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...Curiously, I never easly find this image searching for obvious things like "stethoscope white background" or "stethoscope isolated", so it's really suprising that it sells well.
Yes, you have "stethoscope" and "white background", but you don't have "white" or "backgrounds", which you need because of the way iStock's search engine works.
Quote from: sharply_done on May 24, 2010, 10:27Yes, you have "stethoscope" and "white background", but you don't have "white" or "backgrounds", which you need because of the way iStock's search engine works. Actually I tried stethoscope "white background", but I'm sure very few people would use the quotation marks. And I didn't add the separate keywords because background alone doesn't make much sense. Should I add both anyway to any "white background"?
There's also one big huge caveat: You will incur a search penalty once you modify your keywords - I'm guessing they do this to discourage/counteract people trying to game the system.
Quote from: sharply_done on May 24, 2010, 12:55There's also one big huge caveat: You will incur a search penalty once you modify your keywords - I'm guessing they do this to discourage/counteract people trying to game the system.Is this written down somewhere? this is the first time for me to hear something like this and quite useful info for me to know if its true
Try it yourself: Note the best match placement of one of your images, modify the keywords, then check the best match placement after the changes take effect.
An admin (emyerson) told people at a lypse recently to review keywords regularly. If an image has a not very relevant keyword listed first then it will be pushed back in search for other more relevant keywords. I think the suggestion was to delete irrelevant keywords that are at the top of the keyword list.