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@cascoly wrote:
I think it’s more in HOW the search is being done than WHO is being searched
I think that’s right.
I hate to keep the networking disabled for now but the poor search performance doesn’t leave me any choice. Hopefully Leo can offer an opinion or technical advice on the issue.JoAnn, I just did a test run with networking enabled and only your site added.
A search for “flowers” took 99s on my site, compared to 8s with networking disabled.
Thanks for the stats, Steve.
I really think any search display taking more than 10s can potentially harm your site and your business. I certainly wouldn’t enjoy shopping on a site that’s not responsive. Not even to mention that search engines might downgrade your site ranking when they don’t get results in a timely manner.
The question is, what to do? There must be something wrong, don’t y’all think?
I’m running in circles.
1. I’ve reactivated SYS networking adding only http://www.karensarragaphotography.com as a networking partner. Simply because her site was mentioned to be fast. Search results came up after about 90s. But I have to say that Karen’s site was NOT on my partner list before so I don’t think her site was causing the initial issues. I’ve removed the site shortly after.
2. I’ve added symbiostock.info as the only site to my partner list. Search results were delivered pretty constantly after about 18s. Still too slow for a good customer shopping experience IMO.
3. I went back to deactivating the Symbiostock networking completely and again I’m seeing search results after 5 to 6s.
Of course I’d like to reactivate the networking features of Symbiostock but I need my site to perform reasonably well.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Short update.
Deactivating Bad Behavior did not improve the search performance so I reactivated it after the test.But deactivating the Symbiostock network did the trick. The site is now delivering search results after 5 to 6 seconds. Not great but not too bad either. Please feel free to try for yourself and report your experience here.
So my uneducated guess would be that one or more of my network partners were causing the poor performance. Any other ideas?Next steps would be to reactivate the network partners one at a time and to test the performance in between.
@lespalenik wrote:
Jo Ann,
I don’t think that the rocks are hot topics – definitely not on continuing basis.
First month, I thought, it’s a fluke, but as I mentioned, this has been happening for several months now. Very strange!
I’ll report here if I find any links or patterns.Can’t you see where the visitors are coming from (referral sites)?
@joannsnover wrote:
It was slow for me too – but then I tried my own site and
and saw some pretty sluggish responses from all of them. The global search was near instant
http://www.symbiostock.info/index2.php?search_item=dog&search_order=1
Karren’s site was quick
http://www.karensarragaphotography.com/?s=dog&post_type=image
Yeah, I experienced the same. pretty slow on your site and crackerclips.com (just not as slow as on my site) and reasonably fast at Karen’s site. Maybe it has something to do with a common network partner or a common plugin?
Thank y’all for the feedback. Much appreciated.
@joannsnover wrote:
I’m on Bluehost – could it be a server slowdown issue?
I can’t rule anything out at this time but I have 7 more websites at the same hosting account and they are performing very well.
I’m a little lost now and I hope the techies here have ideas about what to do.
BTW, I checked the image search on my iPad. Results came slow again but this time WITH images from my network partners.I think I’ll try to disable the Bad Behavior plugin first. If that doesn’t resolve the issue I might have to disable the Symbiostock networking temporarily.
I’ll keep y’all posted.Thanks, Karen.
@joannsnover wrote:
I have priced a few images for licensing at FAA (just to try it out) but I set the prices so that the buyer price was roughly equivalent to my Symbiostock site price.
Not quite following. You can offer stock image licensing at fineartamerica.com?
@natalia wrote:
I am really curious if all that text indeed helps drive targeted traffic.
What are the driving queries? (if it is not a huge secret and know how)
How many SEO visitors buy your pictures? (if you track it somehow)How do you get ANY visitors to your site if search engines don’t list your site because there’s no information they can work with?
@natalia wrote:
Who buys your content: search engines or people?
What the ultimate effect is expected from search engines?
What are the search terms that will bring you additional traffic? What kind of traffic will it be?
Are you serious with your questions?
People buy my images, but only if they can find them.
Congrats! Nice image.
@natalia wrote:
I am really excited by the opportunity to share with you my best photographic work. My love of photography has primarily been in the areas of landscape and nature photos, but I am branching out into architectural scenes. There is a wealth of mining communities in Arizona that have wonderful older buildings to photograph. My wife and I also love to travel to Hawaii where there is an amazing array of natural beauty to take advantage of.
Why do buyers need to know this? What problems can they resolve with this statement?
It’s not always that buyers need to know but the the search engines do. I don’t write text on my pages for potential buyers – most of them won’t read it anyway. I write content for search engines to get a good ranking. Give them something to work with!
@marthamarks wrote:
EDITED: One question for somebody who might know: Do we have a direct link to our Register/Login page (other than the link at the top of the page)? I’d like to provide within the body of the text either a text or graphic link to that page but don’t know what the actual link URL is. Advice please, somebody, if you know.
Thanks!