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--- Quote from: Whitechild on April 25, 2009, 07:02 ---My approval ratio is poor, so I guess my images are not very high in the search.
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I didn't hear that approval ratio played a role in search.
--- Quote from: Whitechild on April 25, 2009, 07:02 ---Also, I didn't pay much attention on putting most relevant keywords in the top and Zymmetrical search engine supports 40 keywords in total. Almost all my images have 50 keywords, and my keywords are almost always in alphabetical order,
so I guess some important keywords from my images are not searchable, but that's my fault.
I could notice it earlier, and I could fix it.
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I wrote a script for that, 2 or 3 years ago. Since then, my keywords are ranked by relevancy. It didn't pay off, since most sites still alphabetize the keywords. Dreamstime and Bigstock use the repeat keywords from title/description as an indication for relevancy. I had that from inside info 3 years ago. That's probably why my sales are good at both sides. I still don't know how to handle iStock. If mr. Locke is reading, maybe he could put up a guide for dummies how to optimize keywords for iStock.
zymmetricaldotcom:
@FD: the approval ratio is a factor in ranking but it's not a high one, since we recognize that we are making high demands of people with low-volume, sporadic returns. Until we can provide more communication on what exactly the best-selling content is, it's not very fair to hammer peoples ranking based on their best-guesses with the upload.. so the dial setting for 'reject punishment' is currently present, but at quite a low setting. People with a serious uploading issues where they are not editing their content in any way at all are dealt with personally.
I can say that the biggest trend in general is no trend: the long tail search rules all. More info on this will be available to members shortly with our upcoming statistics/analytics feature.
goldenangel:
I had my second sale there today and I reached my first payout. :) It's good to see that the sales are still going on there.
Kngkyle:
I only uploaded 5 photos like a year ago and haven't checked to see if I had any sales in months. Sure enough, I got one in April. $17.50. For only having 5 images online I am pretty happy with that... so I'm going to upload some more when I get the chance.
oboy:
I just checked for sales, and .... and ... Wow! I had an EL. It sold for $100 that is $70 for me! ;D ;D ;D ;D
http://www.zymmetrical.com/art/photos/photos-architecture-religious/fileid/zyimgary00168/ref/Qimoulz+G4M/
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