As in subject. Does it infuence in any case search engine?
It a lot of work to reorder keywords in my 1500 photos' portfolio, that's why I ask.
Thanks

Since you are a new member i am guessing you haven�t seen the threads on this.

Apparently, the seven first keywords are the �strong�ones in the search, so the first seven should be the most relevant to the image.

When keywording photos i always put the most important ones first.

It has also been mentioned that once the images are uploaded you cannot change the order of the keywords.

Quote from: niserin on June 21, 2008, 05:19

As in subject. Does it infuence in any case search engine?
It a lot of work to reorder keywords in my 1500 photos' portfolio, that's why I ask.
Thanks

After all the talk about the "relevance" search on fotolia I did a little experiment. I uploaded 2 images almost the same, one portrait and one landscape. I used 8 keywords on one and 30-40 keywords on the other. The one with 8 keywords got placed at the top of the search. This explains why there was one certain photographer whose images were dominating the searches. He only had a few keywords on each image. Anyone else try this?

I just checked out your experiment and indeed it works but when you click on the downloads preference most of the top images dissappear. I guess this means that yes your image might appear near the top on relevance but customers are not influenced by the results and are willing to dig a bit deeper in the search. Also by only putting 8 search words it does cut down the amount of words that they can be found by and thus appearing in less searches...swings and round abouts!

Quote from: cdwheatley on June 21, 2008, 11:00

Quote from: niserin on June 21, 2008, 05:19

As in subject. Does it infuence in any case search engine?
It a lot of work to reorder keywords in my 1500 photos' portfolio, that's why I ask.
Thanks

After all the talk about the "relevance" search on fotolia I did a little experiment. I uploaded 2 images almost the same, one portrait and one landscape. I used 8 keywords on one and 30-40 keywords on the other. The one with 8 keywords got placed at the top of the search. This explains why there was one certain photographer whose images were dominating the searches. He only had a few keywords on each image. Anyone else try this?

I just checked out your experiment and indeed it works but when you click on the downloads preference most of the top images dissappear. I guess this means that yes your image might appear near the top on relevance but customers are not influenced by the results and are willing to dig a bit deeper in the search. Also by only putting 8 search words it does cut down the amount of words that they can be found by and thus appearing in less searches...swings and round abouts!

I Agree that some customers will dig deeper but, I have yet to see one of my images on page 5 outsell an image on page 1 even if it is a much better image. I have seen some pretty mediocre images sell like crazy because they are sitting on the first line of best match, relevance. I have no plans to start using 8 keywords, just wanted to get to the bottom of why one particular photographer was dominating the entire search after the relevance change about a month ago. The funny thing is my image with 8 keywords that got good placement is outselling the other so far, views and sales. The image with 30-40 keywords is a better image.

I think I may be a victim in this - I typically use 40+ keywords, and my FT sales have really begun to plummet.

Sounds like were in the same boat. Right after the search change about a month ago, most of my images got buried in the search, at least for my top 7 keywords. Its easy for me to track because I only have 400 images with similar search terms, most with 40+ keywords. However, sales have picked up since they added the popular search. Now, if they will just take care of my missing credits issue