Author Topic: Analysis of portfolios who rank on the first page of top-500 customer queries (Read 5680 times)

ribtoks · « **on:** July 25, 2021, 23:57 »

Hi all

I was collecting new data for Stock Photo Ideas after the feedback on top-100 customer queries by traffic. I took top-500 customer queries by traffic instead of top-100 this time and analyzed portfolios that were on the first pages of Shutterstock search for these queries. These are only queries for photo and video.

The results are published on Petapixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/07/23/how-to-rank-on-the-first-page-of-top-queries-on-stock-photo-sites/

Believe it or not, I found out that about 30% of portfolios that rank at least once on the first page have 1000 or less photos! Even though there were portfolios with as much as more than millions photos too.

Also I managed to capture an interesting SEO-"hack" that allowed some portfolios to capture as much as 1000 backlinks to their page on Shutterstock!

I hope you find it useful. Do you think I missed any interesting statistic?

P.S. Link to the previous research on forum: https://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/analysis-of-top-100-customers-queries-on-shutterstock-(opportunities)

fotoroad · « **Reply #1 on:** July 26, 2021, 10:41 »

Nice work, I now in person for many years one artist you mention and he always told me to many pic but not to many sales.

panicAttack · « **Reply #2 on:** July 26, 2021, 14:51 »

I was talking about double keyword contributor fizkes few years ago on this forum and i was almost laughed at. Some here told that they can't find any of his photos in top pages. 🙈🤣 Now all can see what i was talking about 😏 good morning to them, they know who they are.

ribtoks · « **Reply #3 on:** July 27, 2021, 01:02 »

Quote from: panicAttack on July 26, 2021, 14:51

I was talking about double keyword contributor fizkes few years ago on this forum and i was almost laughed at. Some here told that they can't find any of his photos in top pages. 🙈🤣 Now all can see what i was talking about 😏 good morning to them, they know who they are.

Glad now you sleep better, panicAttack

ribtoks · « **Reply #4 on:** July 27, 2021, 01:04 »

Quote from: fotoroad on July 26, 2021, 10:41

Nice work, I now in person for many years one artist you mention and he always told me to many pic but not to many sales.

Who is this artist I mentioned? Just curious.

Uncle Pete · « **Reply #5 on:** August 03, 2021, 11:37 »

Quote from: ribtoks on July 27, 2021, 01:04

Quote from: fotoroad on July 26, 2021, 10:41
Nice work, I now in person for many years one artist you mention and he always told me to many pic but not to many sales.

Who is this artist I mentioned? Just curious.

I don't know if it's the same but OlegRi has been discussed lately for his unusual high rank for his images. The SEO and backlinks makes for a good logical reason why. Maybe there are other things that he does as well.

gnirtS · « **Reply #6 on:** August 03, 2021, 18:38 »

Interesting (albeit depressing!) research. Well done.

Roscoe · « **Reply #7 on:** August 04, 2021, 01:15 »

Quote from: Uncle Pete on August 03, 2021, 11:37

I don't know if it's the same but OlegRi has been discussed lately for his unusual high rank for his images. The SEO and backlinks makes for a good logical reason why. Maybe there are other things that he does as well.

I checked it for two of his images (keyword woman, first and third place in ranking in my search): not a single backlink.