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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Microstock Services => Topic started by: DavidZydd on October 28, 2015, 17:03
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I've made a website that analyze keywords that ShutterStock customers potentially use in their searches:
http://www.stockkeyword.com/ (http://www.stockkeyword.com/)
FEATURES:
-This is a free online tool.
-It analyzes ShutterStock search results, as it's the biggest microstock site. These keyword trends are mostly similar on other stock sites.
-More than 3000 keywords already analyzed. Currently I add few hundred new keywords daily.
-The site provides data for the first 100 search results for every keyword.
-all images/photos/illustrations/vectors and popular/relevant searches
-The data shows competition factors and potential sale opportunities for each keyword.
-Each keyword page also shows the most important related keywords for every keyword. This way, it's easy to find the best keywords for your images.
-You can find new keyword ideas, that have great "estimated sale factor" and/or big "low competition factor".
-You can view all the keywords of the top 50 images on one page - it also helps proper keywording.
-Average and newest ID shows whether it's possible to get a new image into the first page for a given keyword, or it's reserved for ancient images. (low ID means old image)
-Related keywords are clickable, the site is easy-to-use.
If You're interested in a given keyword(s), reply to this post, and I'll add it/them in a few days!
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Hmmm......this looks like it should be good but it all seems rather complicated. I looked up 'cat' but can't begin to understand the significance of the numbers. Maybe you can explain?
average ID top10: 171 057 228
average ID top100: 156 319 257
newest ID top10: 302 691 488 (10.pos)
newest ID top100: 302 691 488 (10.pos)
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Hmmm......this looks like it should be good but it all seems rather complicated. I looked up 'cat' but can't begin to understand the significance of the numbers. Maybe you can explain?
average ID top10: 171 057 228
average ID top100: 156 319 257
newest ID top10: 302 691 488 (10.pos)
newest ID top100: 302 691 488 (10.pos)
ID-s are growing linearly, small ID means old picture, big ID means new picture:
200 000 000 --> submitted approx. 2014.06.20
300 000 000 --> submitted approx. 2015.07.15
(My first image was submitted to ShutterStock on 2014.01.09, it has an ID of 170 490 818 (http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=170490818) - it was never bought :) )
average ID top 100 means that the average submit time of the top 100 images was 2 years ago.
newest ID top100 that the newest image in the top 100 is about 3 months old
So, if the newest ID is below 200 000 000, it means that it's pretty hard to get a new image into the top 100.
The site use computes a formula - called "low competition factor". The bigger is this number, the easier to get into top 100 for that keyword.
Alone, this number tells nothing, but compare with the numbers of other keywords to find out, which keywords has lower competition.
Here are few examples of "low competition factor":
cat (http://www.stockkeyword.com/popular/images/c/cat.html): 134.56
kitten (http://www.stockkeyword.com/popular/images/k/kitten.html): 429.60
kiwi bird: 66704.75 (much less buyers search for this word, than for cat)
linx: 1560526.74 (it's a misspelled version of lynx - lynx we'll be online on today's update)
background: 0.84 (it's almost impossible to get into top 100)
estimated sale factor can be more important
The other usage of the site is to get keywords for your image. Little downward in the section called:
Top related keywords for CAT (images, popular search)
You can find the most important relevant keywords in order of importance. For example:
KEYWORD IMPORTANCE NUMBER IMPORTANCE/NUMBER
cat 9472 97 97.65
cute 4126 75 55.01
pet 3772 79 47.75
kitten 3596 68 52.88
animal 3213 76 42.28
white 2884 46 62.70
isolated 2162 47 46.00
vector 2033 23 88.39
mammal 1828 41 44.59
dog 1752 19 92.21
kitty 1743 49 35.57
feline 1717 56 30.66
portrait 1652 39 42.36
black 1625 29 56.03
fur 1513 35 43.23
background 1410 41 34.39
breed 1198 24 49.92
paw 1157 25 46.28
domestic 1058 68 15.56
young 1047 42 24.93
love 1038 21 49.43
funny 985 37 26.62
adorable 937 38 24.66
Add them except of the few irrevelant, then click on "kitten", for example.
Then add new keywords like: baby, small, sweet, etc...
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Thanks. Will have a look!