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Aug 19, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post

Guess the Keywords

I’ve written a few blogs about keywording, quite simply because good keywording is a way to increase sales. It really is an art to getting it right, and I think that the way we keyword is something we all need to assess from time to time.

Aug 13, 2011 | 8 comments | View Post

Microstock tips from the experts

Some interesting blogs recently. Motivational but also a reality check..

Nov 29, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

The Importance of Keywording in Earnest

One of the most useful resources offered by a microstock agency is Dreamstime’s “Buyer searched after” keyword information. It’s great to have good, marketable images, it’s even better if they are found…

Feb 23, 2010 | 3 comments | View Post

Keywords and Images to Avoid

The use of the following keywords will trigger off sirens at BigStock’s Head Quarters and a cage will be dropped over the reviewer who is examining your image. The reviewer will not be released until the suspect keyword or image in question is fully screened…

Jan 14, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post

Sheep or Sheeps?

Huh! Ok lets try that again. Cat or cats? Back to our favourite subject of keywording. If you have a photo of a cat, ie. one solitary feline friend. Do you just enter the singular of the word or the plural also? Or are you reading this thinking, whatever, i’m a superstar and my cat [...]

Feb 01, 2009 | 2 comments | View Post

What? Keywording? I thought I was a photographer!

So you’ve done your shoot and if like me, you’ve toiled with Photoshop. Right, lets send those amazing pics to the world. Wait, you can’t. You have to keyword your images, using words that you think a potential buyer will use in their search. What if I spent my youth bunking off school and my spelling is terribul?

Jan 09, 2009 | 8 comments | View Post