It's good to remember that DT penalizes you for having lots of keywords. All things being equal, images with more keywords appear lower in search results at DT. When submitting there, I usually delete a few of my less important keywords. I think it helps.

I didn't know that about fewer keywords leading to a higher search result. I need to take that into account in future uploads.

Steve

Hi Cathy

Hard to say. I did some research from the last set of sales (1 person bought 3 images of Washington DC). I can see incoming visitors from both Google and Symbiostock.info, I can see a search from the home page for Washington DC, but I can't piece the flow together. I am sure it is probably possible to do that, but it would take some time. I don't see any incoming search terms from Google that have anything to do with Washington.

At the end of the day, I take the incoming links from wherever they come. I try to boost my web presence via my own blog, via Fine Art America, via this site, via Symbiostock, and people find me in one way or another. A couple of my purchases have been from people seeing an image on another site somewhere and emailing me. I see all that as positive and if this buyer happened to find Symbiostock.info and came that way, it is fine, if they came in another way, that is fine. I'm happy to have as broad a reach as I can.

Steve

I think they will reject them all. You are aware of issues with model and property releases I assume - most of them need either one or the other, and they are not particularly newsworthy to fit into the old definition of Editorial. I'm not sure SS would take these as the trial images.

Steve

How did this site pan out for you Steve?

Hi Ron

I had totally forgotten about this site - in fact, if you had asked me if I uploaded to them, I would have said no!

The site is still there, my images are still present, my sales (just checked now) are still zero.

I've only got 20 images there, so perhaps there is not much chance of a sale, but for me, it is a dead duck.

Steve

Thanks - hope it gives you some good information! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me.

Steve

Always remember that it is the buyer and users responsibility to decide if an image can be used in the way they plan to use it. To take your example, lets assume the Trevi Fountain is trademarked (it is too old to be copyright). That image could be used in a travel article about Rome, but it could not be used to support an advert about a water feature installer. So, how can you, as the photographer know at the time you sell the image?

You can either just say - the use of all images is the responsibility of the buyer, or you could play safe and say Editorial use only. If someone decided to sue you (and they could for any reason), your defense would be better with the editorial warning, but you would still have the costs of defending yourself.

Having said all this, people sue for money, and if you appear to be a penniless stock photographer, why would they bother?

steve

Thanks - I was typing at the same time! Sorry for that

Steve

Well, you can do it in Deep Meta in about 3 clicks.

I use Deepmeta, but hadn't spotted that. I was looking at it just now - how do I add a single new keyword to multiple files? I think that once it is in there, I can select them all and click on the "Send File data to iStock" option. But what is the process for adding a new keyword to many files?

Steve

The author of this first volume of e-magazines about Photographing Food has now moved on to a new volume - focusing more on composition and styling. I've extended my original post on the topic on my website: http://www.backyardsilver.com/2013/11/stock-photo-topics-photographing-food-magazine-volume-2/ and am now looking forward to getting into Volume 2.

It was quite rightly mentioned earlier in this thread that you could buy a full book for the price of the complete set of magazines (which is true) - I just happen to like these things coming along at intervals so you have time to read, absorb and practice some of the techniques.

Enjoy!

Steve

PS - the direct link to his site is: https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=235116&c=ib&aff=257311" target="ejejcsingle" (and, yes, I have an affiliate code there - search for Photographing Food if you prefer to avoid that.)

Unless it is an image of the particular glass item that a scientific buyer would want (and would probably need a property release) I was assuming this was more a picture of the glass in a lab environment and this was a blow up of part of it. In a general lab environment, why would you go to the trouble of getting a property release for the glass?

That's all I'm thinking, although I'm no expert on the needs of a scientific buyer. You are right - you could submit as editorial, which could be the main use of this sort of image?

Steve

Well, is not that hard to be a newbie in microstock as long as I'm surrounded by good and kind people

Are you also on a different microstock forum then?

Steve

Are you looking for the folder name - it would be your site - eg www.backyardstockphotos.com/wp-admin/

You should then be asked for your user name and password

Steve

Just going back to the Livestock App (which is great!), how do you make it go back more than a month to see all the PP downloads in the past month. As far as I can see, mine stops at the download on 17 September and won't go back earlier?

Steve