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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: takestock on August 20, 2008, 13:40
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You know when you think about it, the "Search" on all sites obviously plays a very vital role on how many sales we get.
Images sinking to the bottom/rising to the top.
It would be nice to know the exact criteria for each site but I suppose we never will.
Also, I'm led to believe that they are seemingly changed around every so often.
Anyone with any insight or views on this?
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Here is what I know about the search engines
Fotolia
changes too often. But order of keywords plays into it
Once it was number of keywords, now I do not know anymore
Dreamstime: as just mentioned number of similar keyword in title, description and keywords
iStock:
-Strong on age.
-Popularity dls/time
-Size
-exclusivity? Might be connected to the longer review time fornon-exclusives.
Stockxpert
-Very strong on dls and views
-Age plays a factor as well
Shutterstock
- very strong popularity dls/time
- Age: buyers looking very strong for new images. If your imagefails there, it might never be popular
Most stable is Dreamstime and Stockxpert. No change there for along time.
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Thanks for that Freezing!
Apologies if you thought I might be hijacking your other post about DT search.
It just came to mind about sites in general so I thought I'd open a new thread.
Cheers!
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Nothing to apologize :)