I get occasional sales at Fotolia which I chalk up to very, very low views on my images. The average is somewhere between 0 and 20, even on images that have been there 6 months or more. The highest views is 93 on an image that has been there over a year.
When I try to search using keywords I know i have in the top 3 of my images, they don't turn up. Obviously some of them eventually turn up, in someone's search but it's starting to really make me wonder.
For instance I have a photo of Arctic Lupine on Fotolia. I'm actually surprised they accepted it, since they seem to hate that type of content.
http://www.fotolia.com/id/3665083 it has one view, which I'm sure is me. It's been there a year. A search for arctic lupine (first keyword, also in title) is "no results found".... what?
A newer photo "Yellow Hard Hat"
http://www.fotolia.com/id/7143517 has been there a few days but has 1 view and does not turn up in a search for "Yellow Hard Hat" or "hardhat" or "hard hat". Granted, I don't expect this image to be a top seller, but why on earth isn't it showing in searches?
I have others that are in similar situations and I cannot for the life of me figure it out. They get views & sales everywhere else, the Fotolia key wording mechanism seems to be so vastly different I can't figure it out. Could someone, kindly let me know what I might be doing wrong?