Идеята ми е да обсъдим какви са вариантите при най-сериозните агенции и да се подкрепяме както правят много други (например в IS / Most popular files / Highest rated files (last three months)).
Тук хора с рейтинг 5.000 от 61 гласа са в класацията.По този начин те със сигурност получават повече преглеждания на тяхното портфолио,което дори да не доведе до повече даунлоуди поне ги избутва напред при търсенията.Всяко разглеждане на портфолио на някой от нас повишава неговия ранкинг!Аз се опитвам да го правя от време навреме но ако всички отделим по няколко минути дневно може би ще си заслужава.

Иска ми се българската сток общност да става все по-организирана и успешна!
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Skewed/false ranking Stock pictures will normally sell less and less because pictures will gradually start to look outdated. For example, looking at pictures from the 80s and you can almost always tell, the hair, the clothes, etc. People in the future looking back at the pictures being taken now will feel the same, and would probably be hesitating to buy such pictures. Now when you see a search display on a stock agency, the first page almost always is a show-off of very popular images. The search engine ranking is based on an automatic feature based on the amount of clicks, views and downloads this image has.

So when pictures become naturally outdated they get less clicks, views and downloads and therefore go backwards in the ranking. A picture that was once very popular will gradually get placed further and further back in the search ranking. This is the normal case, but sometimes agencies use parameters to push curtain images forward or change the search result ranking. This is know as skewed or “false ranking”. For example, if I was the CEO of a stock agency and I had just launched a new collection of images alongside my other images, it would be tempting to push these images a little forward in the search results so they become more visible and therefore sell more. This would give the impression that this new collection was and is a great success and it would be easy to convince photographers and agencies to give their material to this collection. Being a photographer contributing to a collection that is falsely pushed forward can be very profitable. However, it can also be very dangerous if the CEO stops favoring your collection as your income will drop immediately to the generic level (not pushed forward).

It is rumored that some Getty photographers experienced this a couple of years ago and went from making 30,000USD+ per month to 3,000-4,000USD+ per month. Skewed collections are not necessarily bad, but if they represent a large portion or all of your income, then you should be very careful. The most familiar skewed rankings are: Freshness ranking. Ultrahigh priority on new images. Shutterstock is the most known example, where you can go up in income by 100-200 percent by uploading a new batch of images about 10% of the size of your total portfolio. This boost of income lasts about a week and then you are virtually back to status quo. Oldness handicap. Giving old pictures a handicap counter that pushes them backwards before they naturally get outdated. This keeps the search display fresh and filled with new images but the old images will almost never sell. iStock is speculated to do this. On iStock, images more than a year old are almost invisible in the default search ranking. Collection ranking. Giving a curtain collection of images a higher rank than other images. Inspector rating ranking.

A lot of agencies operate with an inspector ranking system that marks a picture and gives it a preference in the search queue ranking. Agencies like Crestock, Dreamstime and Fotolia are public about this ranking. Photographer success ranking. Based on the success of the photographer the images are pushed forward. This system is currently only used by Alamy. Title/description skew. If an agency has problems with getting accurate and flawless search displays, they sometimes do something drastic: include the title and description to have weight in the ranking. This means that if I search for “fun” the images that have this keyword will appear, but the images that has “fun” in their title and description will be ranked much higher. The reason this ranking system is “desperate” is because photographers don’t put in titles so they contain keywords. They put in titles so they are titles, like “a wonderful day” or “I need a new job”. So instead of letting the keywords have weight they base their ranking on an assumption: that in general, people will have titles with important keywords in them.

Dreamstime, Fotolia and Luckyoliver are the only agencies operating with this kind of ranking, and it is highly unpopular among photographers. Branding. If you are good at branding yourself, this will give you more views, clicks and downloads than other users and skew the normal buying patterns to your advantage. Branding is extremely difficult in microstock, and requires a lot of forum activity, interviews, writing tutorials, doing blogs or just simply being visible. In the most extreme case of branding (Yuri Arcurs) it is estimated to skew the normal buying patterns by up to 10 – 15 percent. This means that I estimate my income to be 10-15 percent higher on the accounts where I use the Yuri Arcurs name because people recognize this brand. False rankings are good business for an agency, and there is nothing wrong with doing so. The only thing that you, the photographer, should do about it is try to have awareness of it so you don’t get surprised. Spread your collections out over more agencies so you don’t lose too big.

Не зная защо всичко,което пиша после излиза слято?

Специално за ИС винаги съм мислила, че този ранкинг зависи от това хората дали гласуват за твоя снимка в полето Ratings (5/5) and Reviews(0)

Не че нещо, но откакто е отворена тази тема имам "цели две" покани за присъединяване в мрежа.

Лошо няма, ако не за облаги, поне ще виждаме кой-какво-кога и как. Поздрави!

Добре е да си помагаме

istock са постигнали почти идеала при търсене - тяхната цел е да имат качество на резултатите като Google.

И при двата сайта начин да ги изментиш има, но вече са изключително сложни, много краткотрайни и вероятно ще има наказания/

Така че забравете трикчетата. Най-лесно се печели с голямо и качествено портфолио.

Изпратих покани на колегите в ИС, които открих. Сигурно съм пропуснала много хора, затова давам адреса към моя профил: http://www.istockphoto.com/ineskoleva

Надявам се да съм полезна.