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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Symbiostock => Topic started by: niserin on October 07, 2013, 07:02

Title: are categories necessary?
Post by: niserin on October 07, 2013, 07:02

I'm setting up my symbio site and I'm about to upload the pictures. Applying categories to every image would be big amount of work so is it possible to omit this step? Would it influence networking or seo?

Thanks!
Michal

Title: Re: are categories necessary?
Post by: grsphoto on October 07, 2013, 08:09

Categories are not necessary for Symbiostock to function.  They are for the benefit of potential clients. The time it takes to put images in Categories is small compared to the time needed to work on SEO of each image and keywording.

Title: Re: are categories necessary?
Post by: ShazamImages on October 07, 2013, 11:07

Categories are not necessary, but they will increase SEO slightly (since each category creates a new page that Google indexes).

You can also do them at a later time if you choose.

Title: Re: are categories necessary?
Post by: niserin on October 07, 2013, 11:23

Thank you ! ;)

By the way, have you had any sales already ?

Title: Re: are categories necessary?
Post by: ajt on October 07, 2013, 13:59

Quote from: niserin on October 07, 2013, 11:23

By the way, have you had any sales already ?

I had two sales so far :)

Title: Re: are categories necessary?
Post by: cascoly on October 07, 2013, 17:44

I don't pay much attention to categories for the agencies, but I do on my sym site to help browsing -- not sure if it makes a difference yet

here's a list of lumpers vs splitters:

http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=42 (http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=42)

avg sym site has 38 images per category, median of about 15

Title: Re: are categories necessary?
Post by: racoco on October 17, 2016, 03:40

I made  categories. But still no sells. Any comments on my site?
http://www.eikon-pro.com (http://www.eikon-pro.com)