I just got a message from one of the reviewers at Stocxpert

8955002: Massive Keyword spamming. Please ensure that you are using right set of keywords to describe a main subject. Please remove all unwanted keywords and then let me know when you finnish.

This is the picture:



Basically for an icon set done in chinese calligraphy style I thought all the keywords were appropriate:

asian brush bun Calligraphic calligraphic ceramic china chinese chopsticks clay clip-art clipart cookie cuisine dishes dumpling eat fish food fortune hot hotpot icons illustration ink meals meat oriental painting pot rice soup spoon style tea teapot wok

I need your opinions on this. Is this really keyword spamming, and if it is, what should I remove?  It's not really a big deal (i've been in microstock for almost 3 years, so i'm quite thick skinned by now), but this is the first time i've been accused of keyword spamming, massive or otherwise, and I don't feel it's justified.

Link here: http://www.stockxpert.com/browse.phtml?f=view&id=8955002

I guess they are cracking down (which I have no problem with) because I just got a "massive keyword spamming" message too. I had a look at the file in question and nothing jumped out at me as being wrong so I took out the ones that are not 100% relevant and resubmitted.

I think it is a good thing that they are tightening up the keyword submissions but sometimes one person might see a word as relevant but another might see the connection as vague. This is the first file I have bumped for this reason...

The reviewer is probably not in the know about the "Chinese" association ...

Mark

Update:
The file and keywords have been approved.

yay me!