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no – the ‘views’ column shows how many times that keyword was used in a search (for v2.8.x+)

what it doesn’t track are keywords that no site has, but there are over 5000 unique keywords presently

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i just report what people enter — go to user/profile and you can add focus, speciality , etc and it will automatically appear in the reports next time your symbiocard is updated

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@christine wrote:

I am linked to ten, some of whom link back to me and some who do not so the net gets spread wider?

that’s been my approach, too

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actually, this announcement makes the sym network even MORE powerful & useful. we’re already tracking this sort of data…

http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=405

shows views based on keywords across the network

there are other reports that show views for each site

meanwhile, google is still systematically crawling our sites based on keywords:

66.249.73.36 10/28/2013 11:07:55 AM OUTDOOR 122
66.249.73.36 10/28/2013 11:07:09 AM BODYGUARD 122
66.249.73.36 10/28/2013 10:49:57 AM DARKNESS 122
66.249.73.36 10/28/2013 10:32:02 AM DANCERS 122
66.249.73.36 10/28/2013 10:20:01 AM OUTDATED 122
66.249.73.36 10/28/2013 10:09:21 AM OUTDOOR 122

66.249.73.36 10/28/2013 10:08:04 AM DAMAGED 122
66.249.73.36 10/28/2013 9:44:07 AM DAISIES 122
66.249.73.36 10/28/2013 9:42:19 AM CUTTING 122
66.249.73.36 10/28/2013 9:38:06 AM OUT 122
66.249.73.36 10/28/2013 9:36:26 AM ELDERLY

I track all keywords searched from http://symbiostock-search.com, but need to write a report that filters out google & friends to see what actual users are looking for

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http://cascoly-images.com/pix/image-collections-cascoly/

describes my collections with links, rather than setting them up as a separate category
that page also directly provides 2 places for users to contact me

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I have categories 3 deep – used to have them 4 deep without a problem, but changed them when the first category change was made

http://cascoly-images.com/pix/image-categories/

I use this page to list the categories; I try to keep lowest categories to about 100 images

it won’t matter for search, batch editor, etc since those don’t directly use categories

http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=42 shows how varied the use of categories is

Mean # images / category = 41
Median = 16.1

and of course, there’s the basic question of whether buyers use categories much when searching; I use them mostly for my own organizing and editing

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@ansharimages wrote:

Found that to fix issue with incorrect symbistock_site name in symbiocard.cvs you need to change 1 line in file network_manager.php:

From:
$network_info[ ‘symbiostock_site’ ] = site_url();

To:
$network_info[ ‘symbiostock_site’ ] = home_url();

Now it works fine.

One more issue left with networking.
When you search some keyword on some site which has AnsharImages.com in network – you sea search results, but Author info is missing in header. You can see it on my site (I have my site in my network for testing purposes):
http://ansharimages.com/?s=makarska&post_type=image

Any ideas how to fix it?

first, be aware that those 2 urls are also used in different places, so other parts of sym may work differently, now or later

you may not be seeing the header because you are really only using 1 site — try it with another site networked and see if it still lacks the header

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@ansharimages wrote:

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Setting up Worpress to subdirectory /store was my initial mistake. I thought it is more or less standard setup for Worpress when you installing in subfolder but use it in website root path. If I knew about subsequent problems, I’d choose installing to the root initially. I do want to have symbiostock in the root, not in the subdirectory.

The question – is it possible to fix somehow?

looks like it’s ok right now, your images are in the global search, and I can get to your site from there. if something’s goes wrong later, you might want to remember that the 3 image urls are divided berween the root and subdir

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@ezeepics wrote:

I have only one site related on the list: foodvectors. But I added imagerion, cathyslifestockphotos.com and http://photominingstock.com/food too. I see my site added by them, but don’t see them under my site on the list. Can you add these too please Cascoly?

right, it looks like foodvectors is the only site networked to you – for the others, you’ve linked to them, but they haven’t linked back

http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=52 each site & shows who they link to

imagerion’s site seems to have a problem at the moment

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@marthamarks wrote:

Well, as long as we’re tossing out ideas, let me suggest my 400-year-old “city different”: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Great food. Great scenery. Great weather. Great historical and cultural attractions. Great almost everything! I’d be glad to make the local arrangements if Santa Fe turned out to be the top choice.

depending on how long our Turkey trip ends up being in the spring, for fall we’re looking at Indonesia, India or Santa Fe

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@jorodrigues wrote:

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If you have Standard/Extended/RM etc. there needs to be a way of targeting those types of files only. I had thought that perhaps enabling hidden categories might be a way to go. If there was a way to do so we could set up “back of house” categories or some sort of filter to apply to the files.

Not sure how you would implement it but this is just by way of explanation. Some people have just tried to dismiss my idea as unimportant but I want to see someone say that when they have 5000 files in different licences and want to put up the prices!

Is there a way to associate the image page with the licence? That way if you change the actual licence details it changes the image pages across the board or when they load. It’s an intelligent way to work with a database.

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Jo

I agree it’s a problem that needs to be addressed at some point. the batch editor in the pro version lets you do this now, but you need to know which images need updating, as you can’t (currently select by price)

don’t get me started tho on the wp db – it violates just about every principle of db design, but it’s what we have and leo’s done an incredible job to make the wp system do what he needs

ideally prices would not be stored with the images. instead the image would have a ‘pricelist’ field that points to a record in a pricing table. eg pricelistA would be standard prices, pricelistB would be for older, discounted images, or editorial, etc

then, by changing pricelistA, all images using that would be updated immediately without having to actually change any of the images themselves. thus instead of 1 set of default prices, you could have as many sets as you liked. those who have only one set wouldn’t have to do anything. if I remember correctly, smugmug uses a system something like this

but it wouldn’t be a simple change..

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@leo wrote:

There are two points of focus people seem to want the most:

1. People want the batch editor to only assign chosen/selected attributes to a set of images per editing run.
2. People want an easier licensing system.

Without a great deal of detail, I’ll let you know this is my next focus within a short time.

The LICENSE system is going to use a slightly more wordpress compatible system, where a LICENSE is going to be a custom post type, with its own options. Other than edit ability and simplicity, there should not be many changes.

And simply stated, the batch editor will have selection boxes to confirm which values are being assigned to the set of images in question.

So in a nutshell – we’re just cleaning up and simplifying.

re batch edits — right now, if you try to delete a category or keyword from a selected group of images, it deletes that category or keyword ENTIRELY, making the selection of images irrelevant — this is a bigger problem

also for batch edit – can you add the ability to add specific text to a group of images?
eg, need to be able to add “this image is part of collection XXX” to the group of images rather than having to edit each image individually

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@ajt wrote:

It is working now, but as I suspected, it has problems with networking, because symbiocard still contains address with /store. After adding your site to network, its address is changed to ansharimages.com/store and header above network results is missing.

I remember, that some people had wp install in subdirectories and Leo helped them to resolve problems, but I don’t know how 🙂

no problem installing in subdir (my site runs from /pix )- nothing special needs to be done. but you need to use the subdir in the site name as we see here, since redirect isn’t always consistent

eg:

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ok, I’ve added you to the global search at http://symbiostock-search.com
You can find other sites by specialty at
http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=72 also other reports about all network sites

you don’t need to move anything — once I used http://ansharimages.com/store the collection worked fine. we just need to know that the install is below the root since otherwise we’d be looking for

http://ansharimages.com/symbiocard.xml

rather than
http://ansharimages.com/store/symbiocard.xml

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you can have to 10 network partners

not positive, but either method should result in an email being sent

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