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The images themselves are never downloaded by customers � they�re incorporated into ads via the Facebook interface.

they don't get the image, just a tiny thumbnail to use on fb, as part of the ad interface. frankly, this is what is worth my .33 commission! I am happy about it, and because it's not iS, I don't have a "how will they stuff this up/screw us over" fear.

Thanks for pointing that out, i can calm down now

Quote from: tickstock on August 22, 2013, 17:12

Quote from: Anita Potter on August 22, 2013, 17:10

Wonder if that's why I got a $2.48 SOD yesterday.

Doubt it, from the press release it sounds like royalties will probably be close to what you get for subs.  Probably below a dollar for most/all.

If that's the case then this is gonna suck big time unless the volume is there.

This actually could kill symbiostock or our attempts because small business use facebook and if the images are available on there why are they going to use our symbiosite when they can download them for pennies. This is giving me a serious reason to quit Shutterstock.

So what stops the image once bought for a tiny royalty, then being redistributed on facebook a million times over?

This is just legalised redistribution of our work on facebook. Think about it currently there are a lot of copyright infringements already some of which are on facebook, this is a clever way to legalise them.

If these images are being sold as singles why arnt we getting SODS?

Every one has copyright issues

Looking into start marketing and rather than dragging up an old thread from late July thought I'd start a new one.

As independents I know it's on us to do our own marketing.  Has there been anything that's worked or not worked since this was last talked about?

I was thinking about running a Craigslist add but I'm not sure if potential image buyers would even think about looking at a site like that.

The strategies we build now will help those thinking about getting started get a head start after they finish with building their site.

I don't know much about marketing and any links to good, thorough articles from trusted sites would be most helpful.

Thanks.

Anita

You need to do several things

1.Build a strong SEO
2.Build relationships with other symbiostock members to encourage them to network with you.
3.Encourage external links. I managed to make a comment on a news post about stock photos and got a link out of it.

Hi all,

Need your expert advice. I had 138 images indexed but for last one week it became 135 and now it is 133.

Any idea what should I do and why is google deindexing?

If you are changing stuff due to seo, resubmit site map

Impressions means you were listed on a search engine page. This indicates your seo efforts are working

I want to take off this 40% discount, but cant unless i do each file individually or when the premium plugin becomes available.

I think we have all submitted site maps to google, but have you submitted to bing?
This covers bing and yahoo search engine. Before I submitted my site map this morning, bing had only found about 10% of my site in 2 months.
If the engines dont know we exist then no one will find us.
Kind regards
Mark

Really?  I didn't know you could do that there.  I thought 123rf was the only site that allowed that?

So do fotolia and canstock. Just ask support. However, many companies offer free online storage e.g. dropbox.

Do individually and back up before each update

Yes i think there is some kind of centralisation planned, not sure though exactly what