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bolsher · Joined: 05 Nov 2008 Posts: 25

Hallo at all,

i have in my gallery stats very much pics, which are not downloaded per keywords. Is this normally, or is this a sign for bad keywording?

Thanks a lot for your answers.

jeffbanke · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:32 pm

Can you give us an example of what you mean?

triceratops · Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 7875 Location: The other Nevada

Not all that unusual. Buyers see an image they like when looking at the latest downloads, or when looking at your portfolio, and then buy it. No keywords involved. Keywords become critical for those buyers not searching this way or later on, once the newness has worn off.

robhainer · Joined: 03 May 2010 Posts: 2772 Location: Dallas, GA, USA

A lot of times when images are new, I think this happens. Buyers see them as they pop up and don't need to do a keyword search, or they search by category.

bolsher · Joined: 05 Nov 2008 Posts: 25

Thanks,that was what i wanted to know.

jeffbanke · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:05 am

Actually with 70,000 images a week or more, it is impossible that a buyer just happens to see an image pop up.
They must have either first fav'ed the contributor and as such are only looking at the one port, or done a search on keywords, and searched newest images.
So, I guess i am disagreeing with Rob and Russ in that respect., since it is not logical that one could just happen upon an image out of the 70,000-125,000 images that are new each week.

hhltdave5 · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:26 am

One way it could happen is when someone is searching for an image and they use keywords many images will come up and they select one to look at. When that image comes up they will also see a number of shots that are called similar images. If they buy one of those I am not sure if the keyword they used to find the initial image is associated with the image they found in the "similar" section.

Another way is if they select an image from the Main Shutterstock page (not the contributor page like we sign into) they have images that have been chosen either for the lightboxes or the rotating images at the top of the page. If they click on either of those they can find many images in the similar section without using any keywords at all to find the initial image.

Of course the initial image in the lightbox or on the top of the main page would also not be associated with a keyword but you would have to have an image in those areas to begin with.

Most likely though it would be found by the similar image method.