I'll say it again... 123RF is top tier.   They'll officially be one of the "Big 4" in four to six months.

123RF is my consistent second place earner and by a large margin. I've seen big increases over the past couple months.

Had two sales (3 files) today within 3 minutes of each other. I have the Paypal app on my phone with instant notifications, it's nice to see the cash roll in! 

It's been a great month, I have surpassed by best month ever at Dreamstime with my SY revenue.

Mine just updated and appears to be correct.

Something for everyone to consider. Most people are going for the static front page look, emphasizing their photo/vector categories.

Notice that Dave has his blog updates right on the front page. I think this is a great idea. We know that search engines visit pages more often when they have frequent updates to text. It is "assumed" that this carries an SEO advantage, though it is impossible to quantify.

From what I can gather, the majority of my traffic is coming straight from Google to the image pages. I have had over 5,000 unique page views in the last 30 days. Of those, under 400 were my home page.

Buyers are already looking for a specific image when they search Google, they are not searching for another place to search for images.

The majority of the searches that hit my site are people using the words "vector" and "free". That's why I have an very high bounce rate of almost 90%. Most people are looking for free. They hit one of my image pages and find that it is not "free", and they bounce.

The networking features of Symbiostock are going to be a HUGE advantage over the others.

Contacted by a customer who is trying to browse a category of mine that has 118 images. He is only able to view two images per page in the category.

Customer provided screen shot (uploaded below).

I can't duplicate the issue on my end.

My current car isn't worth that much.

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Quote from: Jonathan Ross on May 13, 2013, 15:02

Hi All,

 Just wanted to concur with everyone here my ShutterStock sales that have been solid ( within $100 a month for years, averaging about $1400-$1500 a month )  have taken a dramatic drop for the first time ever this month, sad to see the best of Micro following the pack. ShutterStock was the one micro agency that gave me hope in this model of stock, now ...they can talk about adjustments but this one was a doozie.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Thanks Jonathan!  you just underlined it all.

Yes, he underlined that sales for many people are down.  That settles it.

You are trying to hard; to not be invested in some way stockmarketer.

Aren't we all "invested in some way"?

3 sales so far this week, which makes 5 total for me.

If are thinking about starting a site, do it. It works.

This is just the beginning.

Leo has developed a fantastic product.

The admin account you'd give me is leo[at]symbiostock.com.

In the meantime, if ever stuff like this happens just resize the image and send it to the customer letting them know its a new system.

The customer has already been taken care of, thanks Leo.

You're still set up as an admin on my site. I'll send you a PM with the details.

"UPDATE: It appears Adobe will still offer perpetual licenses (also see video below where the Creative Cloud is touted "as an option," not the de facto way of procuring Adobe software). They're just down playing it in order to push their Creative Cloud offerings."

http://ryanholmes.me/cutcolorpost/2013/4/7/adobe-and-creative-cloud

Check the date on that article.

I had seen someone post at one time that an image on the best selling list is probably selling 15+ times a day. I have no idea how accurate that is.

but i still don't understand why the google images search will affect them that much?

To my understand, if those people will steal the image and they won't buy it at all.

Like they steal the image for their own usage, but if a designer works for a company the designer won't care about spending time to look for a free image and save the money for the company.

I also see a big drop in GL, which i don't understand it.

Google changed up the image search so that the same image wouldn't appear more than once in the search results. You used to see the same image several times in the results, now it is likely to appear only once, usually from the site where it was indexed first or the site that Google deems more important.

You used to see the same image from SS, DT, 123, GL, and others in the results, now it may only appear from one of those agencies. GL typically isn't one of them.

Google image search is a blessing and a curse. While it's a great way for ignorant people to steal images, it's also a great way for people to find the image they want to buy. Google image search is very important to us microstockers.