Finding Your Own Images In Large Searches

New keywords will have an affect when people search for those keywords.

If you want to do a general feel search try being more specific but not so specific as to limit it to Rich Franco.

eg, Glacier National Park waterfall, or even limited more, Glacier National Park Waterfalls... (Using the plural usually cuts the search in half.)

JC,

Thanks.

I've got about 50+ images and I started doing editing and keyword updating yesterday and need to finish the rest. What I'm trying to do, is see,after this effort, whether the work invested, is worth the potential movement of most, if not all of my images,closer to the front of the search results. If all images were waterfalls, this might work, but of course, ain't that simple!

I think having some "tool" like this,would benefit everyone here,especially the ones that don't have sales everyday! LOL!

Rich

Rich, adding new keywords will not help the image move up on the search for keywords that were already in there BUTTTTTTTTT you will expend what searches can lead to your work and you may catch a keyword phrase that wasn't there and that can help you get seen. Keep in mind, FAA doesn't automatically add things like in or the or and so they can be critical in some searches.

For example, "The Florida Panhandle." or "The Chrysler Building."

Makes a heck of a difference sometimes. The Chrylser Building returns 300ish resluts. Chrysler Building returns 1100.

Same ratio on The Florida Panhandle.

Rich,I'm about half afraid to edit anything at the present time.

Michael,

I did a bunch yesterday and no problems, 40-50!

JC,

I'll disagree with your "adding new keywords will not help the image move up on the search", because it does and did on ALL the new edits! From being about 20 pages back to the pages, 3,4,5 area. Some even better!

I think that this would also be a good tool, to verify certain keywords are in old uploads,without going and looking at every image and keyword group.

I found, my best sale from Glacier back in April,2012, a giant 4'x6' print. I got the dreaded email on a Friday, that the image wasn't good enough to go that big and worked all weekend, deleted the old image and the old keywords(this was before I found out that you could just delete the image itself and keep the keywords,description) and uploaded a better image and was sold. Unfortunately, I fogot to re-upload ANY keywords!!! So until I found this out yesterday, manually going through each image, it was there, but had no keywords and may as well been blank! See above for the image.

Rich

You may very well be right, (and probably are.)

I have no insider info on the search btw, I simply test various theories to figure stuff out. I wouldn't think adding keywords would change the search for existing keywords but I have been wrong before and will be again. I think I will go add bannana as a keyword to all my new Destin images and see what it does.

I had no idea that I should be using the plural if the subject was just one! I am also in the process of redoing my keywords as I also didn't realize that I should be specific about the subject in the first couple keywords - For example an orchid image, I was putting flora, flower first but when I started checking others work that is selling, they put orchid first then something like pink orchid then orchid flowers etc. Anyway long story shorter, I had changed a few keywords in a couple images earlier this afternoon and just checked one and it had already moved up to the third page YAY! Thanks for the info JC and Rich!

Yes I don't know why dog and dogs doesn't get you the same search results, it should.

Gary,

Seems to be all kinds of little quirks here we need to find out about. I'm testing out some new thoughts tonight and will see maybe tomorrow,

Rich