Author Topic: Cleaning up your portfolio (Read 3973 times)

CofkoCof · « **on:** August 25, 2008, 04:52 »

Do you ever go trough your portfolio and delete the old files that don't sell? I've learned a lot about stock in the last few months since I started and when I look at some of my first images I'm pretty sure they have very little chance of selling. So now I'm thinking if it's wise to delete some of the poor images to give my portfolio a more appealing look?

leaf · « **Reply #1 on:** August 25, 2008, 05:30 »

i have wondered that, especially for istock. I wonder if my poor images are hurting the sales of my better (more recent) images.

Jack Schiffer · « **Reply #2 on:** August 25, 2008, 05:57 »

I just sold for the first time an image that i uploaded in 2004
I would not delete it old photos

leaf · « **Reply #3 on:** August 25, 2008, 06:08 »

I wouldn't delete them if i knew for sure they weren't hurting sales. If that was the case, we would be spending time (money) to take away images that could be sold (more money)

HOWEVER.. if every non selling images brings down your search placement that is a big problem. Search placement is THE factor in selling or not selling images... so if I can get rid of 100 images that sell once every year and bring my top 100 images to the top of the search engine making them sell every week, or better - every day... it would be well worth it.

Jack Schiffer · « **Reply #4 on:** August 25, 2008, 06:24 »

Leaf
I would agree the pictures in series may hurt your search placement but if your portfolio is very diverse it wouldn't think it would hurt.

Peter · « **Reply #5 on:** August 25, 2008, 06:42 »

about a month ago, I delted about 250 images from my fotolia portfolio. they were old ones, and didnt like them.

dnavarrojr · « **Reply #6 on:** August 25, 2008, 08:03 »

I look at the very first clips I uploaded to a footage site a couple of years ago and I cringe at how bad they are in my eyes. In two years, they never sold and I was seriously considering deleting them.

Then WHAM! Out of nowhere, one day, 3 out of the 5 sold to the same person.

So, I've decided to leave them up.

vonkara · « **Reply #7 on:** August 25, 2008, 08:48 »

I think we should all delete our bad images for keeping the search clean. But I don't do it myself. I'm looking to do it when I will have the time.

Peiling · « **Reply #8 on:** August 25, 2008, 10:01 »

Looks like a good idea to delete but it takes time.

RH · « **Reply #9 on:** August 25, 2008, 11:52 »

Hi Mitja,

yes, i´ve cleaned up my portfolio on IS.

lisafx · « **Reply #10 on:** August 25, 2008, 12:23 »

I'm curious how leaving them on the site would hurt your search placement. This is a new one on me.

As I understand it most of the older images that aren't big sellers work their way to the back of the search anyway. So while they might not get good search positions and sell, I don't see how they would affect the positions of your newer or better selling images.

Is search placement on istock based partly on the performance of your entire portfolio?

vonkara · « **Reply #11 on:** August 25, 2008, 12:33 »

Quote from: leaf on August 25, 2008, 05:30

i have wondered that, especially for istock. I wonder if my poor images are hurting the sales of my better (more recent) images.

It's a good question. You have a limited amount of images who show in the first hundred pages if I remember correctly. Let say 5 in the first hundred. Then if you have 5 pictures showing about the same keywords, maybe the 6th will show out of the first hundred...

What I think it's the only way then for a new image to be one of your 5 in the first pages, it's for this file to be downloaded more often than one of the 5 images already there. Or maybe when the search show the newer first, one of your old one get in the back. It could explain why some of the good sellers sometimes stop selling like before... Maybe

louoates · « **Reply #12 on:** August 25, 2008, 13:03 »

I'd hope that non-selling images would be deleted from the site automatically after, say, 12 or 24 months of zero sales. But I also think that the sites have a vested image on total number of images they have available. If I were a site owner I'd advertise a "Crap Meter" that showed that my site has less junk to wade through.

What about awarding each contributor a "recycle" fee for deleting images? Or a contest for the worst stock image in your portfolio?

leaf · « **Reply #13 on:** August 25, 2008, 13:15 »

Quote from: lisafx on August 25, 2008, 12:23

Is search placement on istock based partly on the performance of your entire portfolio?

well that is what i am wondering. I don't know but i wonder if it is true on istock.
- i am trying to find rationalizations of why my portfolio in istock is performing so poorly. I have a lot of old, poor images on there and a few newer ones which i am quite a bit happier with and I hope are better, but none of them are really selling that hot.

vonkara · « **Reply #14 on:** August 25, 2008, 13:46 »

Quote from: leaf on August 25, 2008, 13:15

I have a lot of old, poor images on there and a few newer ones which i am quite a bit happier with and I hope are better, but none of them are really selling that hot.

I see also this happening with my newer images. The ones who are selling are about the same and are the older ones mostly. But it can be my subjects choice who's making this effect also

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