I've been working full on since just after Xmas to create a website using Ktools. There have been a few issues along the way which have been resolved and I'm sure there will be more. I'm still populating the site which will take some time, but here it is. I won't be doing any customisations as Photostore 4 is not that far I way I think.

http://www.digistockpix.com/index.php

Thanks luissantos84...that'll teach me to test the link  

Will do thanks. Just creating and uploading at the moment. I'll start marketing at some stage 

Very Nice!! and like THP said, let us know are you doing later on...when you advertize your site, be careful with opening other new photo forum accounts elsewhere. Most of the time, you need to introduce yourself first, make a few constructive posts, get friendly with the old members and wait a few days before dropping your link else you could get banned for spamming in an instant without warning. I know as it happened to me a few weeks ago. There are only a couple of forums that allow instant link dropping.

This group, is by far the best place to talk about your site and to let people know about it. Love the freedom of owning a site...my photos never get a rejection!!

Denis  

This group, is by far the best place to talk about your site and to let people know about it.

Though it probably has relatively few potential buyers.

"Welcome to DigiStockPix we provide you"

Period "." after Pix and capitalize W.  Keep an eye on spelling and grammar on some of the other pages.

Thanks...didn't spot that.

Nice work, it looks very clean. Congrats and hope you see some good sales.

Dig into the code, particularly the functions.php and htaccess files. Eventually you need to change those underscores to dashes. Google can't read the underscores, so that "big_cat_leopard" will be interpreted as "bigcatleopard" which you don't want to rank for obviously. The dashes tell Google that each is a separate word to be parsed and evaluated.

It's a real PITA and honestly I never got it to work 100%. KTools is outdated, and not very search engine friendly. Their admins should be on their forum teaching customers how to fix this stuff, but instead they just make it a point to tell you that they don't do custom programming. I understand they don't have the time to customize people's websites, but there are serious flaws inherent in their software which should be addressed.

Yeah, when it comes out.   

Considering they have been talking about releasing v4 since 2006 or 2007, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Quote from: djpadavona on January 15, 2012, 11:53

Yeah, when it comes out.  

Considering they have been talking about releasing v4 since 2006 or 2007, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Do you know of any better software packages for Selling Stock

Until djpadanova chime in on this one, I wish to share my experience on something different then ktools. This is not about a software but the leasing of an interface and server usage. That solution could be good until you find something better then ktools or until you find the time to write the codes yourself from scratch.

I have been with photodeck for 50 days now and although I had considered the Ktools solution thinking that I would have had more freedom in doing what I wanted to do, after what djpavona  indicated, I am no longer interested.  Those underscores issues, the fact that they don�t discuss custom coding and no new software updates since 2006 are serious issues.  With photodeck  I had my site going with all 1245 photos uploaded  inside a few hours. The interface is amazingly intuitive and easy. Google picked-it up within a couple days with every single gallery and image indexed.

Photodeck used the metadata title within your image as an image name for Google to pick it up, not the file name. Furthermore, it automatically put in those needed dashes between the words. Since I have always been careful putting in good metadata titles this a blessing.  If you have images with Shutterstock, you�ll see that your files are handled the same way as well.  Photodeck server is amongst the fastest in the industry.....my site main page loads in � second. Everything is there for you to sell images now..carts, instant download, PayPal  transaction, account and lightbox creations, ..ect..all built in and ready to go.

Photodeck do offer a� Po Account� 14 days risk-free trial which I took when I started, which you can downgrade to a basic account thereafter for $9.99 a month. However the $9.99 a month deal is not worth it as you lose your url name and the ability to automatically deliver your images as well as many other important features. To keep the Pro Account  is $29.99 a month, which so far I kept. This is for the use of their interface and server.

To me this is great for now but I still regard this solution just as a stepping stone until I find something I can truly create on my own and can still look as clean, fast and efficient as this.  Or until I see that having a microstock site is not worthwhile for me. For now I keep copies of all my site pages so that I can eventually create something similar on another server or in the unlikely event that Photodeck close their doors. As long as you keep that same registered url name, the accumulated traffic  can be transferred to another  server and your visistors would hardly know the difference.

Good link Cthoman.

No I don't know of a better solution. I started down the KTools route before I understood basic SEO, and now I have so much sweat equity invested that I don't see an immediate way out. Honestly I think if I got some help integrating a shopping cart, I could write something from scratch.

It would be interesting to integrate a photo store of sorts directly into a Wordpress style blog. Combine the text content directly with the images. It would be a totally different look from the typical stock agency, but I bet the search engines would love it.