I was wondering if anyone had any advice. I have keyworded my images and keep checking the customer records to see what people are looking at or buying...
I have noticed a couple of things. Please correct me if I am wrong.
1. There only seems to be 20-30 images sold per day on Alamy. Is this correct?
There are lots of images sold through direct requests to agencies or Alamy's own sales desk that don't show up in All of Alamy.
2. How can anyone else find my images if I cant find my images? What is the search engines ability and limitations?
Your images will show up with a keyword search of the keywords that you have used. Finding them in keyword searches that turn up hundreds or even thousands of pages of results is like searching for a needle in a haystack.
3. How do you get to be on the first or second page of a searched keyword?
Get lots of zooms of your images (harder now there are mouseover zooms that don't register) and have images that sell — that will improve your rank and move you closer to the exalted first few pages. Find subjects that don't have a gazillion images already nor things that are so esoteric that nobody will even look for them. Shoot a big variety of subjects, and get as many images into Alamy as you can. Look in All of Alamy for hints of what to shoot that sell, and are reasonably popular without thousands of views or pages of results.
Be prepared to get in to stock photography for the long run. It took most of us a long time to figure things out and have enough quality pics that buyers want. You've only been with Alamy a couple of months, just relax and keep shooting.
Is it the length of time an images has been with Alamy or is it something more sinister?
I had a zoom of an image that went on sale three days ago, yet sales can show up months after being zoomed.
I'm in Vancouver too...a little hint about what to shoot in the short term...anything to do with Five Rings...
Good luck...Dave
Ron
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