I'm pretty sure it does make a difference. I wrote about it in my blog recently and I am not about 70% of the way through changing the keywords of all my files (all 5000 of them...)

Steve

http://www.backyardsilver.com/2016/11/adobe-stock-keyword-order/

Yes, that Deckers Creek was an example that if you have a relatively unique term, then it doesn't need to take up one of those early keywords. I agree with you on that. In terms of the description - well, I understand that Fotolia/Adobe drop the description and only use the title - which tends in my images to have fewer characters and words and can be a bit bland I suppose. I know that Stock Submitter (which I really like using now - and did review back in this post: http://www.backyardsilver.com/2016/12/stocksubmitter-elegant-replacement-stockuploader/) does allow you to switch the title and description for upload to Fotolia, so I should probably investigate that for future shots. I don't actually know how long the title can be on Fotolia to be honest.

Having said that, I have no idea how they look at words in the title and prioritize them. I would certainly try to get the main theme of the image in both the title and the first keywords - I think that is a good practice to follow anyway. Since I wrote my blog post about keyword order, I have seen other files pop up in the sales reports that have never sold before, so I'm sure it is making a difference - it takes many hours to restructure keywords and so that shows how I feel about it!

Steve