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Sales stopped! Usually 40-50 sales per day, this days only few subs! This month 78% down in comparison with last Jan. Btw Dec 2016 was my BME on SS. My port is 45% bigger than last year. Around 4k images online.
Quote from: Stockmaan on January 19, 2017, 07:17Sales stopped! Usually 40-50 sales per day, this days only few subs! This month 78% down in comparison with last Jan. Btw Dec 2016 was my BME on SS. My port is 45% bigger than last year. Around 4k images online.This is my experience, too, in sheer downloads. I have kept up by SOD and video. On Sunday I made $100. I almost always make $4-$6 on a Sunday. These one-offs are saving my rear in order to at least maintain my monthly income. That $100 BTW was three sales (2 video and one SOD).
Hi there, First post on here, I noticed in Nov/16 that my sales were down (only been doing 3 years) so I started looking at why. When I used to load to SS the words loaded alphabetically as they still do via lightburner, however the new algorithm clearly works on keyword order and title word order. As been off work with a torn knee I started reordering keywords and titles using the order of the most popular search words in 'insights' and then 'image gallery stats' this tells you what % of sales are to each words. Put in same order in title sentence if appropriate and keyword order a MUST (making pin sharp keywords better for customers searches) instead of them bringing up hundreds of irrelevant pictures. Due to new algorithm you will have to do this with old pictures (as keywords will be in alphabetical order) even your popular ones or they simply will NOT sell. This is why some peoples new pictures are coming up on page 1 in 'popular' searches despite not having sold a single time. Maybe they are accounting for people clicking into them but not buying but I doubt it. Its very time consuming so I started with my most popular picturesHope this helps with re-couping lost sales? mine were up in Dec by 43% so def worth looking at if you have time free and a nerd brain like mine!cheers LJ
i'm packing my bags and i'm going home.
Quote from: Cheekylorns on January 20, 2017, 10:39Hi there, First post on here, I noticed in Nov/16 that my sales were down (only been doing 3 years) so I started looking at why. When I used to load to SS the words loaded alphabetically as they still do via lightburner, however the new algorithm clearly works on keyword order and title word order. As been off work with a torn knee I started reordering keywords and titles using the order of the most popular search words in 'insights' and then 'image gallery stats' this tells you what % of sales are to each words. Put in same order in title sentence if appropriate and keyword order a MUST (making pin sharp keywords better for customers searches) instead of them bringing up hundreds of irrelevant pictures. Due to new algorithm you will have to do this with old pictures (as keywords will be in alphabetical order) even your popular ones or they simply will NOT sell. This is why some peoples new pictures are coming up on page 1 in 'popular' searches despite not having sold a single time. Maybe they are accounting for people clicking into them but not buying but I doubt it. Its very time consuming so I started with my most popular picturesHope this helps with re-couping lost sales? mine were up in Dec by 43% so def worth looking at if you have time free and a nerd brain like mine!cheers LJDoesn't SS reorder your keywords and the order we put them means nothing? Maybe others it matters. IS no matter, they put words in their order. Adobe you pick the first 7, don't know what after that. That's the big three that matter. I'm not going to keep changing words and order for every agencies idea of what they should be.
this is what happened.... if you can think of any other reasons I'd love to hear as optimising my sales and SEO on sites is an area of interest
no chance in hell that ss uses keyword order, rubbish
I've tried to reorder keywords in SS but doesn't work for me at the moment:Catalog Manager -> edit keywords' order of a photo -> Submit & Save = nothing changes, same old order (even waiting 48h).Am I doing something wrong?
Hello all,I just discovered that many many of my images in my portfolio are not displayed when i click on it on buyer SS site !I understand why my sales have dropped ! I've written to SS to check what is happening. If only 1 on 5 images of my files are displayed when buyer click on it (I've got 2000 images), then I'll make 5x less income than usuallyThis is extremely worrying. Are you experiencing the sameCould you check if that 's happening with your port ?Thx
Quote from: pixmicro on January 20, 2017, 13:42Hello all,I just discovered that many many of my images in my portfolio are not displayed when i click on it on buyer SS site !I understand why my sales have dropped ! I've written to SS to check what is happening. If only 1 on 5 images of my files are displayed when buyer click on it (I've got 2000 images), then I'll make 5x less income than usuallyThis is extremely worrying. Are you experiencing the sameCould you check if that 's happening with your port ?ThxGlad you mentioned this cause its the same here! I buy and contribute. The same eight or ten pictures are selling every day but when logging in as a buyer I can only see a small fraction of my pictures. Have also written to SS about a possible bug? they replied no bug and that everything was fine. its not. Whats going on?
Quote from: derek on January 23, 2017, 11:10Quote from: pixmicro on January 20, 2017, 13:42Hello all,I just discovered that many many of my images in my portfolio are not displayed when i click on it on buyer SS site !I understand why my sales have dropped ! I've written to SS to check what is happening. If only 1 on 5 images of my files are displayed when buyer click on it (I've got 2000 images), then I'll make 5x less income than usuallyThis is extremely worrying. Are you experiencing the sameCould you check if that 's happening with your port ?ThxGlad you mentioned this cause its the same here! I buy and contribute. The same eight or ten pictures are selling every day but when logging in as a buyer I can only see a small fraction of my pictures. Have also written to SS about a possible bug? they replied no bug and that everything was fine. its not. Whats going on?I believe they now call this Alternative Facts, got to give it to Shutterstock they got into the new regime mode pretty quick.