Good job taking this thief down. I ran into a few over the years and it's never a good experience. It's a good thing SS is quick to respond with portfolio take downs.

You could have sent them the link to your portfolio and ask them to do a search within your portfolio. That would have made things simpler.

i'm not concerned about competition..the problem is that thousand of poor files add to the mass of million poor files so when buyer search for terms they find everything but the terms searched...as you can see doing some easy research...and so buyer look only for popular photos killing any hopes to sell new files.

but i suspect most of people here don't live about stock but are only amateur.

You are clearly concerned about the competition. You may think your portfolio is godsend, but others will probably think it's mediocre and you're adding your mediocre images to an already saturated market that distracts buyers from buying good images.

You need to stop complaining about everything, especially about new contributors. Don't forget that you were a newbie once who wanted some success in the Microstock industry. If your work is so amazing, you shouldn't be concerned with new contributors, unless you're really not as good as you say you are.

They need to backfill every images, so I think it�ll take a few weeks for it to propagate to their entire collection.

I don't think there is any difference if you have keywords with comma or not, for example "red, potato" or "red potato" and buyer searches for "red potato"

I don't think it matters. I like to keep all my keywords separate as in red, potato. Some people just put the keyword 'potato' in there and calls it a day. There are over 550k results for 'potato' and 125K results for 'red potato'. I think it's obvious which one you have a better chance with.

you're talking like you're a bigtime expert to all those contributors reporting a shortfall of 50% like you were with sh*tterstock longer than them . like as though they are green behind their ears and not know how to keyword properly. they were making lots of money for many years and then suddenly they forgot how to keyboard properly, except for you LOL

In the beginning, you don't need to keyword properly. All you had to do was upload, put in some basic keywords and everything sells like hotcakes without much competition. It's no different than websites in the early days of the internet that doesn't require meticulous SEO like today. With so much competition today, mediocre keywording just doesn't cut it anymore.

I've looked at a lot of portfolios and majority of contributors don't know how to keyword properly. Most contributors rely on single keywords instead of longtail keywording techniques. Some use too few keywords. Many contributors treat keywording as a chore, so they put very little effort into it. So yes, you can still be inexperienced despite being in the game for a long time.

It doesn't matter to me if some people think I'm some pretend expert. Results are the only thing that matters to me. I had 3 large SODs a few days ago, all from the same set. If the buyer didn't find one of my images, he wouldn't have bought all 3. Those sales could have gone to someone else. I see keywording as being in the right place at the right time.

Quote from: Mantis on July 09, 2017, 15:11

Quote from: Dumc on July 09, 2017, 13:37

If you have 10 days without a single sale, you should re-evaluate your images first, instead of trying to come up with some conspiracy theroies.

Completely wrong recommendation if you have a selling port.  What if I have a year of great sales then those same images stop selling altogether for 10 days? I am to attribute that to my portfolio? That's just funny man.

Exact.

And it is not always a question of the quality of the images.
It can be a question of the the quality of the description and keywords.
I had some good images not selling at all because the description was not accurate, and so the keywords.
6 - 8 months after I had edited the descriptions and the keywords these images have begun to sell.
Why 6 - 8 months, this is a mystery for me, but I think that it is the time needed to the system to reindex the full portfolio (?)

As far as I know, new images and changes get indexed within 24 hours. It probably took a while for someone to download your image for the first time. When that happens, the ranking of that image changes and depending on how many competing images are there, your image can move up a lot or very little. Once it moves up the search results, it makes it easier for people to find, resulting in more downloads.

I haven't noticed any change. If there was a shortcut to Today's daily sale on the Dashboard, I haven't found it. I usually go the the Earnings Summary and then click on the day to see the sales.

I recommend the app...so much easier to use.

https://us.fotolia.com/Info/Contact

Send them a message here. Just let them know about the copyright infringement and who is infringing and they should respond fairly quickly.

Not bad, but not great. 10% drop from May on SS. FT remained the same. A fairly sizeable drop on 123RF.

Overall a decent month. I don't think July will be any better now that we're entering the vacation season.

No offense friend, but your posts are getting a bit spammy. It's time to reign it in a bit and find other channels to market your book.

Averaging about 4000 in the last few months.