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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: leaf on October 06, 2006, 05:29
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I didn't really think much of it, until I saw a post in another forum.
Anyone else have an exceptionally slow day at istock yesterday?
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Nope - best this week. Wednesday was slowest day by quite a bit.
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ah ok.. just as I thought.
a regular day.. with unregularly slow sales for me.
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Yeah, I had only 2 DLs yesterday on IS. It's been slow all week. With me, I think it's the issue with the keywords. I'm spending a lot of time working with that, as files of mine that normally would show in the search weren't coming up. I found they would if I used a tag phrase. Needless to say, I miss the old system.
G~
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Been a better-than-average week for me. Got a few files accepted and 1 - 3 sales each day. My prior weeks have been easy to beat. ;)
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This entire week has been horrible for me. :-\
Mark
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I see the complaints are beggining to pile up on the IS forums too. Even the bigger sellers are complaining.
What I'm doing is going through my better selling pictures and inputing phrases. It seems to help. Well, phrases that it will accept. It's picky about that too. For example, for one picture, it took "mexican pryamids" but not "aztec pyramids." And things like that.
G~
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It has been a good week for me.....higher than average
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Yesterday was my best day ever in istock and today is good as well. Have been spending a lot of time this week on keywording and it has definatly helped as my downloads have been down the last couple of weeks. Also the new 'best match' ordering seems to be benefiting me.
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I was doing okay until this morning when I hit $99.20! :(
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i wonder if some searchers are having a hard time searching for images now. (not that that is an excuse for low sales for me yesterday though)
Yesterday I wanted to find an image of a log in a fire place. I searched for fire log. Istock AUTOMATICALLY put quotes around and only took images of "fire log".. and so lots of images weren't included in the results. After a few tries I finally typed just fire, and then the results came up and THEN I typed in ' in the simply search with this word box' log and got the search ressults I was trying for.
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Yesterday I wanted to find an image of a log in a fire place. I searched for fire log. Istock AUTOMATICALLY put quotes around and only took images of "fire log".. and so lots of images weren't included in the results. After a few tries I finally typed just fire, and then the results came up and THEN I typed in ' in the simply search with this word box' log and got the search ressults I was trying for.
Leaf:
If you want to get around the automatic conversion of words into phrases, then reverse the words. So in your case, you would enter "log fire" (without the quotes). This will give you the same results as if you ANDed the two words and it will bypass the automatic conversion.
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wow, that is confusing.
What difference should it make if i type in
log fire
or
fire log
???
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wow, that is confusing.
What difference should it make if i type in
log fire
or
fire log
???
??? confusing, That, IS, wow...
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wow, that is confusing.
What difference should it make if i type in
log fire
or
fire log
???
I am confused too. ONe will search for Log fire and the other fire log. Though I assume you were looking for a log fire (since it will be a fire with a log in it).
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wow, that is confusing.
What difference should it make if i type in
log fire
or
fire log
???
Under the old KEYWORD-based system, it wouldn't make any difference. The order of the keywords when searching wouldn't make a difference in the world.
But under the new TAG-based system, it can make a world of difference.
1. The SEARCH WORDS "log fire" without the quotes gets tranlated to the TAG PHRASE "Log Fire" which currently contains 28 matches. This is also the equivalent of "log fires" without the quotes.
2. The SEARCH WORDS "fire log" without the quotes gets translated to the TAGS "fire" AND "log" which currently contains 532 matches. This search is also the equivalent of "log AND fire", "fire AND log", "logs fire", "logs fires", "fire logs", "fires log" and "fires logs" (all without the quotes).
A better example would be a search for a phrase that is more common, such as a movie ticket.
1. The SEARCH WORDS "movie ticket" without the quotes gets translated to the TAG PHRASE "Movie Ticket" which currently contains 7 matches. The following SEARCH WORDS (without quotes) would produce the same results:
2. The SEARCH WORDS "ticket movie" without the quotes gets translated to the TAGS "ticket AND movie". Depending on the meaning of "movie" (entertainment event or entertainment building or combination of both) you will receive 165 matches, 233 matches, or 288 matches respectively. This search is also the equivalent of "movie AND ticket" without the quotes.
In other words, SEARCH WORDS get translated to TAGS or TAG PHRASES. Then the TAGS/TAG PHRASES are used to search the database and return the results.
WHEW!
So are you more confused now ;D
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I've had a smashing week! Take a lok at the stats after 6 days(1st october to 6th october):