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Title: Alphabetical Keywords
Post by: SLP_London on April 18, 2013, 09:50

Novice newbie here ....

I'm Keywording in Adobe Lightroom and keywords are exported in Alphabetical order - is that sufficient and standard practice?

Would there be any benefit to ordering keywords in terms of relevance/importance or is that just nonsense?

I know that Fotolia gives you the option to re-order the keywords, but that is seriously laborious and time consuming!

Many thanks

Title: Re: Alphabetical Keywords
Post by: SLP_London on April 18, 2013, 17:34

Umm, no responses ... I guess either this has been discussed so much in the past, that everyones bored by the question, or else everyones just keeping their cards close to there chest!

Any pointers anyone?

Thanks

Title: Re: Alphabetical Keywords
Post by: ShadySue on April 18, 2013, 18:04

iStock: doesn't matter; system will eventually rearrange them into most relevant anyway according to views and sales. At least that's what's supposed to happen.

Alamy: matters a lot (in theory) because of their time consuming system of essential keywords, main keywords, comprehensive keywords, but in fact looking at my own measures (stats) I can see keywords mixed and matched from any and all sections, including the caption and the locations. (NB, the description is not searchable.)

No idea about the others, sorry.

Title: Re: Alphabetical Keywords
Post by: fotografer on April 18, 2013, 18:05

It makes uploading to Alamy much easier if the keywords are in order of relevancy and the first 7 keywords at Fotolia were always weighted more heavily in the searches but I'm not sure if that is still the case.