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How to keep Symbiostock from being crap stock?
grsphoto:
As I start to upload images I think about how many of these are "good" enough to be on my site and how many are fillers. Without a review process I might ( will likely) post images that others consider crap.
If all the people on the network post there good images as well as their "also ran" images can the network ever be successful?
A couple of ideas are bouncing in my brain... but it is starting to rain and I loose internet in the rain.... :(
Glenn
Leo Blanchette:
Good Seoul believe it or not. Good unique pointed titles and descriptions
MicrostockExp:
Leo,
Regarding SEO I installed SEO wordpress like you suggested and I use it for each picture putting title copy the description (with some words in bold in the metadata) and add a focus keyword
However when I look at the page code after I do not find the alt tag,or I read it is important to have for images, did I miss something?
The topic came up on WP but not real answers were given: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-missing-alt-tags
Cheers
L
Never mind, the alt are there did not found them at first:)
cathyslife:
I know that some of my earlier work is crap. After uploading to microstock and shooting for 7 years now, I can look back on some of that work and decide what I should leave in or out. Some of the images I will leave out, some are fixable, now that I have way more color correcting and Photoshop skills. But I just ran across one of my best sellers this morning and was thinking that it really is amazing what sells well and what I think is crap. If it's technically good and you can imagine it being used in an ad, article, blog, or somewhere else, then I say leave it in.
grsphoto:
SEO will help us with google but I don't think it will bring return buyers if the network is full of crap...though "one man's garbage is another man's treasure"
I would like to propose a shift in what this network is.
I would like to see a way to have the images curated. I would like to see the curators get a (small) percentage of the sales that they generate.
The way I see this is: xyzstockcurator, lists on their site images that they like from the entire network. When a buyer purchases through ( through not from) xyzstockcurator 5% of the sale goes to them, the other 95% goes to the contributor.
This could be a way for photo-editors to help expand and grow the network.
If we can put this into place we could even do something like 1% of sales goes to symbio stock co-op inc ltd, to be used for development and marketing.
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