Hi everyone. To dilute heavy Shutterstock topic with one less serious. I am focused on travel photo but often come across one question - does putting capital letters in keywords limit sale potential when buyer spells the word just in lower case letters? Example: I have just been keywording some photos from Barcelona, explicitly Bishop's Bridge. When I spell the name in capital letters in keyword field and buyer spells lower case does my picture pop up in search? I mentioned capitals are being shown as phrases among keywords in MS sites. I know I could use lower case in all situations but I simply do not like twisting grammar and sometimes like to copy long and complicated names of places around the world to avoid writing it from scratch.   

Capital letters generally don't make any difference, so nothing to worry about.

Quote from: TommyBoy on May 28, 2020, 10:57
Capital letters generally don't make any difference, so nothing to worry about.

Generally or they make no difference at all.  I can't find any examples of where a capitol letter, makes any difference in keywords, title or descriptions?

Thanks guys. It jus made me wonder "what if". Sales go to hell in new files so I'm looking for clues what to improve...

Quote from: Fyletto on May 28, 2020, 15:25
Thanks guys. It jus made me wonder "what if". Sales go to hell in new files so I'm looking for clues what to improve...

LOL we're always looking and most of the time if someone can't find something, they will make up a reason.  At least you found one that doesn't leave room for conspiracies, theories of how someone else is favored or why downloads/earnings have slowly been dropping for years.

One of the best ways to make metadata potentially better for yourself, is places like Adobe, where word order matters, and being very diligent about those first 10 words, and titles. Another is Alamy and the best use of Supertags. I haven't found anything I can do to create a more favorable rank on SS... yet! 

Anything you do, just keep in mind that changes can take from hours to days. Most of the time, overnight is good enough. What I mean is, ranks and changes are limited in how we can observe them for study. The changes might take a day or two, but we don't know how long for any re-rank. Using SS as the test, maybe there is never a re-rank boost, only declining favorable word rank. At which point, only sales will help and changing the keywords has little effect.

Adobe the rank is determined in the first 30 days, but adding new and better words after that, can at least make your images discoverable for those additional words.

you should not write "BEACH" or "Beach". It maybe will not be translated or split wrong, as recognized as a name of something.
= beach

good: New York City
bad in some cases: new york city

Realy critical if you make more "mistakes", e.g you add "a new york city"
Will be completely different and will be translated incorrectly

just my experience

I dunno for capitals but double names seem a trouble for places for me.
Does non native search for Chalkidiki or Halkidiki (same place)
Metaggitsi, Metagkitsi, Metaggitsion, or Metagitsi? (same village, (good taverns ))
Thessaloniki, Thesaloniki, Thessalonica, Salonika, Salonica, Solun (same city)
Agio Oros, Agion Oros, Ayo Oros, Mt Agio, Holy Mountain, Athos (same mountain)

edited to add more versions, hm...