Not a smart move coming on here!

I thought the same.  The height of stupidity.  Stealing something and then coming and parading it around in front of possibly one of the people you stole off !!  Doesn't make any sense at all.

I've  only had 22 dls there this year!!! If we had to attatch model releases I wouldn't bother uploading there but with ftp it only takes a couple of minutes of my time so I upload and hope .

BigStock is a solid middle tier for me and if my images weren't bridged over I would still upload there.

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I've wondered about this often.

If I were the agencies, trying to give buyers the most appealing search results, one of the factors I'd use would be a weighting per photographer based on sales success.

Now, you couldn't use gross sales because that would vary with portfolio size. You'd have to use a ratio, and the most obvious one would be total sales divided by portfolio size.

This is total speculation, of course, but if it's true then you might improve your search ranking if you reduced the size of your portfolio.

I think that DT use that as one of the elements in their search.

dt??? LOL, you believe that?? my ratio of images to sales there is 2:1 (dl:port)
i still have been earning for past 2 years more dls with ss in one week that i get with dt in 2 years

The fact that you earn more at SS is irrelevant.

WRONG ! the fact that i earn anything more at any place or any business IS RELEVANT.
that is why we are in business!!!

What I meant was that how you sell at SS compared with DT is nothing to do with  how DT order their search.  I do really well in the searches at DT with a huge part of my port coming up at the top of the first search pages but still don't sell a lot there compared to Fot or SS.

I've wondered about this often.

If I were the agencies, trying to give buyers the most appealing search results, one of the factors I'd use would be a weighting per photographer based on sales success.

Now, you couldn't use gross sales because that would vary with portfolio size. You'd have to use a ratio, and the most obvious one would be total sales divided by portfolio size.

This is total speculation, of course, but if it's true then you might improve your search ranking if you reduced the size of your portfolio.

I think that DT use that as one of the elements in their search.

I voted for Ulysess.  Great photo. Good luck

Mine was gone too so I have added it back. !! Thanks for the warning elnacho

Mine has been going up daily.  I check every morning.

Totally normal month here.

I had a 250$ one refunded last month a few hours after they bought it.  Later that  day it sold for 90$. Nothing refunded  this month though

I am heading to do slightly better than March. So no change here.

Due to falling sales across the board, I haven't uploaded to any micro sites in the past year.  But if I were uploading, I would still upload to the sites you mention.  I dont consider them low earners as they each get me a payout or better per month.  To me the real wastes of time are Stockfresh, GL Images, Crestock, Pond 5 (for photos ), and any others that rank near or below them on the poll.

Exactly the same experience as you.  Monthly pay outs from the ones you mentioned and very little from the others.
I still upload to some of the others though.  GL because it's so easy as no need to link MRs, Pond 5 as I can set my own prices but if they reject a perfectly good batch again then I will stop uploading, and Stockfresh because I think Peter is a good guy.