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Photo Critique / Re: Bigstock portfolio not selling?
« on: January 26, 2012, 22:35 »
Brilliant thanks Rinderart, much appreciated.

Ash

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Photo Critique / Re: Bigstock portfolio not selling?
« on: January 26, 2012, 19:49 »
Many thanks Roxxstock, I have taken onboard and understand the limitations of my current portfolio, to be honest I knew early on images I enjoy taking were not really stock material, which is probably why I have only dabbled over the three years since first joining one. My aim this year though is to alter that, and I am taking note of what I should be looking towards, so any advice is always useful.

My biggest issue is with keywording I've never been very good at knowing what to include and what not to include I usually use colours and what the item is, but I am also (now) aware that I should be doing more and even tayloring keywords to different agencies (after learning that the first few are more important in fotolia I changed a few and almost instantly made a sale there!!).

I have made a concious effort to now concentrate on one microstock site at a time, to learn "their ways" and as bigstock has my largest number of uploads figured there would be a good place to start (they also seem to do well for me for affiliate sales off my website, I assume no advertising so won't link it, so would make sense to get more picture sales there as well). So anyone who can help with tips on keywording, descriptions and title wording and importance etc would be much appreciated.

I'm not after a free lunch, I'm also trawling through the bigstock forum on here and anything else I can find on the web.

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Photo Critique / Re: Bigstock portfolio not selling?
« on: January 26, 2012, 17:28 »
Thanks for all the advice, I appreciate it (even the harsh stuff  ;) )

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Photo Critique / Bigstock portfolio not selling?
« on: January 25, 2012, 21:13 »
Hi, new to the site so hello everyone, maybe not the best topic to introduce myself with but here goes anyway, I have 95 photos on bigstock (not many I know, I posted a few to see how they would go a while back and have decided maybe I should start doing more), I have 1 sale!

1st image was posted in Feb 2009. Now while my subject matter may not be the most saleable (I understand that) is there something key word related, or description related I am getting wrong?

My portfolio: http://www.bigstockphoto.com/search/photographer/Beolens/

As you will see (well I assume you will) images that have been there since 2009 have had under 100 views, now some of these may not be popular or be in large categories (I get that) but I would really appreciate the advice on how to move them up the rankings (or more importantly get future uploads listed higher).

I've had advice on Fotolia (not that I have many images there either) previously with things like first few keywords being important, and the changes I have made there have helped, so anything similar is much appreciated.

Anyway thanks in advance, and I appreciate any help given.

All the best

Ashley

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Newbie Discussion / Re: why can't I start a new thread?
« on: January 25, 2012, 21:00 »
Well that solves that problem  ;D Thanks

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