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what happens to the deeper levels of categories? is the original hierarchy maintained, but just displayed differently?
I have a number of 3 levels, and a few 4 levels: eg
-travel
— us
— Utah
— Bryce
— zioni’d already been thinking of moving the US portion out of travel anyway
I update the symbiocards every few days — starting with 2.5, new fields were placed in the middle of the symbiocard, so not all fields are picked up properly, so these few sites are listed as ‘outdated’ under version
@dianajo wrote:
I know what you meant Christine. I uploaded from my archives doing 2006 first, 2007 next, etc. However, I didn’t process as I went and processed everything at once…and it seems like things may have gotten jumbled at that point.
the upload doesn’t always go in order, and neither does processing — probably because both are multitasking, so some images may finish before others. I try to load/process similar categories, so now ipload & process in smaller batches
@scooty wrote:
Thanks for the welcome and the advice
The Pro option might be a good way to go
Any suggestions about the search engine jumpstart? From the little general research I have done so far on website design it seems unnecessary
Thanks again
I use justhost and their backup system is good
don’t buy any seo from hosts — yoast and leo’s sitemap plugin are the way to go — add them from within your site; also set up google webmaster tools to submit your sitemap
indexing fluctuates as google re-crawls your site, so it’s normal to see small drops or increases.
if you have a low % of images indexed, most likely you’re competing with your own images that are already indexed by microstock agencies
I take any currency for my ebay sales, all processed thru paypal – always figured i’d rather pay the 1% conversion fee for international buyers than not have them buy at all.
@cathyslife stockphotos wrote:
SEOs used to be able to use links and other factors to trick Google into thinking that their search website was more authoritative and helpful than it actually was. Hummingbird once again makes the end user the absolute focus of search results. We can’t trick Google anymore! Building links to less-than-amazing content will fail. Google will notice high bounce rates, the lack of natural social sharing, and a variety of other quality signals no matter how many links you build — probably even faster with Hummingbird.
But i wonder, since we are image based, would us all linking to each other be considered less than amazing content, or very relevant. Guess we will find out.
right – that’s why most SEO recommendations may not be directly relevant and why submitting image sitemaps is so important.
for people who are looking for images, getting those ranked is probably better than high placement for the keywords alone
a corollary, if google traffic decrease, would be to keep our network referrals going, since those go to people who are more likely to be image buyers
another cosmetic error — in batch editor, when you create new collection — it says “Category created”
pretty sure you have to have analytics running to get reports thru webmaster tools — make sure you’re verified
sometimes the verification stops and you should see a warning on web tools about that; I’ve had it go out on my smugmug acct several times now
thanks — the bird shot was almost random – I was up for early light on the grand canyon , and heading back when I saw them in an old snag
ok, the immediate problem was that there was a type in the image name for the image selected for the collection — it looks like when there is no image set, it defaults to the list of the images in the collection and no price list
however, there’s no easy way to edit a collection’s main image — when you use the ‘collection’ under images it doesn’t show any details and you have to find the image itself in order to make changes
adding to the collection does work though
@dianajo wrote:
Thanks for posting about this. I have been thinking about setting up ‘identity’ packages featuring a business card layout, letterhead, postcard design, etc and offering those for sale as zip files. It hadn’t even dawned on me that only offering a zip file could be problematic.
I figure I may as well try to maximize my potential revenue through the site…right? I’d rather get paid $5 direct and let them send it to their local print shop to have their cards and such printed at no mark-up, then get paid $2 to do all the work and have it ready for them to buy direct at a POD site. Of course, one is potentially residual and the other isn’t. Must think on that.
the zip file option had been working — i’d used it for collections before that feature was available
@easybuyphotos.com wrote:
Can I upgrade from 2.6.5 directly to 2.7.9 without having to install all the other 2.7.*
yes
@cathyslife stockphotos wrote:
@klsbear wrote:
One block of images may be a good visual presentation but is that going to be confusing to buyers?
If all images are together I think the expectation is that if you select one and add to cart, go back, select another and add to cart then they are all going to be in the same cart when in reality you may have jumped to two other sites.
Yes. I suggested this in the other thread…
What about showing one row of non-scrolling images with a heading of the site and a see more here link after the row of images?
The link could link to their site, as well as the images that show.
agree – we need to be able to show there are more results, but we don’t want to swamp the hosting site – , so a ‘click for more’ seems a reasonable compromise
I have the option for collapsing ‘similars’ on my global searches – i’ll be expanding that to automatically take place when there are more than X results (probably 500 but maybe less). clicking on the similar now takes you to that site to see the others
@christine wrote:
What would happen if you took one frame from the video and made it availabe as a blog size only, would havinganother, nonzipped file help?
i’d thought about that, but hadn’t had time to test — i’m afraid that then buying the ‘blog’ size wouldn’t deliver the real file the zip — Leo???
if we can get this nit fixed, then we have a workaround for people to be able to sell video clips directly
