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I’ve added you to the global search at http://symbiostock-search.com
@leo wrote:
FINALLY!!!
AUTO LOGIN!!!!!!!!….Hasn’t everyone been relentlessly asking for this from day one! Mark this day on the calendar!great news!
@leo wrote:
…..On a GOOD note Symbiostock’s main changes are officially set, so its unlikely there will be any hickups from here on. ……from here on its just minor fixes and premium upgrade implementations.
tempting the fates today, are we? class assignment: Oedipus rex
@jorodrigues wrote:
@leo wrote:
… We’re at the finish line now and from here on its just minor fixes and premium upgrade implementations.
As a reward we are sending you to an exotic location for a holiday… we are thinking… Hawaii! We hear lots of good things about it and the elves seem to be friendly too 😀
Jo
I was thinking more like xmas in fargo
closing in on 150K!
@gow27 wrote:
Hello
I added http://symbiostock.info to my network.
I would like to know how to make my web and my image showed on the site 🙂
Thanks in advance for your answer!
also, add your site name to your portfolio, and if possible, start using your domain name as your email address
@jorodrigues wrote:
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@cascoly wrote:plus they’re now competing w our sym sites
This shows how much support for Meta data there is on the search engines. Hopefully shortly the same images on SymbioStock will be showing up in search engines and I’ll be glad to remove them from the agencies.
Anyone who is still living in denial that producing stock is a competitive market needs a needle for their bubble.
Jo
definitely — one major problem is we can’t get solid information about what’s really working or even how it’s supposed to work
meta for images is a good example – eg, once a microstock has one of your images indexed, is it possible for your sym version to overtake it? or be listed in addition? sometimes it happens, other times not — what’s the difference?
removing images from agencies is one method, but it’s timeconsuming unless you remove the entire portfolio, and some agencies lock you n for years — one of the worst is 3D studio – from which I haven’t had a sale in months, but refuses to remove my portfolio
@scenicoregon wrote:
Cascoly- Send my slides to India! All the way from the U.S., that scares the heck out of me! I’ve had agencies here on the same coast manage to lose my slides before, seems like an overseas trip is asking for trouble, but I’m glad it worked out well for you. Thanks for the tip, though.
well, first off, the US postal service doesn’t get to mess things up for very long! priority mail to india is quite reliable, and I’ve done it about 10 times now
@jorodrigues wrote:
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Some of my images turn up a lot on Google search because of my keywords. If you type in “Bo Kaap” into Google image search, about a third of the images on the first two pages (didn’t look further) contain my images from stock agencies. Yes Bo Kaap is an area in Cape Town and not as famous as Paris but it shows HOW search engines make use of your key words.Jo
unfortunately those stock agency images often have the meta data stripped out afterwards, plus they’re now competing w our sym sites
I had that for awhile — kept reporting the same images which hadn’t uploaded properly. finally delted them directly from the uploads folder
were you uploading just jpg?
for anyone considering scanning slides – I’ve had excellent experiences with scancafe – you send your images to india, they scan to your specs and put samples online; you only pay for the ones you like, then your slides are returned with a DVD
costs about $.30 per slide – I’ve had about 2000 slides scanned and most are accepted by the agencies
@janeenwsearles wrote:
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Yesterday I came up with a possible business name that should be a good umbrella to put everything under…stock photography, fine art photos, public domain engravings, T-shirts, mixed media collages, etc…as long as I keep the theme to the victorian era. So, the business name plus my personal name with bio under it, everywhere I sell…I think?sounds good – as flexible as possible — maybe ‘steampunk digital daugeurreotypes’
@christine wrote:
They are all round figures – no 2.50 which a lot of blog sizes are.
Prices will also be varied because not all are offering the same sizes but it gives a good ideaIf the person who has a price at 1000 is looking – reduce it to something like 999 if you are using extended licences as they do not cover individual image prices at 1000 – puts them down to 00.01
right, that’s why I listed both the averages and the actual data – and of course, these are only the defaults stored; sites may have many price differences.
there are no $2.50 blogs listed though — all numbers are round numbers with 0 to 2 decimal places
@leo wrote:
2.8.2 is ready if you wish to update from it. I’ve been busy on everything else, I fixed the categories to the way they were – and the “pretty” (interactive categories) categories is an optional template you can use.
I also adjusted some image layouts in widgets to be properly centered.
just upgraded to 2.8.3 — categories (old method) work fine, and fast
@jsnover wrote:
Someone suggested to me that I embed my stock web site user name into every page of my symbiostock site (which I’ve done) to make it easier for prospective buyers to find me.
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if I search for digital bristles my site is the first in the list, but I’m not sure too many people will be looking that way (versus by subject or by my name).which was my point about branding — for most of us, no one will be searching for us by name
even on the agencies, it’s not clear that anyone searches for particular artists (despite agencies attempts to make us think it’s the case [encouraging us to provide links to their site, etc]
images are commodities and most buyers don’t care who created them
