Author Topic: How long before images are picked up on search engine. (Read 4500 times)

Steve.B · « **on:** November 18, 2011, 04:26 »

Hello all, as the title says when you upload images on canstock how long can expect before you start to get views...not a problem but I uploaded my first batch of images a week ago and it looks like I have had 1 view..

as I said not a problem just interested to know how things work..

cheers Steve.

FD · « **Reply #1 on:** November 18, 2011, 22:35 »

Quote from: Steve.B on November 18, 2011, 04:26

Hello all, as the title says when you upload images on canstock how long can expect before you start to get views...not a problem but I uploaded my first batch of images a week ago and it looks like I have had 1 view..

I brought CanStockPhoto up to date with the past 1/2 year's images about 2-3 days ago and they don't have any views yet. They are pretty slow in general although an EL once in a while makes up for it. Apart from that, it's run by a very nice and responsive guy and the upload and MRF attribution works like a charm. The site has always been the best programmed one around. I guess they update their keyword DB about every week, as it is very resource-intensive. Dreamstime takes about 3 days to index new images into the keywords DB.

Steve.B · « **Reply #2 on:** November 19, 2011, 06:55 »

Quote from: AttilaTheNun on November 18, 2011, 22:35

Quote from: Steve.B on November 18, 2011, 04:26
Hello all, as the title says when you upload images on canstock how long can expect before you start to get views...not a problem but I uploaded my first batch of images a week ago and it looks like I have had 1 view..
I brought CanStockPhoto up to date with the past 1/2 year's images about 2-3 days ago and they don't have any views yet. They are pretty slow in general although an EL once in a while makes up for it. Apart from that, it's run by a very nice and responsive guy and the upload and MRF attribution works like a charm. The site has always been the best programmed one around. I guess they update their keyword DB about every week, as it is very resource-intensive. Dreamstime takes about 3 days to index new images into the keywords DB.

Thanks for the reply, being a newbie to micro stock it's nice to know how these things work..

wut · « **Reply #3 on:** November 19, 2011, 07:06 »

I guess never, since the sales are so low (and I have also mostly 0 views). It looks like the search works much better at partner sites, that make up most of my earnings (if you can call 1% of SS earnings, earnings;)

Paulo M. F. Pires · « **Reply #4 on:** November 19, 2011, 07:34 »

After a long period without any sale, made 2 this month , and the fact is: the images sold so far have 1, 4, 13 views max. Images with many views still at 0. Images sold are almost "old files".

Some days ago I think about it. Could be keywords? Or just images it self ? db update?

Anyways, still putting faith on it.

FD · « **Reply #5 on:** November 19, 2011, 21:36 »

Quote from: CoisaX on November 19, 2011, 07:34

Some days ago I think about it. Could be keywords? Or just images it self ? db update?

It's easy to check. Take a set of 3 distinctive keywords from 1 image of your recent upload and do a search. On DT, it takes exactly 3 days (make sure to sort by relevance/descending and not by downloads/descending). I didn't check on CanStockPhoto yet. What's more, it's not because an image is addressed by the keywords DB that it will get views immediately, certainly not at CanStockPhoto.

frozensage · « **Reply #6 on:** December 04, 2011, 07:46 »

none of my 70 images have had any view. Have submitted ticket seeing what is going on. Seems like a waste of time eventhough their approval rate is practically 100%.

FD · « **Reply #7 on:** December 04, 2011, 07:57 »

Update : batch uploaded 17 Nov has mostly 0 views and about 1/3 has 2 views.
One from 2005 has 2500 views but no sales. I made the mistake to put "teen" in the title. Sigh. I should delete that old crap done with a 3MP P&S.