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Hey Steve,
As I was explaining to Henri (who recently joined Symzio), the system has been organized to carry millions of images. Accordingly, it has a large number of processes that systematically work in the background to maintain the integrity of the search – most importantly, to ensure that if a contributor’s images are no longer available, the site does not serve those results.
At the same time, it also spiders contributor sites quite quickly to add fresh content very fast.
One of the processes that works in the background is a ‘quick-ping’ system: it very quickly pings contributor sites to ensure it is online. This is a shallow screen to quickly disable sites that may be offline, if even temporarily. It does not react to the ping on the first go – but if the site is down for more than one consecutive ping, it disables all media from that site.
Once the site is back up, the system naturally re-enables all the media.
Important things to note:
1) This whole process does NOT affect your media URLs, or their position in the search results.
2) Changing any meta data on your images, including titles, descriptions or tags, will NOT result in them being removed from the search results.
My guess is, while you were updating, or as you uploaded some code, your site was temporarily inaccessible for a few minutes. It was bad timing that the quick pings checked your site in that time. However, nothing huge is lost as your images will all be back soon – over half are back already.
The reason it is so strict and abrupt is that unlike agencies, everything, and I mean everything, depends on contributor sites being online. On contributor sites the widget will show broken images, on search results we’ll get broken images – even customer purchases won’t be able to finish because we don’t store your original and extract that in real time when generating orders.
It’s one of those necessary things that makes us different from agencies, and puts increased responsibility on the contributor. I wouldn’t worry too much about it though – we’ll tweak these things as time progresses to make the process smarter if possible.
Finally, for SEO purposes, Google does not care if content goes down temporarily. It won’t harm the ranking of your images in Google unless your site goes down quite often.
Hey Redneck,
Just make sure when you copy and paste the code that you fix the double quotes around the content text – this forum makes them weird quotes which prevents it from working in CSS.
I personally find the CSS solution really easy because you can customize the hell out of it. Give it another try regardless just to confirm it works if you can.
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BTW Redneck – your Symzio profile page:
http://www.symzio.com/contributor-10023.html
Looking bare! If you upsell your site here, you can get direct purchases and it’s also great for SEO.
Imagine what kind of network we’re creating when every contributor installs the widget on product pages.
You said it – now we’re seeing the big picture. Look at it like you’re recycling users until they decide to buy something – either someone else recycles them better, or we do it internally so someone within the community gets the sale. That’s the mentality. If everyone recycles every user, everyone gets more sales.
Additionally, we’ve severely upgraded the relevancy – it now works using a complex word-cloud system that scans your page in a split second. Google is going to love it.
Hey Redneck,
Best way to do it is via CSS:
.symzio_searchresults::before {
font-size:20px;
font-family:sans-serif;
content: “Relevant images from Symzio.com:”;
display:block;
text-align:left;
}if you have a custom class, or multiple locations for it, you can change which widget it attaches to by giving each widget a custom class name (available in the widget options):
.symzio_searchresults.customclass::before {
font-size:18px;
font-family:sans-serif;
content: “Relevant images from Symzio.com:”;
display:block;
text-align:left;
}Showing a title is really difficult as we don’t want to involve too many design elements to contributor sites; you can run 2 images at 50 pixels each which doesn’t give it much room. As there are so many options, and users are almost always going to have to customize the CSS anyways, this just makes it much more customizable.
2.1.11 ups the image limit to 100MB and the video limit to 20GB
2.1.11 definitively sorts files by upload date for processing now. It will always process the oldest media first.
We’ll experiment with showing the caption soon.
Hey Tim – one question – are you planning to join Symzio? Would love to have you in on the effort.
Let me look into changing this so it definitely does it by date. Right now it’s supposed to do that but relies on the filesystem to sort it which isn’t always reliable.
I will up it to 100mb in the next release – you can also manipulate it using the ‘ss_set_max_image_filesize’ filter.
Hey Steve,
In my opinion, it seems unlikely the SEO had much to do with your sales. It could have done something, but you’re currently missing one of the most important aspects of SEO on your site – all your titles and meta descriptions are the same!
You need to get Yoast to use your product titles and descriptions for your meta title and meta description. This is the one most important and integral on-page SEO factors.