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Agency Based Discussion => Dreamstime.com => Topic started by: mattb on June 14, 2009, 15:10
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I just happened to notice that many of my images have their keywords locked. I'm assuming that they were reported for some reason but when you only use 10-15 keywords a image, it makes it pretty hard to spam. Take this one for instance:
http://www.dreamstime.com/three-grapes-image7997761 (http://www.dreamstime.com/three-grapes-image7997761). It's got the same set of keywords that it had when I originally uploaded it but its got the boilerplate "This image has been rightfully reported as having bad keywords and an editor approved the needed corrections. At this time you can add more keywords only through the key-mentoring system." next to the keywords.
Normally I wouldn't really care but given all the search engine tweaking going on there's no telling if it will impact placement or not.
Just wanted to know if anyone else is seeing this?
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I'd have no reason to care. Their latest search engine "tweaking" killed my sales.
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I just happened to notice that many of my images have their keywords locked. I'm assuming that they were reported for some reason but when you only use 10-15 keywords a image, it makes it pretty hard to spam. Take this one for instance:
[url]http://www.dreamstime.com/three-grapes-image7997761[/url] ([url]http://www.dreamstime.com/three-grapes-image7997761[/url]).
It might be because you included the keyword "isolated", but the image isn't isolated.
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It definitely did affect search engine ranking, I had one reported and it was selling quite well then stopped dead, but it started selling again since the recent search engine changes though, so the number of sales attached to it must be a new search factor. In my case, this was from my very first batch and when I (years late) saw the keywords I cringed and went back and rekeyworded everything. I seem to remember a notice about what words were flagged though. If you don't feel they are fair, just explain your case to admin - it may simply be a difference in use of the language.
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I never received a notice that I any of my keywords were flagged. The strange thing is, for the example I posted, non of the keywords were removed from the original set of keywords.
I don't know how much if it all it's affecting my sales though. April and May were my best two months in a long time, although this month is shaping up to be very bad.
I did submit a support request so we'll see what that gets me.
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I never received a notice that I any of my keywords were flagged. The strange thing is, for the example I posted, non of the keywords were removed from the original set of keywords.
I don't know how much if it all it's affecting my sales though. April and May were my best two months in a long time, although this month is shaping up to be very bad.
I did submit a support request so we'll see what that gets me.
Good, please report back, because all of mine have the same notation and the keywords have not been altered or reported for anything. I'm one of those minimal keyword people and everything in the words is actually in the photo and prominent.
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I'll let you know how the support request goes. I noticed something this morning, every one of my images that were online before 2/17 have been tagged for bad keywords. My guess is someone is trying to make a some quick change. I would have thought DT would have put in some safe guards for this type of thing.
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Got a response back from support, said it was a technical glitch. All is better now. I'm impressed with how fast they got back to me.