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Enjoy your 15%

Enjoy your 25c from SS too.

As a Newbie I much prefer my 25c from SS vs the 0.00c I get from iStock

If this is going into a Symbiostock directory - info on the directory site I would like to see.
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Price range xsmall $1 - Xlarge $30 - whatever is set by users
Network size - totalled on the 5 slots
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Good list  but.... image price can be set per image not just across entire site..
Network size?  please explain what you mean here? 

we don't want to get affiliate trolls in the network that just set up sites to funnel sales to real sites and take a commission!

Steve

Why not?   I am a photographer, not a web designer, not a marketer. If someone ( just about anyone ) can do a better job at marketing my images than great.

Glenn

I am trying to think of ways to reward people who have me on their network, and send me sales.

I am wondering if a plug-in such as this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/affiliates/ can be intergrated into my site.... and what people think of the idea.

Would 5% of the sale be a good amount?  Too high?  Too low?

Any thoughts?

Glenn

Steve..good to know about the "search-Images" delay.  I really can't tell about the time difference.... my internet is slow when ever it rains... and it rains a lot

Also the embedded links tip is good.

Glenn

Where do I find the Template?

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Ok I found the template setting, they are on the page>edit

There are 4 home settings

HOME page CTAs
HOME page simple
Home page
Home page - Sidebar

I was using the last one.

Now I have switched to HOME page CTAs  and it seems to be working.

I am wondering about having networks based on content.

As an example my site might fit into the "nature and travel" network, but not the "lifestyle and business" network.

This could be a way for the niche sites to network and market themselves.

Glenn

BTW I have some out going networks, but I don't have any incoming ( I think)  does someone want to test my site to make sure it works?  http://stockimages.glennspecht.com/wp/

So, why not being a little patient while working hard on your site?

I have been accused of being many things.... patient has never been one of them.... 

I have been working hard on my site, trying things, breaking things, learning.  The time I have to invest in stock is limited and I have been neglecting other things to work on this.

Your single word searches are OK, but the multi word keywords don't work. I was annoyed at that to start with, but realised that it's actually far more efficient to have single keywords with an implied 'AND' in the search. Until Leo gets the advanced search ready, you might do better with a category cloud than a keyword cloud. That works very well as is.

Thanks... those are work arounds I can work on.... though it does mean I have to Categorize the images instead of just keyword....

I have been trying to figure out how the search works, and what I have to do to improve it.

Using my site http://stockimages.glennspecht.com/wp/ I hover over the keyword tag "Snow Monkeys" and it says there are 50 tags.

I click on the tag and I get no images as result, and links to 2 of the sites on my network.

I put the search term "snow monkeys" in the search and I get 5 of the sites on my network, but none of my own images.

If I put "monkey" in the search term I get 56 images ( which is right 50 snow monkeys + others) and 3 of my networks, but no images from them.

If I drill down in my Category I find my 26 "snow monkey" images...

How do we set up Categories/ Keyword/ Tags? to get the best results for our site visitors.

Glenn

Thanks  Now I know how it is supposed to work I have made it work...

The problem was when I click activate two save changes appeared... one which did nothing.
Now that I know what is supposed to be I kept clicking until it worked.

Leo

How will you pay for the bandwidth and server space? 

Long term this might be cool, but short term, to get things going, a simple db might be the best answer.

Mid term, a cool feature would be a way for our sites to query this data base and download changes to our own site... that way we always have the latest list.

I just did a search for "snow monkey stock image"  and was excited that 3 of the top 4 images were mine.... until I looked closer and saw that they are hosted on 123, and Shutter Stock....

I think the biggest reason for non-hyphenation is that I think cpanel doesn't allow it?