I actually got couple sales there before I sent them a DVD. Now I have over 1700 pictures there and one sale so I think they do not have enough traffic to generate sales. I think they still got better chance to survive than YAY and other newcomers because of huge financial support from Corbis. Soon all smaller sites should fold down due to economic crisis and these guys still should live on their parent money.

I did not login to my account for a while and it was surprise to me today. No files. I hope they do backup.

I got more than 1500 images online there and first sale of $10 priced image. Not much traffic, best photo got only 30 views.

I usually do not keyword for any specific agency so I prefer specific keywords over generic ones. I would rather keep only "pumpkin" and get rid of generic ones. More over some of this generic ones like "horizontal" can be auto generated (width > height). Soon every site might have face recognition software which may tell if there are people present :-)

Come on, you can get not-so-latest version of PhotoShop Elements for couple dollars and it's still better than Gimp. Unless you are designer you should live ok with it.  Gimp is not ready for main stream consumers. Authors think that most important is to be different than PS, de facto industry standard.

Some sites impose upload limits so I would rather send them DVD and let them deal with my whole portfolio at once than waiting for years to upload it.

I guess nobody knows for sure. Try to check what agencies want and what sells there. Here is a blog entry which tries to summarize this:
http://www.microstockdiaries.com/what-not-to-submit.html

I was always puzzled about these calculations.

1. Monthly income  / total no. of images - does not make any sense cause it will keep going down when you add more photos
2. Total income / total no. of images  - makes more sense cause you can see whole pictures but you might no see monthly results
3. Monthly income / no. of images upload a month - it's kind of unclear cause different images might be downloaded and uploaded
4. Monthly income / no. of downloads - this would indicate structure of downloads (sub to credit ratio)

SS   61.49%
123RF   13.67%    (BME)
StockXpert   10.48%
DT   8.51%   (BME)
IS   2.51%   (BME)
BS   1.89%
FT   1.44%
SV   0.57%

Overall 18% less than in August due to poor SS performance. Finally reached payout at StockXpert and 123RF. 123RF and DT performed quite well in comparison to previous months so maybe it would start a trend.

I got plenty of them but I sent out DVDs with 3000 pictures so I will have goods stats showing what kind of photos they are interested in when they finish processing.

Yes I observed the same thing this month, I cannot beat my BME back in June

For me it was going up every month till August then stopped at the beginning  of September.

I guess I got 10 days on average.  My question is if my queue is also blocked for 10 days cause it seems like I cannot add anything if my slots are not available. This way 15 per week is not possible.