Seems problems started from yesterday - i saw something strange with mobile app - changed last activity image, but this image didn't appear in sold images.

This month I sold only one image! That is very strange even for my port 

Check if they didn't modify your keywording. For me it was too often and corresponded to sales stop for images they touch. Classic example - removed key word "shrimps" from image where were only shrimps, nothing else, but they added "many" and "objects". Before i edited after them, then decided to not throw my time to this ...

Uploaded by FTP - no problem with IPTC

Quote from: Teddy the Cat on May 23, 2015, 15:19

It's probably because he has 30,000 plus images they will see him as a major contributor and cut some slack

Well, from the 12 pages of images of "Candy" (of all sorts) that I looked at on his portfolio, before I got bored and stopped clicking forward, I'm guessing that his entire 30,000+ collection probably consists of (maybe) 40-50 different subjects.

That SS is allowing those shots into its collection right now, when they're excluding so much other work, truly is depressing.

And actually this gives right to exist many conspiracy theories. Kind of a proof.

It is very relevant for people to try to research environment where they do their business.
BTW - if all above is not relevant why to bother to write complex redirection functionality? Search engines still are leading by visits count. That's why everybody pais attention to it.

I noted correlation between volume of sales and how my images are referenced from google search results. I think this thing is between google and ss. In days when images have direct links to their pages, i have more sales, in days when click "view page" shows search result with the same keywords on ss site, but not the selected image page, i have much less sales. Click view image in such day will show just a thumb without any link to download. Generally percentage of images from ss on google searches is dropped and place is taken by dt, 123, dp. For me this explains raise of sales on all other sites.

I was not affected by rejection problem but didn't upload several months. Returned from new trip and will try to send some images which i can share to micros. Had before near 100% acceptance. Will see what changed. Time is very expensive thing

Had situation with removed essential keywords often at IS too. Cannot believe that it is random. It is work for hire

Actually we can provide a space for hosting of licenses texts on our website.
Texts will be not editable, every license variant will be a version of a base license and source/author mentioned.
License author should be agree that this text will be exposed publicly and can be used as any kind of copy or as a link by anybody.
I think this service can be completely free, but if you, photostockers, are interested, please contribute your texts.
Clearly, these should not be copies of licenses texts from existing entities. If they provide confirmation for publication and linking and usage permission, then no problem.

Company which supports search engine is acting like an agency. There are expenses, knowledge, time invested. The only difference that problem of give away for free or removing of photos will go away. We are working on one kind of solution and it is not just a search engine, otherwise it is no hope project.  Many things will go in offline mode because of sales work. I think in case of traditional agencies this offline work is not visible for many people too. Feedbacks from potential customers are often contradicting with interests of photographers. Yes i see that buyers side tries to press and always referencing examples of agencies like yay, ft etc. These people cannot be our clients because they actually want to receive for free but with legal protection. In the same time we discovered many niches and future of stock imagery exists.

In my account there "no" for free section, but submission stops and message tells that i have "yes" for free section and in case of rejection image will be given away for free. I deleted files. BTW FTP worked increadible fast

Image quality issues at FAA forced me to restrict acceptance in groups which i manage. We started to use groups for collections presentations for our clients. So even i was not a reviewer at SS, i do some kind of curation and people can get upset in case if they want to see their image accepted but it is rejected. It is hard to find time to do 'reviews', but more slowly growing collection is more warmly accepted and people are willing to spend some time watching it. Issues are the same: noise, focus, shaked images, stretched, underexposed, paintings sent to photo group, US images sent to Europe collection, the same landscape taken from positions different just for several meters  etc.
In old time SS rejections were useful for learning, users of FAA don't have this school and they have a bit different purposes. And of course this is not a review at full size, but even this allow to filter out heavy cases, which we cannot show to interested people.
We try to do our own presentations and already don't pay attention how search engine works at FAA and others.

On first upload to new agency i was ok to proposed keywording service. When i saw the results - i took all efforts to re-keyword and cancel their 'service'. Employee which did this job was absolutely not responsible for what he was doing. Just to all towers replaced original name with Big Ben, mostly all changed keywords were not correct and misleading to buyer. Original geographic names were replaced. Nice. Never more trust to oursource keywording