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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Selling Stock Direct => Topic started by: PaulieWalnuts on January 17, 2012, 06:50
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I've been using Photoshelter but they got hit hard by whatever change Google made a few months ago and my traffic dropped 90% and hasn't recovered.
I have another site that's based on Zenphoto and it has excellent Search Engine Optimization but no RF, RM, or print shopping tools built in.
Has anybody used a site or product that search engines like and index well?
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What exactly do you want the site to be able to do? Handle image sales or just to work as a portfolio?
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What exactly do you want the site to be able to do? Handle image sales or just to work as a portfolio?
Both/Either. If there's a system that has selling tools (RF, RM, prints, etc) plus great SEO that's ideal. But if not, then I'm most interested in the SEO part. Buyers gotta find you to buy.
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I've been using Photoshelter but they got hit hard by whatever change Google made a few months ago and my traffic dropped 90% and hasn't recovered.
I have another site that's based on Zenphoto and it has excellent Search Engine Optimization but no RF, RM, or print shopping tools built in.
Has anybody used a site or product that search engines like and index well?
After 55 days with photodeck so far, regarding my site:
The words without quotes: wild expression images, is in first top position with google.com
women fashion poses images, is in the first page with google.ca but second page with google.com
women fashion poses, is in second page with google.com and google.ca
women shopping images, is in third page with google.com
business people images, is in 6th page with google.com and 5th page with google.ca
My name denis pepin without quotes is top first in google.com and google.ca
Those results are without being signed into my google account and without any personalization. I think so far those results are reasonable. My rank has been slowly moving upward according to various webmaster tools. To me, as long it keeps getting better, that's all it matters.
If you wish to know more about photodeck you can read my previous posts, within this group, as I did write extensively about it or you can ask me questions.
Denis
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I've been using Photoshelter but they got hit hard by whatever change Google made a few months ago and my traffic dropped 90% and hasn't recovered.
I have another site that's based on Zenphoto and it has excellent Search Engine Optimization but no RF, RM, or print shopping tools built in.
Has anybody used a site or product that search engines like and index well?
After 55 days with photodeck so far, regarding my site:
The words without quotes: wild expression images, is in first top position with google.com
Those results are without being signed into my google account and without any personalization. I think so far those results are reasonable. My rank has been slowly moving upward according to various webmaster tools. To me, as long it keeps getting better, that's all it matters.
If you wish to know more about photodeck you can read my previous posts, within this group, as I did write extensively about it or you can ask me questions.
Denis
Have you tried those same searches on someone else's computer that doesn't have the tracking cookies from your searches and identity?
Or maybe this is your photo in the first spot? Which one is yours?
(http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/9456/wildexpressionsearch.jpg)
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Have you tried those same searches on someone else's computer that doesn't have the tracking cookies from your searches and identity?
Or maybe this is your photo in the first spot? Which one is yours?
That link is a google images link created by google themselves. It does not lead to a website, it leads to their own Google Images section. What I meant by first top position, is first top link in the web search results not the Google Images search results. This is typical of Google when you search images from the web section to overlap their web search results with a cross section of their own google images search results and by putting a link on top. This will happen with any simple word searches accompanied with the word, images. Try it and you will see. As an example, dog images, house images, computer images, woman images ect... It is a cross-section of their Google images search results not the web search results.
Denis
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Have you tried those same searches on someone else's computer that doesn't have the tracking cookies from your searches and identity?
Or maybe this is your photo in the first spot? Which one is yours?
That link is a google images link created by google themselves. It does not lead to a website, it leads to their own Google Images section. What I meant by first top position, is first top link in the web search results not the Google Images search results. This is typical of Google when you search images from the web section to overlap their web search results with a cross section of their own google images search results and by putting a link on top. This will happen with any simple word searches accompanied with the word, images. Try it and you will see. As an example, dog images, house images, computer images, woman images ect... It is a cross-section of their Google images search results not the web search results.
Denis
Oops, I read that wrong and you're right. Nice going.
(http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/8739/wildexpressionsearch2.jpg)
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Thanks Denis! I'll check out Photodeck.