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RacePhoto

« Reply #25 on: March 16, 2009, 00:29 »
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Alamy maybe, but last time i looked IStock is not "godly" either.
try looking for "necktie" at Istock and see what you get. rabbis, business people, objects, ...
for the first few pages. no necktie as in isolated . not until quite a few pages.

OK I did, and the first five pages (I stopped after 5) were absolutely fine, every single images featured a necktie in the image somewhere, if however I had wanted an image of just a necktie I would have searched for 'necktie AND isolated AND single' which is how search engines are meant to work. Your example is not spamming, many people may want a photo of a businessman wearing a suit and necktie and as such these images are correctly keyworded. Using the word 'NOT' also works on many search engines for example 'businessman NOT necktie'.


"necktie nobody" does a nice job also.

Unlike many photos that don't have things shown, that are in the keywords, like interchange, traffic and highway, when it's a rural two lane country road in the photo, the simple necktie search has people wearing neckties.

Search engines do not interpret or read minds, they only do what we tell them to do. A one word, vague search for "necktie" only shows the the person doing the search needs to refine their query better. Which is a very polite way of not saying what I'm really thinking.  ::)


« Reply #26 on: March 16, 2009, 09:55 »
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Your example is not spamming, many people may want a photo of a businessman wearing a suit and necktie and as such these images are correctly keyworded. Using the word 'NOT' also works on many search engines for example 'businessman NOT necktie'.

This has a rather funny consequence that one can spam by not adding a keyword.  :P
Imagine I put an image of a businessman in suit and necktie online in a conversation with his secretary. I obviously will need most of my 50 (maximum) keywords to emphasize the teamwork and interaction concept and a necktie seems just an obvious attribute of a corporate businessman, so I don't mention it, as I won't enumerate all that is visible in the shot.

Looking for "businessman NOT necktie" will produce my image of a businessman with necktie then.

RT


« Reply #27 on: March 16, 2009, 10:05 »
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And no doubt your image will also appear when searching for 'businessman NOT pot plant in the background that needs watering'  :D

« Reply #28 on: March 16, 2009, 11:22 »
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Well, try "Shetland", and then "Shetland NOT dog NOT horse", and you will see that you should include obvious keywords so that buyers can find the pics they are looking for.

WarrenPrice

« Reply #29 on: March 16, 2009, 12:34 »
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Just an opinion ...mine... I think we pay dearly to have DT review uploads.  Does that include reviewing key words?  It should.  Let them do their job and let buyers notify support of spam. 

If contributors are "obviously" spamming ... DT has the tools to eliminate the problem.  All I could do is "tell on them."

All this thread has done is confuse me.  I'm not sure I know what spam is.  and, I am not quailifed ... or paid ... to monitor everyone's keywords.


« Reply #30 on: March 16, 2009, 19:19 »
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Just an opinion ...mine... I think we pay dearly to have DT review uploads.  Does that include reviewing key words?  It should.  Let them do their job and let buyers notify support of spam. 

If contributors are "obviously" spamming ... DT has the tools to eliminate the problem.  All I could do is "tell on them."

All this thread has done is confuse me.  I'm not sure I know what spam is.  and, I am not quailifed ... or paid ... to monitor everyone's keywords.



Yes you do know what spam is - at the end of the day it's the buyers who define spam, not the contributors. IMHO too much mountain is made out of this molehill - use words that say what the picture portrays and that's it - no more, no less. And yes I agree with you - the inspectors should also be inspecting the keywords and if that adds an extra day or whatever onto the review time, so be it.


 

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