play with three or four names, and those files get downloaded, the name when published is not the account name or your real name, but is the Pseudo name.

According to Alamy the rank of each Pseudo is independent of the others. I'm not so sure that's true, but maybe someone with more sales and more files can provide some research and evidence from their history? I don't know how someone would track that?

ClaridgeJ · « **Reply #6 on:** December 10, 2012, 01:38 »

Quote from: RacePhoto on December 10, 2012, 01:24

Quote from: ShadySue on December 08, 2012, 17:13
Quote from: Dan on December 08, 2012, 16:54
Used a pseudonym fo my accepted test batch.
You alway need at least one 'pseudonym', even if you only have one, and it's your own name.

Oh yes and one more thing. The Pseudonym is what goes on the Copyright credits. So if someone wants to play with three or four names, and those files get downloaded, the name when published is not the account name or your real name, but is the Pseudo name.

According to Alamy the rank of each Pseudo is independent of the others. I'm not so sure that's true, but maybe someone with more sales and more files can provide some research and evidence from their history? I don't know how someone would track that?

Istill dont understand it and still cant see how it can benefit, not in any single way. Just a weird feature to me.