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Stock ideas for Christmas: what you should NOT do

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ribtoks:
Hey folks

As a preparation to October stock photo ideas newsletter, I investigated Christmas as one of the topic. This led me to writing this short blogpost which, however, should be useful for contributors that are thinking what should they do for Christmas!

https://stockphotosideas.com/blog/christmas-photo-ideas/

Let me know what are you thoughts on Christmas? Have you already given up to find Christmas niches or you believe that they exist?

cascoly:

--- Quote from: ribtoks on September 25, 2021, 10:23 ---Hey folks

As a preparation to October stock photo ideas newsletter, I investigated Christmas as one of the topic. This led me to writing this short blogpost which, however, should be useful for contributors that are thinking what should they do for Christmas!
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A different takeaway on your statement: "keywords related to Christmas and, while being flooded with content, sees almost no traffic. "  reason not that there's no traffic, but that it's too late for xmas 2021 - ads starting in a few weeks, ad buys before that & design (ie, downloads) even earlier. time to start shooting for easter


on a more positive note - an interesting research project would track those keywords over 6+ months before a given holiday

ribtoks:

--- Quote from: cascoly on September 26, 2021, 13:38 ---  reason not that there's no traffic, but that it's too late for xmas 2021 - ads starting in a few weeks, ad buys before that & design (ie, downloads) even earlier. time to start shooting for easter

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No, it's no the case. It seems that you actually did not take a look at the keywords itself in the table below this sentence. Most keywords were broader topics related to winter and holidays, not Christmas. And actual statistics was aggregated over some time which definitely included time "6 months before Christmas". So the takeway is different from what you just said.

Justanotherphotographer:
Not sure what the value of this is. "Holiday Graphics" having virtually no traffic but loads of results probably just means people don’t use the search term "holiday graphics" when looking for holiday graphics, but instead use "Christmas background" or similar (to look for the exact same image).

Are these tips for better keywording rather than about what to actually shoot or produce?

ribtoks:

--- Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on September 27, 2021, 05:35 ---Not sure what the value of this is.
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The value is in:

a) choosing (or not choosing) general theme for your work (either photography, illustration etc.)
b) not targeting these specific keywords when doing keywording

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