I would not appreciate anything that can alter the keywords on my images without my say-so.

I dont want my keywords changed without my permission, but i am always open to suggestions.

I also would not want to have the keywords on my images altered without my approval (or have my images show up at the back of the search as a result).  I don't mind if someone wants to notify me of a keyword that they think could be incorrect, but I should have the final say as to what keywords are on my images.

As I stated in another thread, there are plenty of keywords that might seem inappropriate because complex searches don't work at this time (on the base version).  So an artist that wants to let the buyer know that there is "copy space" in the image, currently has to break the phrase up into two words: "copy" and "space".  So when a buyer now wants to search on "space" (to find images related to astronomy), they end up with all sorts of other images.

In addition, I was doing searches on the major players the other day and they ALL had images that were keyworded incorrectly.  I was surprised by how many images showed up on the first few pages that seemed to be totally off in respect to their keywords.  If the major players can't fix the keywording issue (with the billions of dollars that they are making), then there is little chance that small mom-and-pop outfits will be able to come up with a solution.

Having a voting system will only end up with sites forming groups and attacking others so that their images will get to the front of the search and push others to the back.  I've seen it done before time and again.

Do I submit Yoast's main sitemap XML URL or is it recommended to submit each of Yoast's individual sitemap URLs to Bing?

I submit them all.

Where does one find those directories??? I have no clue where to find them

They will be on your host.  Usually they are in your web root directory.  My web root (on GoDaddy) is called html, but your might be different.  You would need to use software, such as PuTTY, to connect to the server.  The best thing to do would be to zip up the files (so the download will be much smaller) and then download them to another server.  I download them to my local computer using FileZilla.

Where does one put them so they'll be backed up??? I have no clue about that either.

You can put them anywhere you like.  I put them in a directory (which I created) called file_backups.

I'm usually working with Firefox. Now I just checked my site on other Browser. Everything is fine on Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. But not on Internet Explorer. The fonts in footer and sidebar are way to big and the whole design gets crashed ... strange enough only on the homepage. On the single image pages, FAQ, About, etc. everything looks like it should. Does anyone know how to fix that?

On IE 9 it looks fine.  Which version are you using?

I will try one more thing and open a paypal business account...

What type of PayPal account did you have?

Or maybe there are somewhere else?

Is it possible that there is a symbiostock_rf directory under your public_html directory?

Are images that should be stored in the symbiostock_rf folder used to create downloadable images for the buyers?

Yes.

One more detail. The Perm column (Permission?) is set to "700" for symbiostock_rf and "644" for wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content and some other folders.

The permissions on my symbiostock_rf directory is also 700.

Ok, I purchased the plugin but there is no way to see which versions I bought. The file name really needs to indicate what I bought, I have no clue now.

If you know how to get to it, the version number is in styles.css.

So you think it's better to SEO the generated thumbnails and watermarked images.

That means if you have 1000 images you have to SEO every image 3 times. 1x on the image page and thumbnails and watermarked images in Media Library.
That's 3000 times Focus keyword, description, etc.

I just have 100 images uploaded and that took me a couple of weeks due to lack of time.

OK, maybe we are using the term "SEO" differently.  I mean that you should submit a sitemap to the search engines for all of your image pages, thumbnails, and watermarked images.

That's 3000 times Focus keyword, description, etc.

Actually its only 1000.  The thumbnail and watermarked image don't have keywords, descriptions, etc.

For example:

Here is a page for one of my images:
http://shazamimages.com/image/abstract-colorful-segmented-fractal-background-rgb/

Here is the watermarked image:
http://shazamimages.com/wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content/1706-abstract-colorful-segmented-fractal-background-rgb-version.jpg

Here is the thumbnail image:
http://shazamimages.com/wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content/1706-minipic.jpg

The page has the keywords, categories, description, etc.  This page will show up in Google Web Search.

But the images are just images.  They don't have any associated text.  These images will show up in Google Image Search.

Mine does.  It has the thumbnail and the watermarked image along with all the other images that I use on the site.

OK, I now understand what you are saying.

When you upload an image via the Media Library, I believe that it puts the image in wp-content/uploads/2013/08/30 <or whatever date you uploaded the image>.  I originally thought that you were referring to this directory, since that is where the Media Library places your images.

When you upload an image via Symbiostock, it puts the generated thumbnails and watermarked images in the wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content directory (which is slightly different).

If you click on "Media Library" in WP Admin, you will see everything under wp-content/uploads, which will include both of those directories.

The full-size images that you upload are located in symbiostock_rf_content.  That is a protected directory that is not accessible by the outside world (which is good since it protects your original from getting stolen).

IMO, you want to SEO the generated thumbnails and watermarked images in the wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content directory.  You don't want to SEO the original images in the symbiostock_rf_content directory, since nobody can get to them anyhow.

Besides the SEO on the image pages do you also SEO the individual images in the WP "Media Library" folder?

No, I don't really have anything in there (except for the images used in my slideshow), but I do SEO the individual watermarked images.

You might want to include a few example links.

Somehow the images have disappeared from the database but some of the data is still showing.  I am going to have to delete around 1,100 of missing images and start all over again as they are not available for sale (Mark just tried for me)

I just wish I knew how/why they had disappeared from the file

Bye for now - I have a lot of deleting of incomplete files and reuploading/seo-ing to do     

I would verify that before I went down that road.  An hour or so of verification is much better than days of starting from scratch.  In addition, you might want to check to see if your web host keeps previous backups and see how far they go.