Don't like the new search ... sales dropped dramatically past week.
Today only 2 sales.... with 6500 images online... and this is no april's fool.

Patrick H.

for me , these upgrade is very bad

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Yes, I read your thread at Dreamstime. For me it's very good since from 2 downloads yesterday of older exclusive images with high image levels alone, I had 11$. Those shots never really "flied" but Achilles asked me to optimize keywords and title a week ago, and I did it for all my older images with higher image rank.

It's a good strategy since "relevance" as determined by the search engine is only determined by the metadata/keywords, while real relevance might more depend on previous sales and views. What's more, as the contributor wins more on high image level images, Dreamstime in general too will have more revenue. My RPD went up from $1.39 in February 2009 to $2.41 in March which confirms this guess.
My referral income went slightly up from $4.49 in February to $4.54 in March, and considering these ports are more recent, it all fits.

In every search algorithm change, there are winners and losers. I turned out to be a big loser on Istock and a winner on DT. That's microstock life.

Your port is very vulnerable to algorithm changes, and you should analyze its content. With 5,000+ online, you have large series of similars, and the concepts/settings are limited. That means you are competing with your own images and you will reach high image levels on selected images much slower. With limited variety, you will also have less sales from visual search in your port. My keyword-less sales are 60% of the total, indicating visual search. On a side note, you should pay more attention to keywords and title. Many shots of your daughter have just the title "kid" and the keywords are limited. On every shot you use "beautiful" but that's not really a search term since all landscapes, nature and girls are "beautiful".

Whoever has a high production with a constant flow of new images should also upload to ShutterStock, where new images rank high in the search engine but die quickly. Dreamstime is more an investment in the long run.

The problem with the DT dls search is that lots of crappy images that have been put into the assignment are coming up in the first pages as they have been bumped up to 100dls.  So even if they have never sold which is often the case they will come up before far superior images that have sold 80 or 90 times.

Don't like the new search ... sales dropped dramatically past week.
Today only 2 sales.... with 6500 images online... and this is no april's fool.

Patrick H.

Same here... don't like the new search engine, significant sales drop. Am going back to my images to revamp some titles and keywords & see what happens.

I'm very pleased with whatever DT is doing. My sales have spiked way up in all my main categories -- my images make up to 50% of the first pages on two of my main subject key words. Very impressive work by this site.

Ok, its been nearly a month, no sale at DT, thinks are looking mighty bleak.  My current uploads are not being viewed much either, very sad days!   Just when I thought I was getting the hang of things!