I'm amazed at where some of my images show up in searches.  I love looking at the Jetpack stats to see the search terms that led someone to the site.  Over the weekend someone searched "Chocolate+Pudding+Toppings" so I tried the same search.  I had two Symbiostock images show up - one in the #1 position and another in the #5 position.  A third image from the series was in the #7 position and that was from 123RF.  No sales yet for me but I'm starting to see registrations that don't appear to be spam registrations so I'm getting very hopeful that my first sale will come soon.

Well done!

I love looking at the Jetpack stats to see the search terms that led someone to the site.

Where can you see the search terms that someone uses?

I have JetPack installed and have tried to look at every page, but don't see that sort of fine-detailed info.  I just see summary info.

My first sale small size for 5$ !

http://lifeispix.com/image/3d-letter-with-blue-lightning-texture-on-white-background-m/?r=http://lifeispix.com

 

Nice image - could be an under water M as well as a electric charged one - may it be the first of many

You can find the more recent ones if you use Wordfence

Quote from: GeoPappas on July 20, 2013, 07:36

Quote from: Ron on July 20, 2013, 07:14

Click on the views bar image in he menu bar at the top of your site

Yes, that is what I do, but that just brings me to JetPack and shows me summary info.  How would you get detailed info, like " the search terms that led someone to the site" mentioned above?

www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=stats

Thanks, but that just brings me to the main JetPack page which shows summary info.

I assume that you are talking about the section titled "Search Engine Terms" (on the bottom left).

I guess that my site is too new to show any of that info at this point.  Hopefully, I'll start seeing that info soon.

Quote from: Ron on July 20, 2013, 07:14

Click on the views bar image in he menu bar at the top of your site

Yes, that is what I do, but that just brings me to JetPack and shows me summary info.  How would you get detailed info, like " the search terms that led someone to the site" mentioned above?

Are you seeing a page that looks like a calendar?  If that's the page you get, click on the link at the top (under  the date and time) that says Return To Stats.  Below the bar graph you can see the source of incoming links, which search engines, other Symbiostock sites, or places where you've posted your site link.  Below the links you will often see specific search terms (sometimes it just returns unknown data references).  I can tell from the terms that some users are searching google for information and end up on my site but they probably are not image buyers, such as the one that searched "allergic reaction to shrimp cocktail sauce" and ended up on one of my shrimp cocktail images.  But it's fun to search the same term and see your placement.

I seem to get a lot of searched for variations on "grungy cream background, a fairly generic search phrase, and when I search that I see one of my images from my Symbiostock site side by side with the same one on DP, and another of my images in the next row, so I have two from my site in the top 20. 

First sale !!!!!!! 
I've just received the notification e-mail. Feels GOOD, I am HAPPY.

It was an image exclusive to imagoborealis:
http://www.imagoborealis.com/image/northern-lights-over-downtown-whitehorse/

Congrats! It is sweet getting 100%, huh?

AWESOME!

This is becoming like a game!

Its not a hard formula - the success you have on your site will be fairly relative to the success you had seen in the agencies, give or take a bit.

$10 a month...if you can clear that technically your profiting. But naturally you want $500 or so a month at least.

A big thing with Symbio right now is that its very artist/contributor oriented. The next phase will be focusing on customer experience and making it fun for them. Thats the general direction anyway.

I'm pleased that people are getting some sales but I can't get too excited until I see that people are making an actual profit.  You get 100% but after paying for the hosting, do you have anything left?  How many hours does it take to set up the site and maintain it?

I know its early days and we shouldn't expect too much but I'm still wondering if having my own site would be worth it?  I'd be interested to know how many images people need to sell a month at microstock prices to break even.

I know I am not there yet. My first sale was an important milestone for me, not more but nothing less. Very motivating. Now, break-even will be next. Others are reporting amounts of sales that indicate they must be already past that point. I will get there, too. I just keep uploading to my site.
Yes, it requires lots of time. But, hey, I am not participating in all the "complain & whine" threads here on MSG, so I have some time to spare for my own site 

CONGRATS! I can't wait for my first sale!

www.stocklabb.com [nofollow]

Had one sale so far, weeks ago. 2260 images.

As far as I can see my entire site has been indexed on Google. My images show up in the image search.

Maybe I need some feedback of what I'm doing wrong