Quote from: ShadySue on May 05, 2012, 10:51

Quote from: kayintveen on May 05, 2012, 10:29
To turn back on the whole ranking thing.
I just noticed something, maybe its easy explainable, maybe not.

I sold my first file 2 days ago.
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-20023350-golf-scoring-board.php
It had only 17 views and 1 sale, its was a week online.
Since this sale the views gone grom 17 to 91 in 2 days.
while in a whole week it just got that 17.

All other photos are under 20 views
except for this photo. http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-20069694-old-and-yound-hand-on-pregnant-belly.php
Am i watching to closely on these stats or is it that a sale might boost ranking?

Best match changes all the time. Sometimes a sale boosts ranking, sometimes it disadvantages it. A photo  I uploaded a couple of weeks ago and was sold within a very few days of appearing in my port is now below 200 in best match on it's main keyword, whereas a earlier one with 0 dls just sneaks in at 192. Also nowadays the geographic best match is very different, e.g. the results I get are very different, though not necessarily more relevant, than someone in the west of the US is getting.
best match changed yesterday, and the bias I was seeing towards indy files has now gone. Whereas in the past week, indy files were usually 6 out of the top ten, now there's only one indy plus in the top ten in all my usual searches, always in position 2 or 3.

best match changes all the time, there's nothing we can do about it. It's interesting, but not worth fretting about.

Haha its something like google seo. something to get nuts over.
Sometimes you do great without any specific reason, the other your rankings are tanking while you do everything right.

To turn back on the whole ranking thing.
I just noticed something, maybe its easy explainable, maybe not.

I sold my first file 2 days ago.
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-20023350-golf-scoring-board.php
It had only 17 views and 1 sale, its was a week online.
Since this sale the views gone grom 17 to 91 in 2 days.
while in a whole week it just got that 17.

All other photos are under 20 views
except for this photo. http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-20069694-old-and-yound-hand-on-pregnant-belly.php
Am i watching to closely on these stats or is it that a sale might boost ranking?

Just got my first sale since i started 22th April this year.
only 12 portfolio items... still gathering and uploading old shots and will proceed to doing more microstock stuff when i'm ready uploading

Wow.. amazing info guys. I think the conclusion is. they way real, but without the flaws. which is almost the same as plastic fantastic haha.

Just got my first sale by the way: http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-20023350-golf-scoring-board.php a shot was nothing acted. but also no real model in it. but still nice to have a first sale.

Quote from: luissantos84 on May 03, 2012, 19:48
are you serious? real people might sell very well too but there is no doubt that buyers are WAY IN to buy Yuri perfect model and location etc

if you and other tog like to shoot that, its a totally different question but in fact even the people saying they like to do their own stuff and ideas ended up doing the same as Yuri, what will they shoot? crazy concepts one after another? you can count those on your own hands! the majority of mouth full artistic guys that keep on saying that they are doing something different and what really enjoy are full of crap actually, they are shooting the exact subjects Yuri approaches, the regular stuff like sports outdoor, business woman on a train, at the cosmetic store, at the coffee.. etc

sure there are many that go with the real a lot further but thats a minority actually.. not saying I dont enjoy it, actually I do and a lot.. my point is that people keep on talking this and that about Yuri style but 90% go after the exact same models/poses/situations/locations etc.. so cut the crap (talking to all people that say that approach stock in an artistic way)

Not sure if i understand your reply, kinda aggressive, like i said, i love he's work and can understand that in a lot of cases it works great. The thing is that my clients request something different and my question was more, do you guys see this as well or is the typical "stock" look still better use and saleable..

currently i own my own internet firm, developing hundres of websites en e-commerce sites i am involved in a lot of stock photography on the buyers side, since i am also a professional sports photographer thats going more and more towards studio stuff i think stock is great to make practice shoots worth while in stead of just shooting to shoot.

the clean, models, acting stuff is something i'm annoyed to aswel, more and more web clients ask me to come up with photos of real stuff, real people and such, but why are the Yuri arcurs of this world so successful? i do respect he's work and i realy love it, but for use i think its way TO clean, to white, to plastic.

Is this what you guys see as a trend going more realistic and less stock like

Great information all,

it was not specificly the apple i was curious about, just more what drives photos to be ranked well, is it somekind of google secret ninja alghoritmic. do you guys spend time thinking about this or just create massive stock portfolios and pray for the best.

a question that is popping up now, how much images do you guys think is needed in a stock portfolio to get a decent salary out of it.
of course quality is important, but i see some stock shooter having 10.000 images in their portfolio and also so a few with just like 800 and performing also very nice.

Hi all,

First of all i want to say hi to all microstockker, Im new to this (Microstock) and here while i'm photographing for 3 years professionally already. Normally Sports, press and little studio work.

I've been busy last week shooting some simple tabletop stuff, and getting some old pics ready for upload.
Have around 9 files online on Istock now, but have a pending upload queue of around 12 files. and need to edit a new shoot with around 4 or 5 new photos.

Anyhow, just checking a lot of info, read a lot this few days but i was wondering the following.

I see a lot of people who need to wait until first sale a long time, or do not get sales what so over while they have a nice small portfolio of great images.
Is there some kind of ranking factors involved. Like i upload a photo of a green apple, of course there are already 1000 images of green apples, is there some kind of date, popularity, relevance, profile popularity of any combination of ranking factors involved?

So is this why everybody says keep uploading so you aggregate more sales and more profile popularity?

ahh i see, here by my first post, was already freaking out about not finding the start new thread button ;-)