Agency Based Discussion > Zymmetrical.com
Is Zym actually sometimes usable ?
totony:
Oh man, it was worse than being back to my first modem... (not talking V90 here...) I don't know how I even completed the registration. The site was so slow yesterday for my first visit (and registration) that I have big doubts I'll start upload there. Is it usually better ?
After registration, I was so frustrated that I couldn't find their upload page. Could anyone give me the ftp address ? Do we use the same user/pass there as in the site ?
Also, how bad is it to finalize an upload ? Clicking 20 times and going through 4 pages per photo a la IS, or is it faster ?
hali:
that ebing said, don't you appreciate uploading to Fotolia? so quick and the categories so easy to find a fitting one. why can't the others be like that?
StockXpert is cool too.
totony:
Well I guess it's another debate, but I really don't understand why stock photo sites bother with categories. I mean really, do buyers browse using categories ?? My guess is they use search terms.
Time to move on ! In 1995, we were browsing the web by category, with yahoo as a hierarchical starting point. Now in google world, all is about keywording and ranking. We spend time keywording our photos, why do we have to fiddle with categories ?
To my mind, upload should only be ftp, then model release attachment, then select all / submit.
Fotolia is not bad, but not my favorite on that subject.
Sorry for the digression, I still wanna know how to upload on Zym and if it's usable at times, so if you could gime a link or ftp instructions...
zymmetricaldotcom:
Sorry for any strangeness, we are currently in-process of moving to some new servers. The plan is to do it seamlessly without disabling uploads etc. however murphys law dictates there may be some service interruptions/slowdowns despite our best planning.
As for categories, "hierarchical starting point. Now in google world, all is about keywording and ranking." makes a key point for categorization - Page title, URL keywords, and on-page content form a large part of search engines such as Googles ranking of a given page.
http://www.zymmetrical.com/art/photos/photos-nature-form-color/fileid/zyimgnfc06064/
trumps
http://www.zymmetrical.com/art/photos/fileid/zyimgnfc06064/
I don't have much time right now to dig more into why categories matter, but I can at least say that since it's optional that you assign categories on Zymmetrical (our staff will choose if you don't), you at least don't have to spend time on it if you don't believe in it. :)
MikLav:
how long does it take for accepted photos to get indexed by the search engine?
I uploaded a few to give it a try. I can see that after some time they disappeared from "pending" and didn't appear in "rejected". However Art Manager is disabled so I can't check them; and when I tried to search using my keywords I wasn't able to find any of my photos.
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