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Someone tricked the Shutterstock algorithm?
pancaketom:
I would gladly have my mediocre (read, good enough) shots land on the first page of searches. This would be very lucrative, especially for subjects where the buyers just want a good enough image. stuff like background clouds, wood textures, isolated simple objects and food.
Personally I had a fireworks image that was a good image (but there are thousands just as good) on the first page of search at SS for about 3 or 4 years with daily sales. Then the search got changed and now it gets a few sales a year. Placement isn't everything, but it is very very important and probably more so where the buyer doesn't really care about the exact image, they just want one that fits the simple criteria.
Justanotherphotographer:
--- Quote from: pancaketom on July 18, 2021, 16:03 ---...Placement isn't everything, but it is very very important...
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Absolutely. Above a certain (pretty low) quality level it is (almost) everything.
Put it this way, Ted Bundy got more marriage proposals than anyone on this forum. Get enough eyeballs on a product and no matter how sh*tty you’re going to find takers.
Roscoe:
--- Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on July 19, 2021, 01:22 ---Get enough eyeballs on a product and no matter how sh*tty you’re going to find takers.
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Ha! You just revealed Shutterstock's business plan ;D
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