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« on: February 03, 2017, 20:17 »
I really prefer the old design - everything on one page, newest images at the bottom so you could see how they were doing, one simple click and everything was there. The new design is nothing like as user friendly or useful to me.
Steve
527
« on: January 29, 2017, 13:39 »
Yes, that Deckers Creek was an example that if you have a relatively unique term, then it doesn't need to take up one of those early keywords. I agree with you on that. In terms of the description - well, I understand that Fotolia/Adobe drop the description and only use the title - which tends in my images to have fewer characters and words and can be a bit bland I suppose. I know that Stock Submitter (which I really like using now - and did review back in this post: http://www.backyardsilver.com/2016/12/stocksubmitter-elegant-replacement-stockuploader/) does allow you to switch the title and description for upload to Fotolia, so I should probably investigate that for future shots. I don't actually know how long the title can be on Fotolia to be honest. Having said that, I have no idea how they look at words in the title and prioritize them. I would certainly try to get the main theme of the image in both the title and the first keywords - I think that is a good practice to follow anyway. Since I wrote my blog post about keyword order, I have seen other files pop up in the sales reports that have never sold before, so I'm sure it is making a difference - it takes many hours to restructure keywords and so that shows how I feel about it! Steve
529
« on: January 23, 2017, 14:31 »
I didn't intend to hijack your thread. I have no regrets since we are contributing to a positive discussion and you are getting more links to your page. I don't think it was my thread - so no worries there! Good luck with the book! Steve
530
« on: January 23, 2017, 11:47 »
Hi Brasilnut
Bear in mind that you really should plan to keep it up to date (which can be quite a chore). I try to do a new edition of my book about every 12 - 18 months normally and include the latest sites, what is working, what isn't etc. I also finally decided to focus just on Amazon and took the order form off my own website so I could submit it to the Kindle lending library - still waiting to see exactly how much that pays, but it is getting page views.
I can tell you though, that it doesn't earn anything like as much as actually selling photos. I was the "best seller" in professional photography books for a while and still only sell one or two a day on average. So don't plan to retire on this!
Steve
531
« on: January 16, 2017, 20:18 »
532
« on: January 04, 2017, 17:33 »
It is the artist that owns the copyright. I've done property releases for my own photos on the wall of my room and uploaded the release separately from a release for the room/house interior itself. That generally works. You can replace a piece of art with one of your own photos if you don't have a release for it
Steve
533
« on: January 02, 2017, 19:59 »
His range of expertise reminds me of a certain president elect...
534
« on: January 02, 2017, 17:33 »
And look at your keywording. The head of the lamb has these keywords:
animal wildlife, arms, christmas, farm, flock, grazing, hands, jesus, lamb, mammal, nativity, pasture, puppy, sheep, shepherd, stable, wild, wool
Not sure there is a flock, jesus, pasture, puppy, stable or wild displayed in the shot. Wool is a bit of a stretch and christmas?
Steve
536
« on: January 02, 2017, 09:04 »
I hesitate to use the S word, but isn't that what the Symzio website does - it pulls together all the contributions of artists using the new Symbiostock plugin into one site with its own branding, and its own ability to purchase direct from that site. As far as a buyer is concerned, there is one site with a large number of images that can be purchased directly from the site. It handles photos, illustrations and videos. http://www.symzio.com/Steve
537
« on: December 25, 2016, 17:36 »
Steve
I agree - you can have a great site with great SEO, but people aren't willing to pay even 99c! By the way, I clicked on one of the financial ads on your site - those pay best!
Amazing number of visits though!
Steve
538
« on: December 24, 2016, 09:28 »
Does the new Symbio have better support for install and working problems? Yes, we don't seem to have very many. The forum is pretty quiet, which is probably a good thing. The advice on testing Google ranking is a good one, although I have found that unless your images are pretty unique, even getting into position 1 or 2 on Google Images doesn't guarantee sales. You might get some views, but the people looking on Google Images rarely want to pay and the ones that are willing to pay often have accounts on the bigger commercial agencies. So I do get views on my images, but that rarely translates into a sale. Steve
539
« on: December 23, 2016, 08:44 »
My experiences - as a piece of software and a solution for hosting and selling your images online, it has been great. No issues, easy to use (once you are online and that is easier if you actually follow the instructions), easy to add photos to and the SEO seems to be good in that my images get good placement on Google alongside the major agencies.
Sales have been few and far between though. I think Vector people do better, and some of the Symbio people seem to be doing OK, but they tend to do more social media stuff about their sites. I'm a bit lazy there.
As I think I said in my blog, I see it more as a vanity project and if the world shifts more to buying from smaller unique agencies, I will be there and ready!
Steve
540
« on: December 22, 2016, 17:45 »
New Symbiostock for me
Steve
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« on: December 18, 2016, 21:36 »
They appear to have around 3200 different prints for sale on Amazon and they can't have licensed all of those in advance - it wouldn't make sense. So they probably license the image when it sells as was suggested. Even then, to license a full EL from Shutterstock must be $100 or so, which makes their first print a definite loss. Sort of suggests they would just get a standard license at that time to make the business model work!
Funnily enough this image had an $84 single sale on Shutterstock at the beginning of December, but that seems to be too much of a coincidence
Steve
543
« on: December 18, 2016, 09:36 »
544
« on: December 05, 2016, 09:07 »
Its not every day that you see a post where every sentence includes a misunderstanding!
Perhaps you would be better researching the industry before starting to upload?
545
« on: November 30, 2016, 19:59 »
Angela
For goodness sake - forget this. Forget their email address and its IP, forget the claim, forget this thread. No-one is going to sue you - it costs a fortune and what damages would they expect to get if they even attempted it and were successful - nothing!
Get back to normal life.
Steve
546
« on: November 29, 2016, 12:01 »
Hi Mat
It was a semi colon because the system I used to sort the keywords stored them like that. As you know, I can't do that in Lightroom. The semi colon works in the Fotolia contributor page so I've done it that way.
Steve
547
« on: November 29, 2016, 09:04 »
Thanks Mat
This didn't work for me - first, there aren't enough characters in the keyword box and so it truncates the list of keywords, and then pressing Tab only moved the cursor to the next keyword box. It didn't distribute them.
Steve
548
« on: November 28, 2016, 09:22 »
Mat
I tried to prepare some video for submission in the Adobe site - I couldn't see any way of simply copying all my keywords into the form. When I tried to do that into one of the keyword boxes, they all stayed in that one box (they were separated by semi-colons). In the Fotolia indexing page, I can just copy my keywords in and they are all recognized as separate keywords.
Steve
549
« on: November 22, 2016, 19:58 »
Mat
Are you sure that the first seven are key to search success? I have quite a lot of files where I forgot to re-sort (as you know Lightroom exports keywords alphabetically) and if I search for "lincoln memorial dawn", one of my images pops up in second position. The three keywords are well down the list. I can change "dawn" to "sunrise" - even further down the list, and I still appear in 4th position. I was thinking of going through my files one by one on the site and re-organizing the keywords, but it does look, from this experiment, that the results may not be dramatic.
Steve
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