I have 8 photos here for about 3 months. When I first submitted to them they accepted some of my images. Now I didn't have an accepted file for 2 months, maybe 3. Everything gets rejected.
...and by the way, not even one single sale...

   Bauman, I can see from your numbers that after an EL your sales have also diminished. And for two months. For me is like for a week. Then everything to normal- average of one a day. 20 pictures or 200, doesn't matter - one a day 

   Sometimes I think they look at your $, not at the number of dlds. My revenue per dld is 0.75$ at SS, so I think it's over the average. My concern is about no. of dlds that is not growing with the port, not for $, cause as I said, the 0.25 dlds are 30% of my earnings by now. When I have an EL(it happened twice),  I know will see 4-5 days without any dlds. Seems like someone says: "Now it's enough for you. You'll have to wait for a while"

   Thanks for the replies. Although I find some of them true and logical, it seems that weird things do happen with my images. They are not commercial pictures and I am a beginner in photography, but I can't understand why I don't have dlds on files that show in the first page at popular after 3-4 months. For eg, I have a wildlife picture(not commercial, I know) of a roe deer. It is a picture of a wild animal, and I see that these pictures sell better than the ones taken in enclosures. It had 6 dlds in the first 2 weeks, then nothing. After 3 months another one. Now, if you search for "roe deer", it's on the first row of the first page from 15 pages. If you simply go for "deer", it's on the second page from 326. Now it is there for a long time without dlds. Why it was downloaded first and now nothing? I really don't know how they can mannipulate the searches, or if our searches resembles the custumer's. I have another eg, and then I stopped searching, as I found these egs. very illogical.
   And I checked the earnings for the last 3 months, cause some of you said that only new content from my port sell, as the older images are not commercial enough and they drown in the big library: 20% of the earnings from last 3 months is from new content. Now maybe the problem is that my new content is only cr@p.
   Another thing that I don't understand is why I have 4-5 days with sales and then 3-4 without any. It's a pattern that comes on and on for months.
   Anyway, thanks a lot for the replies as I find something to learn from them.

   Hello all. I'm new in microstock, having a little port, but wondering why my numbers are so flat.
   Now, I was accepted to SS at the end of March, from the second attempt.
   My numbers are (no of pictures at the beginning of month):
april         44 files          19dlds
may         74 files          29dlds
june       113 files          27dlds
july        171 files          31dlds

   Now I have 203 files, and guess how many dlds in 24th of the month...I would like to say 24, but no, only 23. The day isn't over, so probably I will have  24 till tomorrow . I don't know wo said "sales will go up and down" - he was wrong . Sales remain exactly the same for me. It is weird that despite of increase of port, no of dlds is the same. I know it's a little port but anyway...In fact, the only agency where I can see an increase is IS.
   Another weird thing is that my earnings from subscriptions are very low, about 30% of all I earned. The rest are ELs, ODs, and one SOD.
   And another: max number of dlds per day still remains 3. I had three dlds in a day back in march, with something like 15 pictures. It seems that it's like a wall.
   Two weeks back I decided to add keywords to my pictures, as I had many with 20-25. So I added to a minimum of 40. Guess what, no improve in dlds. I simply don't understand.
   Thank you in advance for sharing your opinion.

   Hello. I'm new in this forum and in microstock too. Today I've reached fist payment from SS, after 3 months and a half, and now having 171 pics. The payment will be only next month I think, since I reached the 75$ today. Happy about it but concerned about the way I made it. Now having 85 $, with two ELs. So my normal dlds are really poor. I don't know if it's good or bad, and want to ask about  your opinion. I have only photos, not vectors, and I'm a begginer in photography, having a DSLR for less then a year. Thank you.
  PS: I've opened another topic on newbie, then I saw that it will be seen only by the people with less than 50 posts. As I want the reply of those with more experience, I opened another here. Please delete the first, cause I don't find how to delete it. Thank you