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« on: January 23, 2011, 17:36 »
A bit related - can sales take up to a year to be reported, on rare occasions?
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« on: January 21, 2011, 18:06 »
Earlier today, I was signed into DT, and then clicked "log out" - The screen had a place for me to Log In, but it also said "Hi XXXXX" with my facebook name given.
So it seems like there's a grey zone you can be in - when you log out but are still viewing the DT site with same browser...
Perhaps this helps explain why, though I'm logged out, I see different credit costs for same level+ tiffs, depending on whether they're mine or someone else's (as I mentioned in an earlier post).
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« on: January 12, 2011, 19:39 »
RacePhoto - I LOVE your postcard exchange idea!
smiles - Ann
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« on: January 04, 2011, 20:42 »
LOL - madelaide, I finally decided to approach this from opposite angle... I logged out and checked out how many credits it would cost me as a logged out person to buy TIFFs of some of your images and my images. your level 1 = 18 credits (my level 1 = 11 credits) your level 2 = 20 credits (my level 2 = 15 credits) your level 3 = 21 credits (my level 3 = 20 credits) your level 4 = 24 credits (my level 4 = 23 credits) your level 5 = 27 credits (my level 5 = 26 credits) So the credit #s you saw for you are same as the credit #s I see for myself, and less than what I see for you. Now all is clear  My level 5 is my only level 5 and it is exclusive.
My other exclusive is a level 2 and is 15 credits just like other level 2s. It is very large (4525x5374) while some of the non-exclusives are much smaller (2410x3213 and 2896x2172, for instance). So it doesn't seem to be related with exclusivity or size.
Puzzling indeed that there are such different prices. 
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« on: January 04, 2011, 15:56 »
interesting, madelaide - further checking into this, I've noticed same level TIFFs for 15 credits, 18 credits, 20 credits - so more than Level figures into price. must be one or more of these: RM/RF - Exclusive Image or Not - TIFF File Size [Edited to add: another variable: Exclusive Contributor or not?] I checked some of mine:
level 1 - 11 credits
level 2 - 15 credits
level 3 - 20 credits
level 4 - 23 credits
level 5 - 26 credits
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« on: January 04, 2011, 15:15 »
Hmm, I just logged out & checked its TIFF price = 20 credits. It's okay with me if it was bought by same client that got the tiff a few days ago, & deal was worked out, but otherwise, this is odd. should be a level 2 and a level 3.. don't know 
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« on: January 04, 2011, 13:00 »
For sale of same file at same level:
late December 2010 - TIFF - 20 credits (2010 credits)
early January 2011 - TIFF - 15 credits (2011 credits)
If client buys bulk credit package, is smaller number of credits needed for Tiffs?
Is there some other variable related to TIFF prices I'm not taking into account?
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« on: January 02, 2011, 12:09 »
Oh dear, I saw this 2 days late.
Hope to catch a 2011 campaign like #tweetwater @microstockgroup in time.
smiles - Ann
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« on: December 27, 2010, 18:30 »
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That's what you call devotion....lol
I hate the cold. My poor body just can't take it any more. I've been living in the south for the last 25 years after living up north for many years and the south beats the north any time...other than during the civil war... 
Donna, how you feel about the cold is how I feel about the heat. Anything on the right side of frostbite is fine with me, but forget about hot beaches.... funny line about S VS N 
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« on: December 27, 2010, 14:57 »
Here in NYC suburbs of Long Island, people can finally get out to shovel, but I think the LIRR trains are still shut down, so lots of city's workforce, employers and employees alike, couldn't have made it in. I bundled up around 3AM to get some blizzard shots, and promptly fell off of hidden curb flat onto stomach on the street. Camera was fine, so it wouldn't have been bad if I had been wearing, instead of holding, my gloves.  After a few minutes, I went inside for a bit when I couldn't feel my hand. Then took a bunch of videos starting with me inside, then going out to blizzard. Told myself I was doing it to "tell a story" - but I might have chosen that approach so half of each shoot would be inside. Alas, shots more personally documentary than anything, since the blizzard thoroughly whipped me around and snowed on lenses despite shielding them with cloth whenever possible. smiles - Ann
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« on: December 22, 2010, 16:49 »
You put things nicely in perspective, RacePhoto, and, yes, it is both helpful and fun to share trials and tribulations of keyword searches. Reading some of madelaide and ShadySue's search results experiences reminds me of fun project my writing students would do. They'd illustrate a sentence with a misplaced modifier, and then illustrate the sentence with the error fixed, to show how incorrect wording unintentionally alters meaning. NO: Hundreds of thousands of miles away, Pat looked through his telescope at the lunar eclipse. YES: Looking through his telescope, Pat saw the lunar eclipse hundreds of thousands of miles away. (still have the great drawings of Pat far away in space looking through telescope, and then Pat safely here on earth...) search: "lunar eclipse" telescoperesults: http://tinyurl.com/25fyhfg Entertaining isn't it? With a bunch of us testing and trying, it teaches us how to write better keywords for the Alamy searches.
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Something about the way they are counting views and zooms has also changed. My view went through the floor a few months ago. Either that or people just stopped searching for everything I shoot, suddenly? My CTR right now is .74
With all of that, Alamy rank means less and less and I don't really think we should worry so much about errant views from poor searches. We all get them.
It's been fun!
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« on: December 21, 2010, 16:26 »
Earlier today, I took the word Santa out of title, just referring to hat as Red and White Christmas Hat, but change didn't kick in yet. I'm going to put it back to original wording.
Doesn't it take 24 hours for it to be updated in the search engine after the change? I think I read that somewhere.
I think you're right. Since I saw RacePhoto's post within hours of the change, I was able to refer to images' live online description and essential keywords when re-editing the info (?I thought your username was dongding, like a bell in reverse.)
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« on: December 21, 2010, 15:52 »
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Ann, I don't think you can have a word in your keywords and not have it show in searches according to a specific "not" at the same time. If you ask for Santa Hat, you are going to get Santa and Hat results, unless you trust the buyer/searcher to do something as simple as search for - girl wearing santa hat - http://tinyurl.com/26jvbdl hey look, 805 images of girls wearing santa hats. It's easy. (No quotes were harmed in making this search)
Thanks for posting that link to search results for girl wearing santa hat, RacePhoto - since my photos showed up on first page, I guess their keywords are okay. Earlier today, I took the word Santa out of title, just referring to hat as Red and White Christmas Hat, but change didn't kick in yet. I'm going to put it back to original wording.
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« on: December 20, 2010, 17:10 »
Most recently, I can't figure how to word description for image of young girl wearing Santa hat so it can be found, but not show up in searches for Santa. (in keywords, Santa only appears in phrase "Santa hat")
RacePhoto: your Psychic Search Engine - is that what happens when NumbErs and PSYCH get together?
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« on: December 16, 2010, 17:01 »
@RacePhoto - Re: "Close except it's not Red and Car for the one out of quotes, it's Red OR Car"
Not quite that simple, based on results for below search.
Total results for just red search is significantly more than for red car search.
But if red car = red OR car in searchable fields, then results should be at least 1,312,632.
<<<Unless I'm totally misunderstanding you, and red OR car is not meant to be same as red AND/OR car. But no one's going to type exactly red car in search box and want results to AVOID all images with both red AND car in searchable fields, so that's not it.>>>
red: All of Alamy(1,312,632) Creative(187,468)
car: All of Alamy(459,632) Creative(36,705)
red car: All of Alamy(45,382) Creative(2,750) (no quotation marks used in the search)
with good cheer - Ann
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« on: December 15, 2010, 20:30 »
@madelaide {{{hugs}}} I so appreciate your kind perseverance in clarifying this, since keywording can significantly help make or break an image, esp on Alamy: So it seems I don't really understand why there's such a different # of results when buyer searches red car VS "red car"  I thought it was because the specific phrase "RED CAR" appears with quotation marks around it in a KEYWORD Box for around 3-thousand images, and the words RED and CAR appear somewhere as Keywords and/or in Captions in 45-thousand images.
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« on: December 15, 2010, 16:55 »
I think Race Photo is right that quotation marks and brackets are ignored in Alamy searches. And even if it was used, terms in brackets are searched individually as well.
Putting "Quotation marks" around two or more Keywords does affect search results. (Now, if the point was that quotations marks are seldom used by searchers, that's different.) Here's another example: red car = All of Alamy (45,326) and you get same results for [red car] Creative(2,580) "red car" = All of Alamy (3,454) Creative(259)
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« on: December 15, 2010, 16:53 »
(double post - hit 'quote' instead of 'modify')
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« on: December 14, 2010, 16:26 »
Does putting quotes around words in a Title - say "Cradle of Aviation" - get them treated as a phrase in searches?
Oh, oh, I wasn't clear at all. Should have written: Does putting quotes around words in the CAPTION - say writing "Cradle of Aviation" in quotes for image of that air & space museum - get them treated just as a phrase in searches? (If not, those photos are bound to end up in searches for baby cradles, unless I leave name of museum out of caption of photo of the museum.)
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« on: December 14, 2010, 11:49 »
Does putting quotes around words in a Title - say "Cradle of Aviation" - get them treated as a phrase in searches?
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« on: December 14, 2010, 07:14 »
I like the way Alamy uses the three groups of keywords for relevance, but I,do wish that photographer names was a separate field in the search form, like other sites do, and also that they would consider keywords in quotation marks. for example, I have images with "varig airlines" and "south american" and it appears in a search for American Airlines.
I'm under impression that Title words factor into search results, madelaide, so I'm guessing you got that American Airlines result because the words Airlines and American are in your Title, if they each appear only as part of a phrase in quotes in keywords.
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« on: December 12, 2010, 14:39 »
ShadySue - re your "I'm quite cokka with Alamy today, as I got a sale yesterday for $500/$300 to me, so I'm just holding my breath until it clears."
Congratulations on big sale, ShadySue sooo exciting!
It's really nerve-wracking, as I keep hearing about sales that don't go through on Alamy, though I've been lucky so far with my smaller value sales.
Well, on the Alamy forum users might be more likely to mention a good sale that falls through than a successful one, unless it's first sale or price is amazing. If odds weren't strongly in favor of decent sales clearing I think we'd be hearing a LOT more about problems.
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« on: December 11, 2010, 15:53 »
ShadySue - re your "I'm quite cokka with Alamy today, as I got a sale yesterday for $500/$300 to me, so I'm just holding my breath until it clears." Congratulations on big sale, ShadySue sooo exciting!
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« on: December 07, 2010, 11:51 »
aack, hit 'quote' instead of 'modify' - double post
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« on: December 07, 2010, 11:50 »
@Rubyroo
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There's a current forum discussion about the 'keyword phrase' issue:
http://www.alamy.com/forums/default.aspx?g=posts&t=9446
Good luck!
LOL, that Keyword Phrase discussion is classic, great fun. Conflicting opinions, all sure theirs is right (none more stubborn as yours truly)
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