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2526
« on: November 19, 2007, 21:51 »
I've just had 7 approved in less than half a day 
2527
« on: November 17, 2007, 11:52 »
It's worth putting ELs at top price allowed. I sell the same amount at 100$ as when I had them at 10$.
2528
« on: November 17, 2007, 07:11 »
I agree with sharpshot some of his best match images aren't particularly suitable for the majority of US buyers but ridiculous to say that none are. ....None of your images that show up in the best match search on the first page of your portfolio would be usable in the US.
I disagree with you there. Most of my downloads are from the US, to say none of those images is usable in the US is preposterous.
2529
« on: November 17, 2007, 04:01 »
Including ELs since the beginning of October until now.
StockXpert 1.00
FT .90
IS .72
SS .34
DT 1.2
ELs
IS has 1 x 25$
FT has 2 X 100$ ELs
DT has 1 X 50$ EL
SS has 2 x 20$ this month and I don't remember last month.(maybe 3 or 4)
Don't usually get many ELs but it has been great lately. ( 5 this week over 4 days)
2530
« on: November 17, 2007, 03:44 »
Including ELs since the beginning of October until now. StockXpert 1.00 FT .90 IS .72 SS .34 DT 1.2 FT has 2 X 100$ ELs DT has 1 X 50$ EL SS has 2 x 20$ this month and I don't remember last month.(maybe 3 or 4) Don't usually get many ELs but it has been great lately. ( 5 this week over 4 days)
2531
« on: November 16, 2007, 03:35 »
Same here but although they are being a bit too picky they are usually right and a little adjustment gets it accepted. . My rejection problems are only with IS - mostly for "over filtered" and "artifacts". It's very typical for me to have an image accepted everywhere - even Crestock - only to have IS reject it.
2532
« on: November 14, 2007, 14:03 »
Achillles is DT not istock
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I was not aware that acceptance rate was part of the best match search, however DL/image was confirmed and has been part of the best match for as long as I've been at iStock. When did Achilles say that acceptance rate was part of the best match search?
There's no economic justification for including acceptance rate (not that I care because my 80.46% is good) because it doesn't impact relevance of the image to the search, nor does it reflect popularity of the image.
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2533
« on: November 14, 2007, 01:01 »
Your probably right then. I have the same acceptance rate on IS and when there was a thread about it I didn't seem to do very well against lots of the people posting their rates so I assumed that DT was the same but then maybe only those with very high rates bothered posting. My dl/ image ratio is over 9 and in one search which produces 2500 results 12 of the first 13 are mine. I can't think of any other reason they are there other than a high dl/ image ratio. My acceptance rate is about 81% which is fairly high but not over high so if it's not that then I don't know what it is as some of the images haven't had many dls yet.
I believe that it is your high acceptance rate that is getting your images to the front page. 81% is quite high. There was a thread where contributors stated their acceptance ratio and the average was around 62%. Here is the thread for reference: http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php?topic=1177.0
2534
« on: November 14, 2007, 00:53 »
I hadn't thought about that. I wondered why my fiotw at IS and my free image of the day at DT both went on to sell very well after being downloaded free 1000's of times. The one at DT is I believe in my top 10 sellers. (can't check at the moment as DT seems to be down. Isn't one idea of giving stuff away for free to have it downloaded hundreds of times so that it has a very good search engine placement once you resume charging for it?
2535
« on: November 13, 2007, 15:29 »
My dl/ image ratio is over 9 and in one search which produces 2500 results 12 of the first 13 are mine. I can't think of any other reason they are there other than a high dl/ image ratio. My acceptance rate is about 81% which is fairly high but not over high so if it's not that then I don't know what it is as some of the images haven't had many dls yet.
2536
« on: November 13, 2007, 14:46 »
The ironic thing is that the same clumping of images by contributor happens at Dreamstime in their Best Match sort order (which is called Relevancy), but nobody seems to care. For example, if you search for "blueprint" on Dreamstime the same sort of clumping by contributor appears. Why is it that if it happens on one site people go crazy, but if it happens on another site people don't care???
I think that this is because on DT it is because of the way the best match works rather than manipulation by contributors. The DT relevancy search definitly seems to favour images by photographers with a high Dls/image ratio and high acceptance rate so you find a lot by one particular contributor on the first page of the search.
2537
« on: November 13, 2007, 09:55 »
Simply re-upload. The same happended to me after uploading dozens of images with the same release they suddenly realized that it said Istock in small print at the bottom and rejected some.
After you have uploaded the new one write to support and get them to assign all your images using the old release to the new release or they won't all show up in the section where you can see more images by the same model.
2538
« on: November 13, 2007, 01:47 »
I've just said on another thread that I am getting more subs now but that the level change has more than made up the difference and sales in general are very good there at the moment.
2539
« on: November 13, 2007, 01:45 »
. There also seems to be some type of correlation between the size of the image (XXL) and how it ranks in best match searches
I think that was just because these people or person was uploading xxl images so as they had so many images on the first page it looked like xxl was being given priority. So don't all rush out and get a camera expecting to get on the first page
2540
« on: November 13, 2007, 01:36 »
I'm not getting many subs. yet. I had 10 sales yesterday and none of them were subs.
I am getting more at DT now but the level change has made up for the loss in price and my average sale price is usually near to 1.50$. I'm getting quite a few sales of between 1.50$ and 4$.
2541
« on: November 12, 2007, 15:51 »
It says istock at the bottom of the form, make sure that you delete that as well.
2542
« on: November 12, 2007, 05:59 »
I've just taken a look and it doesn't show to me. so it doesn't show to anyone else but me....
Just so long as I don't have my email spread online.
2543
« on: November 11, 2007, 12:10 »
I didn't mean to spam keywords but to make sure that you have all relevant keywords. I have seen images of a child with the word child missing from the keywords, etc etc. Keywording is one of the most important things. There's no point having wonderful photos if nobody can find them.
It's probably true. But I don't agree at 100%. For the example of an orange taken in macro, you have about 30 keywords who are good and 10 at the limit to be.
2544
« on: November 11, 2007, 04:13 »
Nobody is saying that position in best match search isn't important just that reviews make none or very littly difference to what the position is.
My best rated photos don't do well in the searches generally but I have a lot of images that show on the first page of searches with none or very few reviews.
2545
« on: November 11, 2007, 04:08 »
Keywording is one of the most important things. There's no point having wonderful photos if nobody can find them.
2546
« on: November 10, 2007, 14:36 »
Looking at my portfolio ratings seem to have very little or nothing to do with position in search.
2547
« on: November 10, 2007, 14:31 »
1.21$ last month which was my BME. It beat IS for the first time.
2548
« on: November 10, 2007, 02:00 »
StockXpert was the last site I joined of the 5 sites that I upload to. Like you I found them very slow to get started but they are now slowly starting to catch up with fotolia and dreamstime.
2549
« on: November 10, 2007, 01:56 »
I think sites that have like a weekly or daily free photo is good. But if they have an entire section with thousands of free photos like Fotolia and Dreamstime, it just hurts sales overall. I think so at least.
I totally agree with this. It doesn't seem good business sense to me to have a whole section free. I'm sure that most buyers will check out that section first and often find something suitable resulting in a loss of a sale. I've had the same experience as yingyang0 on both DT and SS in that a free image has gone on to be one of my best earners which amazed me given the 1000's of times that they were downloaded free.
2550
« on: November 10, 2007, 01:50 »
That's just one of the things figured into the popular search I read on the forums that they also take into consideration the overall Dls/ image number. Many of you are wondering why your sales aren't doing so well at DT.
Well, it seems that it has a lot to do with your acceptance rate. If you have a high rate of acceptance, then your images will be nicely displayed at the top of search results. If your acceptance rate is lower, then your images will be farther back in the search results. The lower your acceptance rate, the farther back your images will be in the search results.
IMO, this is a poor way to create a sort order that is labeled "Relevancy".
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