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Agency Based Discussion => Sites that no longer exist => Veer => Topic started by: GrantP on July 06, 2011, 13:29

Title: Quick Keywording Survey
Post by: GrantP on July 06, 2011, 13:29

Take this quick survey to help us improve your keywording experience when submitting images to Veer: 

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KVK5CNY (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KVK5CNY)

Title: Re: Quick Keywording Survey
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on July 06, 2011, 14:21

I took the survey

disambiguation, tips, ... all good but with 20+ sites I am afraid we don't have the time to choose keywords for any specific site - I try to do my best at IPTC level and then just click submit, this is my ideal keywording experience: less is more

Title: Re: Quick Keywording Survey
Post by: packerguy on July 07, 2011, 07:41

Quote from: microstockphoto.co.uk on July 06, 2011, 14:21

I took the survey

disambiguation, tips, ... all good but with 20+ sites I am afraid we don't have the time to choose keywords for any specific site - I try to do my best at IPTC level and then just click submit, this is my ideal keywording experience: less is more

+1

Title: Re: Quick Keywording Survey
Post by: Clivia on July 07, 2011, 08:39

If you want a controlled vocabulary and disambiguation, you should carry the cost of it. We are busy people! Let your editors do the job, and you can relax about it.

Title: Re: Quick Keywording Survey
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on July 07, 2011, 09:42

I took the survey but I agree with the above. A CV is a reasonable idea if you can't do equally well by just interpreting from context. It's also fine to be demanding in terms of the upload process if you produce huge sales.

Veer's problem is that you're not easy to upload to and from what I read, sales are pretty modest. Bad combination from a contributor point of view.

Title: Re: Quick Keywording Survey
Post by: cthoman on July 07, 2011, 10:14

Quote from: jsnover on July 07, 2011, 09:42

Veer's problem is that you're not easy to upload to and from what I read, sales are pretty modest. Bad combination from a contributor point of view.

That's pretty much what did it for me. It was a double whammy of low sales and an upload process that required me to create a whole new higher res jpeg.

Title: Re: Quick Keywording Survey
Post by: Chelsey Schaffel on July 15, 2011, 12:07

Hi all,

Thanks to those of you who have taken the keywording survey so far, and provided additional feedback here. We're eager to improve the process for you, so your input is valuable!

For those of you who haven't had a chance to check out the survey yet, you still have a week to do so--we're going to close it on Friday, July 22nd. It's really short. And the perfect excuse to procrastinate on a Friday. ;)

Here's the link again: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KVK5CNY (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KVK5CNY)

Cheers,

Chelsey

Title: Re: Quick Keywording Survey
Post by: Perry on July 15, 2011, 12:15

Quote from: packerguy on July 07, 2011, 07:41

Quote from: microstockphoto.co.uk on July 06, 2011, 14:21

I took the survey

disambiguation, tips, ... all good but with 20+ sites I am afraid we don't have the time to choose keywords for any specific site - I try to do my best at IPTC level and then just click submit, this is my ideal keywording experience: less is more

+1

+1

Title: Re: Quick Keywording Survey
Post by: Chelsey Schaffel on July 21, 2011, 12:29

Hi folks,

One last quick reminder--we're closing the keywording survey tomorrow, so you still have a day to get your feedback in.

Thanks again to all of you who have participated so far!

Survey link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KVK5CNY (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KVK5CNY) 

Chelsey

Title: Re: Quick Keywording Survey
Post by: zager on July 21, 2011, 13:09

Yeah, 50 keywords is a de-facto standard everywhere.