Author Topic: Search analysis as a method of image tagging (Read 4714 times)

raresaturn · « **on:** January 31, 2015, 06:07 »

Saw this and thought it might be useful...thousands of searches on Dreamstime and Pond5, and the number of images found for each search

https://www.fiverr.com/bigbaddata [nofollow]

Justanotherphotographer · « **Reply #1 on:** January 31, 2015, 06:32 »

Wow thanks for thinking of us, and your first post too!

Does the list also tell us how many times each search has been made?

amabu · « **Reply #2 on:** January 31, 2015, 06:42 »

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However, If I search for "lazers" only 24 pics are tagged. This is a niche you can dominate.

Is that the niche of spelling mistakes?

raresaturn · « **Reply #3 on:** January 31, 2015, 07:00 »

Quote from: amabu on January 31, 2015, 06:42

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However, If I search for "lazers" only 24 pics are tagged. This is a niche you can dominate.

Is that the niche of spelling mistakes?

sure, why not? http://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/lazers.html [nofollow]

ShadySue · « **Reply #4 on:** January 31, 2015, 07:04 »

Quote from: amabu on January 31, 2015, 06:42

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However, If I search for "lazers" only 24 pics are tagged. This is a niche you can dominate.

Is that the niche of spelling mistakes?

In sites where it's possible, it's smart to include common spelling mistakes, especially if the site doesn't offer any sensible alternatives to the typo/mistake. Also alternate US/English spellings.

amabu · « **Reply #5 on:** January 31, 2015, 07:54 »

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Quote from: amabu on January 31, 2015, 06:42
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However, If I search for "lazers" only 24 pics are tagged. This is a niche you can dominate.

Is that the niche of spelling mistakes?

sure, why not? http://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/lazers.html

Because it is not a niche if you use the correct spelling: http://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/laser.html

raresaturn · « **Reply #6 on:** January 31, 2015, 07:58 »

Quote from: amabu on January 31, 2015, 07:54

Quote from: raresaturn on January 31, 2015, 07:00
Quote from: amabu on January 31, 2015, 06:42
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However, If I search for "lazers" only 24 pics are tagged. This is a niche you can dominate.

Is that the niche of spelling mistakes?

sure, why not? http://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/lazers.html [nofollow]

Because it is not a niche if you use the correct spelling: http://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/laser.html [nofollow]

So? The idea is to avoid tags with thousands of results. If you can find meaningful tags which lead to only a handful of images then you're laughing

amabu · « **Reply #7 on:** January 31, 2015, 08:00 »

Quote from: ShadySue on January 31, 2015, 07:04

Quote from: amabu on January 31, 2015, 06:42
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However, If I search for "lazers" only 24 pics are tagged. This is a niche you can dominate.

Is that the niche of spelling mistakes?
In sites where it's possible, it's smart to include common spelling mistakes, especially if the site doesn't offer any sensible alternatives to the typo/mistake. Also alternate US/English spellings.

I agree about alternate spellings. But aren´t you usually against keyword spamming?

amabu · « **Reply #8 on:** January 31, 2015, 08:03 »

Quote from: raresaturn on January 31, 2015, 07:58

Quote from: amabu on January 31, 2015, 07:54
Quote from: raresaturn on January 31, 2015, 07:00
Quote from: amabu on January 31, 2015, 06:42
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However, If I search for "lazers" only 24 pics are tagged. This is a niche you can dominate.

Is that the niche of spelling mistakes?

sure, why not? http://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/lazers.html

Because it is not a niche if you use the correct spelling: http://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/laser.html

So? The idea is to avoid tags with thousands of results. If you can find meaningful tags which lead to only a handful of images then you're laughing

But "lazers" is not meaningful! If you just make up words there are plenty of "niches" with 0 results...

raresaturn · « **Reply #9 on:** January 31, 2015, 08:21 »

Quote from: amabu on January 31, 2015, 08:03

Quote from: raresaturn on January 31, 2015, 07:58
Quote from: amabu on January 31, 2015, 07:54
Quote from: raresaturn on January 31, 2015, 07:00
Quote from: amabu on January 31, 2015, 06:42
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However, If I search for "lazers" only 24 pics are tagged. This is a niche you can dominate.

Is that the niche of spelling mistakes?

sure, why not? http://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/lazers.html [nofollow]

Because it is not a niche if you use the correct spelling: http://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/laser.html [nofollow]

So? The idea is to avoid tags with thousands of results. If you can find meaningful tags which lead to only a handful of images then you're laughing

But "lazers" is not meaningful! If you just make up words there are plenty of "niches" with 0 results...

It is meaningful to the person who typed it into the search box....remember these are real searches, not made up words. They may be typos or alternate spellings, but that is what these people were searching for.

Justanotherphotographer · « **Reply #10 on:** January 31, 2015, 08:23 »

Why can't you just honestly say that this is your product rather than coming on here pretending you stumbled across it. Especially when it is on that den of thieves, fiverr?

It's infuriating.

Red Dove · « **Reply #11 on:** January 31, 2015, 09:17 »

Worthless - correct spelling.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #12 on:** January 31, 2015, 10:11 »

All sites generally have terms that prohibit this kind of thing:
"You may not ... use any data mining, robots or similar data gathering and extraction tools on or at the Website or use any other automated means to access the Website;"

ShadySue · « **Reply #13 on:** February 02, 2015, 07:17 »

Spam is putting pear on a photo of an isolated apple, thereby polluting searches on 'pear'.Putting lazer as an alternative spelling isn't spam as there us no real 'lazer' search to be polluted. Presumably someone searching for lazer is actually looking for laser images.

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Quote from: ShadySue on January 31, 2015, 07:04
Quote from: amabu on January 31, 2015, 06:42
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However, If I search for "lazers" only 24 pics are tagged. This is a niche you can dominate.

Is that the niche of spelling mistakes?
In sites where it's possible, it's smart to include common spelling mistakes, especially if the site doesn't offer any sensible alternatives to the typo/mistake. Also alternate US/English spellings.

I agree about alternate spellings. But aren´t you usually against keyword spamming?

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