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« on: August 02, 2013, 16:23 »
It measures how well you are found in search engines. So it indicates your SEO
According to Wikipedia, an organic search is a search that isn't an advertisement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_search). So it seems that maybe the % is based on whether Google thinks your links are an advertisement or not.
No. Organic search just the regular search, excluding the ads that appear around your search results. Visitors that come from ad clicks are Paid search visits. If you have a lot of organic results, then Google had indexed your site, found it good, and showing your site to searchers. Your organic search visitor percentage is the number of your total visitors that come from non-paid search visitors.
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« on: July 26, 2013, 14:56 »
I do this a bit, but I only send out low res images for keywording, then transfer the metadata in batches. I found some people on Freelancer.com and I have them use available keywording tools.
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« on: June 17, 2013, 11:53 »
This can't have anything to with Yuri leaving. SS Alexa ranking is about 500 now, and it was 1000 in 2010, so it's still up...
I'm guessing Google was overvaluing microstock results - images for sale used to flood the image results, probably because they were properly described and easy to classify, and agencies were gaming the systems a little bit. Now images that come up are not all watermarked - so agency results have been depreciated, perhaps overly so. There may be course corrections to come, but they were clearly overvalued before.
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« on: June 14, 2013, 18:10 »
Alexa is really only useful as a site to site comparison tool, if at all. If you want Alexa stats to go up, just install the toolbar and visit the site - you can make a difference.
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« on: June 01, 2013, 12:05 »
I've used Payoneer to pay Russian freelancers - they have requested it, and it's worked well so far.
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« on: May 29, 2013, 21:30 »
I reported the auction to Flippa, and they say they have now been in contact with istock about the auction and are awaiting a DMCA claim from them.
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« on: May 29, 2013, 10:57 »
Flippa should not allow this auction to proceed - it violates their terms as well.
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« on: May 22, 2013, 11:11 »
I like it, but I do feel that Stocksy is the official agency of the Unhappy Hipsters (satirical) blog. Have you seen this? I worry that when the look passes, so will the demand. Nice photos though... http://unhappyhipsters.com/
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« on: May 15, 2013, 10:59 »
I have pretty healthy sales on Shutterstock overall, but I have one file that I sell the bejeezus out of. I usually sell it on a daily basis, sometimes 2 or 3 times daily. It's this one:
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=99042737
Not that I'm complaining, I'm just wondering what might have shot this file to the top of the charts. Does anyone else have one file in their portfolio that does significantly better than all of their others?
pvg
This is probably from people making versions of the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster - copies and variants are everywhere right now.
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« on: May 14, 2013, 23:21 »
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« on: May 04, 2013, 22:27 »
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« on: April 13, 2013, 21:23 »
Wouldn't Amazon Glacier be perfect for this? Basically designed to be cheap to upload, not designed for a lot of retrieval until you need it. I think this would be different than just the S3 services, yes? http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
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« on: April 01, 2013, 14:42 »
Google bought Nik - thus the good deal. They bought the company to get Snapseed and the filters were a bonus.
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« on: March 11, 2013, 18:23 »
I have pretty sensitive eyes and I've had great luck with NEC monitors. Look into an IPS panel (may have to google the difference vs. TN panel). My eyes don't like LED backlighting (brightness has to be reduced to work on photos, which causes a flicker that gives me headaches) so I have monitors with alternate style backlight. I did end up with an NEC with LED backlighting and it was by far the best LED backlight I'd had... http://www.necdisplay.com/category/desktop-monitors
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« on: March 06, 2013, 23:05 »
A quick FWIW - requiring credit/backlink with the standard license is a total nightmare for designers and is impractical for many uses. Photocase requiring $25 to use an image uncredited (like in a collage, etc...) ensures that most of the users violate the license. I've only see free stock sites use this ploy to get some payback for the image use, and as a designer for 20 plus years, I've never worked with a photo that demanded this.
To keep this mildly on topic, I've always thought that the best way to do this would be to offer a discount if someone was going to link back to your site (in other words, help you with your SEO), which would be well worth it.
Backlinks! Yes, its as good as currency...but there are plenty of ways to do this... maybe something like this will be a future symbiostock feature:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/clip-art-illustration-search-and-insert/
Made by a guy you already know 
Good stuff - this a great idea!
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« on: March 06, 2013, 17:49 »
A quick FWIW - requiring credit/backlink with the standard license is a total nightmare for designers and is impractical for many uses. Photocase requiring $25 to use an image uncredited (like in a collage, etc...) ensures that most of the users violate the license. I've only see free stock sites use this ploy to get some payback for the image use, and as a designer for 20 plus years, I've never worked with a photo that demanded this.
To keep this mildly on topic, I've always thought that the best way to do this would be to offer a discount if someone was going to link back to your site (in other words, help you with your SEO), which would be well worth it.
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« on: February 25, 2013, 22:11 »
I've had great luck with amazingly responsive management for my VPS with Knownhost: http://www.knownhost.com/
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« on: February 22, 2013, 14:59 »
If you have earned $10,000 in lifetime earnings, we will increase your payment per Standard License download to 38 per download. This is a raise of 8 (27%) per download over the current applicable rate of 30.
Does this apply to all earnings including from referrals?
Yes.
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« on: February 19, 2013, 12:35 »
I've been a ktools customer for seven plus years. The new (v4) product has only been released for six months or so, and is a completely different product than the old v3, and thus the rate of updates is pretty high right now (though slowing and stabilizing).
The main note for me is the flexibility of the product - ktools has had input from a million different users who all want something different and the script can work for most anything not. Lots of stock photographers who sell different ways, lots of wedding photographers, lots of event photographers, those who just sell prints, those who just display, artists who sell paintings, etc, etc, etc... these all require a different set of needs and different product presentation and sales methods.
For strictly stock photographers, some of the solutions floating around here may work, but they will get picked to death by all the "little" requests ("can it just do this, oh and this, oh, and just this?) while the product matures. Most drop out of development by the time everyone is happy.
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« on: February 11, 2013, 15:02 »
Istock is clearly no longer in the business of maintaining the best quality stock photo library (ie, serving their customers) and now in the doomed business of protecting themselves from (phantom?) threats. It's a business model of opacity and paranoia and there's a long string of businesses that have ended up in this plance - they don't tend to survive. The information is too open, and eventually customers, no matter how loyal, will figure it out and move on.
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« on: February 11, 2013, 11:08 »
Yep, I get to join the club  ...
Wow, this is really remarkable and very short sighted on the part of istock from so many levels. I guess you have some work to do converting your personal website from a referral engine to a sales engine. I hope the short term impact isn't too harsh, but your long term outlook is great...
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« on: February 10, 2013, 13:44 »
Didn't Bruce make $50 million or something on the deal? Maybe he's using his own money for startup?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IStockphoto#History
On February 9, 2006 iStockphoto was acquired by Getty Images for $50 million USD.
A) Assuming he had no debt and no investors and owned the whole company, then yes he sold for $50 million and paid taxes. B) Assuming he really had debt and investors to pay off, he walked away with much less. (I assume the answer is B)
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« on: February 06, 2013, 23:25 »
So is this the overall consensus? You want that feature for sure? Personally I don't like depending on "the big guys" for details like this, Are we talking about Amazon storage? I don't like depending on the big guys either.
I'd rather rely on the most robust information infrastructure in the world and the security, redundancy and reliability that goes with it than a rinky dink hosting company with limited resources. Many hosting companies use S3 anyway and just mark up the space and data they sell you.
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« on: February 06, 2013, 16:23 »
I have a stock site that runs on WP but stores all the images on S3. I bought it this way so I'm not really sure how it works, but it can't be difficult.
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