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niserin
Joined: 11 May 2006
Posts: 295
Location: Poland
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:07 am
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Right, on one hand I am happy since the whole batch was approved, on the other, it's just before Saturday and Sunday (considering about 24 hours for them to appear in the search engine).
I've always tried to send pictures to be approved at the beginning of the week.
Do you think that pictures approved before the weekend have less chance of being noticed ? What's your experience in that matter ?
Michal |
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hhltdave5
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
Posts: 24059
Location: Our Stock, Food & Portrait photography books at www.rindersmithphotography.com
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:45 am
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The problem is that you never know for sure how long it will take for the review to be completed or how long it takes to get them all syncd up with the servers.
I always tried to estimate it so they would be available for sale on Monday and not the weekend because many places do not buy their images on the weekend. Depending on the image type many more can be approved of the same type and in that case by the time the weekend is over your images are further down in the search when a search is done by newest.
So seeing you can never know just how long a review will take there is no way to control it. |
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niserin
Joined: 11 May 2006
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Location: Poland
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:17 am
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The sad things is the whole work might be wasted for that reason.
I used to "control" it be sending around Friday, but this works for photos. Illustrations seem to take about a week.
Now I am thinking about deleting the images and sending them again trying my luck and estimating based on previous batches. |
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hhltdave5
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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Location: Our Stock, Food & Portrait photography books at www.rindersmithphotography.com
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:35 am
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| niserin wrote: | The sad things is the whole work might be wasted for that reason.
I used to "control" it be sending around Friday, but this works for photos. Illustrations seem to take about a week.
Now I am thinking about deleting the images and sending them again trying my luck and estimating based on previous batches. |
I think you are putting way to much thought into this. One time the batch could be reviewed in a day, other times it may take a week, other times 4 days. There are just too many variables. Just submit images on a regular basis. Giving this so much thought and effort is just going to give you a headache. |
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niserin
Joined: 11 May 2006
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Location: Poland
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:35 am
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Maybe, but this seemingly irrelevant thing might be a decisive factor in the whole process, especially these days...
Will see.. |
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pharm
Joined: 09 Jul 2006
Posts: 9406
Location: Never quite sure
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:57 am
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| niserin wrote: | | ...Now I am thinking about deleting the images and sending them again trying my luck and estimating based on previous batches. |
I would consider that very carefully before I did it. It's always possible some of your images won't be approved the second time around and then you've lost out on potential sales regardless of when they show up. |
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warrenprice
Joined: 15 Dec 2009
Posts: 419
Location: Central Texas
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:11 pm
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Another view point: For the last month or so, I have being seeing more sales on Sunday than on Monday. Trying to predict "anything" is very difficult. I gave up. :-) |
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fyle
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:16 pm
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| niserin wrote: | Maybe, but this seemingly irrelevant thing might be a decisive factor in the whole process, especially these days...
Will see.. |
Yup, your images will be refused because of the second upload. I have this experience and the refusal reason will be something like "Do not upload once approved images". They keep record, even if you delete files, previous approval is recorded. |
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camdoc3
Joined: 30 Jun 2006
Posts: 1546
Location: trinidadimages.com
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 10:46 am
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I think you are putting way to much thought into this. One time the batch could be reviewed in a day, other times it may take a week, other times 4 days. There are just too many variables. Just submit images on a regular basis. Giving this so much thought and effort is just going to give you a headache. |
My advice also just submit and cross your fingers. |
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peteklinger
Joined: 01 Aug 2007
Posts: 1027
Location: Great Place By a Great Lake
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 10:54 pm
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| niserin wrote: | The sad things is the whole work might be wasted for that reason.
I used to "control" it be sending around Friday, but this works for photos. Illustrations seem to take about a week.
Now I am thinking about deleting the images and sending them again trying my luck and estimating based on previous batches. |
I find it sad that people think trick keywords, upload day of the week / approved day of the week or being on page one of the search, is more important than just having a good image?
You aren't the first one to suggest deleting images and sending them in again. Someone else said they take what they think are under preforming "good" images and re-submit them after a year to get a sales boost as a new image.
Maybe I'm just stupid, but I don't understand all the gaming the system that people go through, when in the long run, good images will sell and less desirable won't.
Then there's the part about overworked reviewers, with 10,000 new images a day, rejection re-subs (some never edited, just sent in over and over again) and recycled re-subs from people who think they can get something to getting a better rank if they delete it and send it in again?
Then folks want to know why reviews can take up to a week now?
Yes SS does track images now. I sent one in by accident, that was refused months before. I was cleaning up old folders on an old laptop. I got a warning for re-submitting rejected images. That was about six months later.
I'd be afraid of having my account closed or as someone else observed, what if the second time, the image is refused. Then it's all for nothing. |
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niserin
Joined: 11 May 2006
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Location: Poland
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:47 am
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Kind of agree with what you said peterklinger, but that's the characteristic of the industry we work in. And no, it's not like that a good image will always cut through. You know in the perfect world such games and tricks would never cross my mind.
I've just had another batch approved today, again just before the weekend even though I allowed for the review time.
I have to live with it ;) |
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