Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
I can see all of your images @ http://www.photostockit.com/?s=&post_type=image
FYI: Not everyone understands what a ladybird is. Most of North America calls it a lady bug or ladybug.
When I first started Symbiostock and was reading about a ladybird, I had no idea what they were talking about.
You might also want to consider putting an image of a ladybird / ladybug next to the word so that it might make it easier for people to understand.
@shelma1 wrote:
It’s supposed to only show the sites you’ve linked to, but like you I sometimes get results from more than 10 sites and some sites I haven’t linked to. I’m not sure why. Sorry…
It has to do with promoted keywords (which you can find at the bottom of the Network page).
Sorry, but I have to (respectfully) strongly disagree with this.
Symbiostock sites started showing up last Spring (almost a year ago). New sites are popping up almost every day or so. In other words, Symbiostock sites have been popping up consistently over the past year. They didn’t all of a sudden appear in a day or a week. So there is no way that a generic computer program (such as Google) could somehow figure out that all of these sites are a “network”, especially when there are many other sites linking to them (blogs, forums, etc).
As far as FB and Twitter are concerned, I feel like they are a waste of time. They only account for a few % of the traffic that is coming to our sites. IMO, it is a huge wast of time to concentrate on something that only provides a few % of traffic. People don’t search for images on FB or Twitter. They search for images on Google. So I would rather spend the majority of time on areas where most of our traffic is coming from (and potential sales) – which is Google. Please understand that I’m not saying that FB and Twitter are a total waste of time. I just don’t think that a majority of our energy should be put in an area that doesn’t produce results.
I have thought about this for a long time (many months), and IMO, we should be concentrating on increasing the network capabilities of Symbiostock. The network aspect is one of the only reasons that people are actually getting ANY sales. Without the network aspect, customers would never be able to find your website out of the billions that are out there. IMO, if you reduce the networking aspect of Symbiostock, you will effectively be killing it.
There is a good amount of evidence for this as well. Many artists have tried to sell their images on various websites with little (if any) success. Many people have discussed how much better Symbiostock is than these other websites.
@djpadavona wrote:
…if a list of sites suddenly pop up, all pointing to each other, but few people outside the network is pointing at them, Google devalues the links and considers them a poor quality network.
How would Google determine if a site is in a “network” or not?
@redneck wrote:
@shazamimages wrote:
@peresanz wrote:
…I think that after some time, having 15 links instead of 10 may make no difference…
I believe that it will make a difference, because the more incoming links a site has, then the higher their search rank will be in Google (and I believe that is one of the most important variables to getting sales).
I think that was the case before “Hummingbird” came along.
I believe “Hummingbird” was the reason that the entire Symbiostock networking idea took a serious hit in August/September 2013. That’s why I wouldn’t too optimistic about back and forth linking helping your site a lot.While traffic did go down at the end of Sept/start of October, it has rebounded nicely since then.
Google makes up about 85+% of the traffic that comes to our websites. We get almost nothing from Twitter, Facebook, Bing, etc.
I see all of this work done on language translations, Facebook, Twitter, ad infinitum, but none of that is driving much traffic to our sites at all. I understand that people want all of this functionality, but if nobody is coming to your website then it doesn’t matter one bit (except to the site owner of course).
So, IMHO, I think that the majority of new development work done on Symbiostock should be in trying to increase ranking on Google.
And one way of doing that would be to increase the number of links that come to our websites.
@peresanz wrote:
…I think that after some time, having 15 links instead of 10 may make no difference…
I believe that it will make a difference, because the more incoming links a site has, then the higher their search rank will be in Google (and I believe that is one of the most important variables to getting sales).
@cthoman wrote:
I was wondering why we only have 10 links. I wouldn’t mind opening up my site to a larger link exchange. Am I the only one thinking this or are there others?
I think that it was set to 10 initially because there were worries about performance, but those worries seem to have dissipated.
I would also like to see more than 10 links.
I believe that linking is the single most important aspect of sales. The more links that you have coming to your website, then the more likely you are to show up on the first few pages on Google. And that is where I see the majority of traffic coming from.
@redneck wrote:
…the network results should be shown in only ONE block instead of every single one separately.
I remember making that suggestion a few months ago and it was shot down, but I don’t remember the reason why the person shot it down (and I believe that it was a relatively good reason).
I would love to see just one block on search results with mine at the top, followed by results from my network, then followed by everything else. And if a customer clicks on an image from someone else, then that image should be opened up in a new (separate) browser window. This way, my website still has focus in one of the browser sessions.
@cascoly wrote:
http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=66 shows how many sites alexa has found that link to a site – this isn’t the same of course as actual links reported by webmaster tools
FYI: For some reason, the report seems to be missing Leo’s website (which has 310 sites linking in):
Christine:
Thanks for telling us how to turn it off, but I still would like to know what it is supposed to be telling us.
It would be great if someone could figure out how to increase the network from 10 to 15 or 20. Then Leo could add the changes into a future update.
@shelma1 wrote:
I’m guessing it’s telling you your images have been added to the network? Probably you get the email the day after you add images.
I don’t think so, I haven’t added images in a while and I just got an email two days in a row.
Here’s mine:
http://shazamimages.com/image/perfect-blue-water-drop/
Thanks for all of your hard work.
@shelma1 wrote:
I think working out purchasing bugs should be a big priority.
I don’t believe that this is a bug with Symbiostock, but rather with the Safari browser on Apple devices.
It might be helpful if you posted a link to the image.
