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I currently have the following configuration:
Symbiostock 2.6.5
Child theme 0.1.0
Pro plugin
Sitemap plugin
Syxtra pluginIs there anything specific I need to know to upgrade or just do it the same as always? I recall seeing there were some Syxtra conflicts. Should I deactivate that before upgrading?
Leo – the link takes me to GitHub but I don’t know what I’m supposed to download. Dragonfly automatically gives me the download link. Can you please point me in the right direction to download 2.8.2?
Thanks!
@cidepix wrote:
@jorodrigues wrote:
@cidepix wrote:
I use info.. but opted to use outlook as an email service provider..
also, while I agree with everything you guys said, I still think symbiostock needs to allow registration without email confirmation..
No I meant info@YourSite.com hehe 😀 These are common email addresses that spammers use right away.
As for the email system I have no opinion as I am new to all of this 🙂
Jo
Yes I use info@mysite.com 😀 but host it on outlook (hotmail)
Is the “info… address possibly causing it to get blocked as spam? If it is popular with spammers there may be a spam catcher on the receiving end that keeps it from getting through. Add in the multiple links in the letter and that could be the culprit. My home provider was blocking and it took a bit of work to get them to make adjustments so their spam catcher would let the info through.
@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.
Ahh – I was visualizing your suggestion differently, as just one single row, not one row per site with the heading. I like your suggestion.
I notice the way it works now if an individual has a lot of images matching the search word the scrolling repeats the same group of about 18 or 24 images then you have to go to the next page for that artist so it’s a manual action to see more anyway.
Leo – can we have a sticky at the top of the Development forum where you post links to the most current version of the various versions and plug ins?
It’s getting confusing as I’ll read one thread touting the benefits of 2.7.4 then suddenly see 2.7.7 elsewhere and then 2.7.8 quickly followed by 2.7.9. I’d love to have one place to go to see what is the latest and greatest if it’s not showing up in the auto-upgrade and also to be able to roll back a version or two as a short term fix if I run into a conflict.
I’m not a code expert but I think you need some sort of code to align top, align center or align bottom and perhaps something to space them out too. Is that what you’re trying to do when you say to Line Out the logos?
I wish I could give you the actual code but perhaps if you describe more specifically which layout you’re looking for then one of the code pros can jump in and give you exactly what is needed.
I’ll be watching this answer because I suspect I’ll want it too when I update my page to the new version.
@djpadavona wrote:
One word of note. If you have applied rankings to your images, they will be erased by running the above procedure. In my case it wasn’t a big deal as I only had maybe 10 to 20 images with “1st” rankings. Just be aware of this, in case you have done a lot of image ranking.
Ahhh – big light bulb here for me. I had wondered about that “warning” for updating all images because I thought it was just warning that the change you made would be applied to all images. I see now that it’s resetting ALL images to the defaults that you have it that entire section.
That may be where the batch editor comes in handy in that you can update just the comments but I lost track of which had been changed and which hadn’t been changed.
Steve, I’m pretty much right there with you. I have limited time to get back up an running so I’m concerned about breaking something I don’t have time to fix right now. I also have limited coding knowledge. I’ve managed to follow direction from others on a few basic things but I’m not at a level where I can figure things out on my own.
I had a dormant domain and tried to add a subdomain to that but I ran into a problem and rather than sort it out I decided to use my dormant domain as a test site.
I loaded in 2.7.7 and the Symbiostock pro upgrade and site-map option. Over the next week or two I’ll be playing with it to get it in working order. I’m planning to make notes so I have a step-by-step for myself when I transition things to my active site. I’ll see if I can create a document for others to follow that will get the basics in place when they upgrade so it goes smoothly.
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.
@cathyslife stockphotos wrote:
@christine wrote:
@cathyslife stockphotos wrote:
. oops you already found what I was going to say. I don’t know the answer to your question. Where’s Christine? 🙂
Me neither not for doing them in bulk anyway – I don’t know everything by a long long way 😀
I think at one time we could do it through All images and bulk editing but not now. I leave comments turned on for my image pages in case anyone wants to comment. No one does though (I use anti-capture as well).That’s what I was thinking so that’s where I went first and it wasn’t there.
Good tip about the Quick Edit. I keep forgetting about that. I need to make that my first stop in my workflow. 🙂
It used to be there in Quick Edit but I think when Leo set up the premium plug in it disappeared. I’ve been changing mine via the Batch Edit option but the problem there is it just shows what the default is, not what is currently set for a particular image so it’s hard to tell if I’ve turned it off on all images without going to each image.
I’m going to check out Ron’s suggestion on the Author page. That might be the solution. I’m turning mine off for the same reason Dan is – spam problems. I have Askimet catching them as spam but it’s still annoying and I’m not getting any real comments so I figure it’s just best to eliminate the option.
@cathyslife stockphotos wrote:
Thank you so much for all of that analysis, Karen! That is just the type of info I have been looking for. I am trying to learn more about all of this SEO stuff.
I will go see if I can find stats on my webmaster tools like you posted so I can study what you are saying. I would also like to mention that prior to a month or so ago, I was connected to 10 network slots, one being sy.info. In those months (about 3 or 3-1/2) I had 1 sale. I don’t really know if I can conclude that removing all the network links has hurt my sales, since I started with only 1. As far as direct links and bot crawls, if those don’t convert into sales, it’s irrelevant too. But I can see that increasing all of those things would certainly up the chances for more visibility and then maybe more sales.
On the left side you’ll see Links To Your Site. It will show about 5 links. Click on MORE underneath you’ll get a larger list with download buttons at the top. I used the Download Latest Links button. Beyond that it was manual sorting and tabulating results. You’ll see Bot or other similar terms in some of the Bot links. I sorted by date, then looked at specific months sorting by site name.
I think your last sentence captures the concept. The Bot crawls and the links created by a network member displaying your image in search results don’t necessarily result in someone coming direct to your page, but Bot crawls index pages and improve your rankings, and by getting your image displayed you have a greater chance of having someone jump to your page. You also show more relevance to Google since there are more links to your page.
I did a bit of investigation and found the following by digging deeper into the stats on Google Webmaster Tools. I used the Download Latest Links button to get more info.
The list of domains linking to your site includes links going all the way back to April when many of us started our sites. Those highly ranked sites may not be linking in with the same frequency they did in the past. By downloading the Latest info I was able to do some analysis by date.
The stats downloaded seem to lag behind by about 3 weeks as Sept. 23 is the latest date for any incoming link.
Disclaimer – by listing specific sites it’s just for illustration, not any criticism or commentary regarding who links to me or doesn’t link to me as everyone needs to make decisions on what is right for them. That said, here is some of what I discovered:
Cathy – your site shows 1 Bot and 16 links to my site in September, none after the 13th of the month and 5 of those links are on my focus keyword list. By contrast, in August there were 16 bot crawls and 125 direct links. July showed over 200 incoming links. Some of the change could be due to seasonal changes in keyword searches but in looking at this I suspect the big drop in incoming links is related to the removal of my site from your network.
I’m seeing a similar change of incoming links from Picturebreeze. I think I had been part of Andre’s network in the past but see that my site is not currently listed as part of his network. In August I had 839 incoming links from Picturebreeze. In September I had 59 incoming links from his site.
Ron – As far as I can tell you and I do not have any direct network links in any way yet I have 5 incoming links from your site. They are all words on my focus keyword list so the focus keyword concept does seem to have a benefit with linking beyond one’s direct network.
Symbiostock.info is showing 347 incoming links in September. The relationship seems to be between my site and Sy.info and I’m not finding a relationship that includes a third party (ie: link to Cathy’s site via Symbiostock.info). There seem to be a couple of variations on the url listed. Those that show .info/?s=[search word] do not show a search word in the search box in the page returned so I suspect those are the results called up by someone having sy.info as a network partner. Those urls that have /index2.php?search=[search word] will show that word in the search box on the page so I suspect those incoming links are based on direct searches at Sy.info.
I also see a few sites in my outgoing network that don’t seem to be contributing more than a couple of incoming links into my site. That’s not to say it has to be equal on incoming and outgoing connections but I suspect if they are not getting searches on their site that link back to mine we probably don’t have symbiotic keywords and therefore I am not contributing much in the way of links to their site either.
On the flip side, I see a few sites where there is not currently a direct link but I see a lot of incoming traffic, much of it from the focus keywords. A few of those sites might be a better option to fill my network sites since we seem to be drawing similar types of searches. Of course that gets back to what is more beneficial to our sites, limit the number of images shown to just a few to reduce competition or the more the merrier in that it results in satisfied buyers who will come back and if my images are strong they will end up selling.
Conclusions:
> Having strong sites list you in their network increases your incoming links (“strong” meaning those with lots of traffic, symbiotic keywords) and that drops if you’re removed from their network.
> Having only Symbiostock.info in your network will show on other sites as incoming links from Sy.info, not from the site it’s displayed on. This is good in that as Sy.info rises in ranking it shows incoming links to our sites from a site with high ranking which I believe is good for SEO but it’s lacking in other benefits. If you had a direct link you would be contributing two incoming links to another site for SEO purposes.
> On the negative side of the Sy.info search results, many of them are showing that the link is to page 17, 40, 158 and in one case page 825 so while it’s contributing a link, buyers will probably never see the image.
> Having direct links seems to greatly increase the bot crawl traffic. Symbiostock.info does not seem to be contributing any Bot crawl traffic.
> Focus keywords work to bring in traffic from the distant network beyond your direct links. There may be benefits to analyzing which of your words are successful in bringing links and replacing weak words. Adjusting them for seasonal or newsworthy events may return good results too. in example, during world cup soccer finals Ron may benefit from listing those countries that are in the finals to gain more returns on his flag face images specific to that country, then changing them to more general terms later on.
Maybe one of the SEO experts can weigh in on this:
How important is the Bot crawl traffic?
How important is it to have a higher variety of incoming links from other site searches?If those two factors are important for SEO and site ranking then I see a strong argument for including others in one’s network slots and not just relying on Symbiostock.info for shared search.
@cathyslife stockphotos wrote:
If you link to symbiostock.info you will be linked to everyone. They will show your images in searches on their site and vice versa. And most everyone is linked to symbiostock.info already. I have verified the fact that i am linked with everyone with webmaster tools after wondering what the point was for filling out 10 slots if you can connect in one shot. Of course you can fill them out, maybe they provide additional links? I would like to hear the theory on that.
My understanding is that just linking to symbiostock.info creates a direct link to that site alone, providing an SEO boost to symbiostock.info but not the sites for the images it’s displaying. By filling the 9 additional fields you also give a boost to those 9 sites, just as other sites are giving a boost to you if they’ve listed your site.
I could be wrong but I think just displaying the images via the Symbiostock.info search doesn’t give SEO weight to any of the sites other than Symbiostock.info. You’re offering a gateway but not really creating a link by calling up the other sites.
Maybe someone with more SEO knowledge could chime in to say if this is a correct assumption or not.
I’m not completely sure on this but the way I understand that feature is that it’s there for special licenses, otherwise leave it at the default blank [ – ].
It would be used if you are selling exclusive rights for a period of time. You could deactivate the image completely or leave it visible but remove the options to buy the image.
@cathyslife stockphotos wrote:
@pixelsonthego wrote:
In wordpress you can allow/disallow comments in the quick edit menù.
In dashboard go to Pages–>All pages–> You get a page with all your pages. Hover the mouse on the page title and at the bottom appear some option like edit – quick edit. Click on quick edit the row with the page show you some option and there is a check box where you can allow or not comment in this page. If you need to do this for more than a page is the fastest way.Great tip, I will try that next time. Thanks!
I think that disappeared with the bulk edit option in the pro version. It used to be there for images but now I found to take it off the existing image pages I had to use bulk edit
