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shedule time for (re)upload images

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Uncle Pete:

--- Quote from: kall3bu on October 31, 2020, 11:47 ---#Alternately, don't upload everything at first and instead spread your uploads of a specific shoot, which if they get a view would direct people to your others and similar.#

That is indeed the better idea which I just do a few weeks now with all new images.

If I did it like you (Uncle Pete) advised me from the beginning, it would indeed work for the a specific shoot with more "similar" images.

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Everyone has to figure out what's best for their own work and idea for the future. Just because I work one way, doesn't mean everyone else can't have a better personal direction.

No I don't upload similar images. I make (usually) one best image and that's it. Some people would rather make 50 similar and hope that moving that salt shaker an inch, will make the sale. I don't believe that matters and it's a waste of time. Of course... I could be wrong?  ;)

I think that less is more, and my images won't compete with my other images. When you go to the store and see a display of {pick some item} any hypothetically there are 50 red ones, 50 yellow and two blue, which one do you tend to buy for your own? The ones that are like everyone else or something a little more different?

Microstock shopper, looks for {image of something} and sees page after page that are similar or much alike, but there's one that stands out as different. Which do they buy? Mine!  ;D That's my theory.

Others think, heck, I have 50 shots of the same fried eggs, one has to be more interesting because it's got  all the silver, the shakers, the cup of juice, all in the precise position that the buyer wants. Are buyers really that complex and specific or do they download what they need and get on with work. Before you jump on that, keep in mind, top of the first page of the search sells best and top of page two sells better than the bottom of page one. By the time people look at page 3, they are less and less likely to download your image, if that's where it is. My point isn't just placement, but how picky are buyers, when "good enough" fits the needs? They don't go through 20 pages, looking for the exact, perfect image.

Why does Alamy have the diversity algorithm. And most other now do something similar.

https://www.shutterstock.com/search/two+eggs+bacon+sunny+side+up+isolated

Two of these are mine, and the best one isn't.  :-[

I liked this one best:


Anyway, yes I think spreading out uploads is a better way for someone who wants to have more images seen and maybe more buyers, discover their other similar images.

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