Stay away from Pixmac!

What will the payout per image be?

Flemmish - I took a look at your script, but I don't think I understand it. How will it change how I currently input data to an image? - Maybe I am missing something, I will look at it again. thanks.

You have to type or paste your keywords in the second frame = Clipboard. You can do this several times. Duplicates will be removed automatically and misspelled keywords highlighted. You can delete, edit, sort. When done, you have to copy and paste it into the IPTC by a program like Irfanview. I should make a simplified version sometimes, perhaps the Help section is too complicated.

but don't forget the real meaning behind these dates!

The real meaning, for us pagan infidels, is that the spring/fertility/reborn nature rites is one of those festival events that has been hijacked by christianity, just like Xmas. 
Ever thought where the easter bunnies, rabbit, the little chicken and the eggs come from?

This holiday has been celebrated every spring all over the world in an unbroken tradition going back to many centuries before J�sus was even born, and thus cannot have had any original connection to him.

Easter was originally (and still is) a celebration of the fertility of the earth, renewed each springtime. The egg, the chick, the rabbit, the flowers, are all fertility symbols (and much older than the Christian symbol of the resurrected god). Its celebration has often been marked by sexual exuberance, as is still prominent in the pre-Lenten Carneval and Mardi Gras festivals and the phallic symbolism of the May pole and the cross.

Long before J�sus, many peoples associated this festival with the coming back to life of the god of fertility (Tammuz - see Ezek 8:14, Adonis, Osiris, Perseus, Orpheus), who had been dead in the underworld during the winter. Even the name by which Christians still celebrate the festival (Easter) is a corruption of the name of the ancient fertility goddess Ishtar or Ashtoreth (whose name also survives in the name of one of the books of the Old Testament, the only Bible book that contains no reference to God - the Book of Esther).

The Christian church, because it could not eradicate the celebration of this popular festival, reinterpreted it and assigned to it a new meaning, but was unable to erase completely its original significance. The egg and the rabbit, the phallic pole or cross (the real symbols of the festival) will continue to be loved and celebrated as long as we can marvel at the new life which the spring brings.

You probably already know this, but at Dreamstime you can boost your search position by having accurate titles and descriptions and keeping your acceptance rate high (only submitting stuff you are SURE is top quality).

The BigStockPhoto search engine uses the same principle as DT to identify vital keywords vs secondary ones. It's a good approach as long as they don't accept the fundamental solution of the contributor's keyword ranking as measure of importance. I'm doing that for 3 years now by my keyword ranking script but Fotolia keeps giving very low dowloads compared to BigStock, and I don't see any difference as to download for pictures before and after end 2006. So I guess this Fotolia 7 thing is an urban legend.

DT can't change the procedure any more now, not with 5M images. It's unfeasible that contributors will crawl backwards through their port to rerank their keywords.

As to AR on DT being important for SE rank, it's not enough to have high quality photos, but they should pass the commercial value test of the reviewer too. Sometimes that's a bit off, though much more reliable than on the Atilla sites. I also avoid editorial now on DT, since most of my editorial was rejected for unclear reasons to me, and this dragged my AR down to 72. (although my best seller over sites, also DT, is an editorial image).

Oh... I am guilty for that... System is reindexing my 400+ images including CEVAPCICI 

Oh, I thought your cevapcici images were exclusive at Zymmetrical! 

This is getting way OT

Well not really, since the definition of "making a living" depends on the place where you live, especially since this is a global business.

I'm doing 50 maximum, but since I order my keywords in order of relevance/importance by my script, they can cut if off everywhere, starting from 10. Usually after 30 or so, I have to think hard what to add. I never do more than 50, since it's the lowest common denominator on all sites. On DT, and reading some hints of the admins there, less means more. It also helps on DT to check the actual keywords that were used to find the image, and they are very plain.

I have looked at all the different flavours, Drupal is not that good with Images and Galleries, and I do not have php skills

The CMS/forum frameworks like Drupal,Joomla,Wordpress are not really meant to do image galleries that are dynamic and searchable by keywords. The best one of the galleries is imho Coppermine. If you don' have programming skills or time, consider this:

Lightboxphoto/ is a package that has all and you can install it on you own server, so no limits for space and bandwidth. It is 1000$ but imagining the price of your time it takes to program a working gallery with sales, it's a bargain.

Doing it with tables in HTML is very time consuming, it's not searchable, and of course it's not dynamic so you can't upload images, but you have to code every new image in. There is an excellent package around for generating the html painlessly and I've used it for years: Arles. Being HTML only, not needing a db like MySql, you can park it at most free hosts.

I have 2 downloads and 0.78$ commission...

Interesting, very. So their (secretly kept) reward is 0.38$ per image. They claimed they would be better than Shutterstock, referring to the 0.25$ mentioned at the SS page. Actually, my RPD at SS currently is 0.75$ due to the ODs and the ELs. I'm sorry but I'm not going to sell at 0.38$. Those days are gone.

I would love to sell off my own site.  I'm still fairly new to stock, but I'm a software developer and could certainly create and manage my own sales site.

I'm working on a Coppermine mod to sell from my gallery. What is your framework? (in another thread today, I showed some examples).

He said "disable", not "delete".

Correction: disable-all button. The images get erased 3 months later, but as soon as they are disabled, they are not for sale any more.

Surely you know of at least one person whose account has been temporarily disabled as a discipline measure.

To be honest, I don't. But that was not the issue. The issue was that RT stated that DT was committed to provide a disable-all button by the T&C and that's simply not true.

Besides microstock, we use www.clustershot.com to sell our photos,
directly linked from our site ( www.airphoto.gr/greek_aerial_photos.html )

Great info! Thanks for the links.