Search Limitation

All search words now stop at page 28.

I doubt most customers would wage through 28 pages.

It sounds as those two keywords are part of a larger saturated market, and my understanding is the search does not go past page 28. If continuing to use those keywords, the best advise I can give at this point is to find, drag, and push your own clients in to make purchases. This will help move you up the search ladder.

Additionally, there are changes to the site in the works. We'll have to wait patiently and see what is ultimately revealed.

Thanks so much.

While I doubt people will click through all 28 pages, I suspect some may go through the first 1-3 pages and start making bigger jumps to say page 10, 20, 30, particularly if they haven't found something they are looking for in the first few pages. The solution is to include more specific keywords since it can be very challenging to show up in the search for very generic keywords.

Ravenel Bridge
Arthur Ravenel Bridge
Magnolia Plantation
Botany Bay
Charleston sc bridge

and numerous others all tap out on less than 28 pages of images.

i'd still like to know why it doesn't go beyond page 28, even though it shows more pages and shows more results. i think a buyer would go past that. if you see lots of the same images you tend to skip dozens at a time just to see something new. it really should allow people to see to the end. it would give more chances at being seen.

---Mike Savad

I can only hope that the average searcher will realize the search is too broad and add another search term. Location tags are just for that. Location. The search results can not make sense until another word like map, cityscape, buildings or harbor are added.

That has happened to me as well, Willie. Some of the keywords I know are on all of my photos wont show up in a search.... I wish they did.

You can also narrow down a search by specifying what medium you wish to search for. I don't know if the average buyer would know to do this though, but I suspect many times the average buyer doesn't search on FAA, but rather Google or some other search site.

...........but I suspect many times the average buyer doesn't search on FAA, but rather Google or some other search site.

That's what I think, too, Joseph. It's just that our FAA presence on e.g. Google has become pretty sparse

Personally.. I'd gladly "wade" through 28 pages to find what I'm looking for.. It's a bit of a shame that all images are not included in the searches. Anyhow, this subject has been discussed to death. There are a few threads on this topic that are worth checking out Willie. I do hope FAA have considered the unfair nature of the search and are taking action!

Limiting search result like that doesn't make sense to me. This effectively means that most new images no matter how good will get buried with little or no chance of being seen. That is unless of course someone finds them somehow and buys them a few times. If I have to drag my customers in and make them buy my work why should I use FAA? I might as well drag them to my own website... I thought the whole point of FAA (from seller perspective) was to get more exposure.

But surely buyers CAN see your new images Alexey by clicking on the "recently added" option ! Or most comments,most votes etc ! All the options are very clearly presented. Having said that,I agree that it would be nice if there were infinite pages and everything was included in the way you wish. I for one ,like Barry,would be quite happy to browse for hours till I found exactly what I wanted !

Willie?''While searching through those limited 28 pages hopeing that somehow you might have been picked up,did you come across one of those"Fine ART Prints" of the same frickin image by the same"artist" with a different coloured back ground,pasted on 4 or 5 of those precious 28 pages? Those really piss me off. Just sayin,ain't right that's all.

I am with Mike Savad on this one. There are only so many plausible keywords for some images. And most buyers are not that specific. The buyer should absolutely have the option to see every single image tagged with Charleston SC, or whatever it is. If I was looking for an image from Charleston, I would search that tag, and not go to "recently added."

The search is so broke now I am sickened that I spent 2 years here establishing a niche market and making sales and I have no visibility in that niche. Showing hundreds of a few artists while hardly showing anything else will not engage visitors to go beyond 5 pages much less 28. I get it already that they have to promote the best selling artists but not all of their unsold work over my work that has sold multiple times.

I agree with Mike and have brought this question up multiple times. Seems to me from the business standpoint it is cutting out profits for the site and the artists by not going past 28 pages. If I do a search for something, Im the type that would jump around if I didn't see anything I liked in the first two or three, I'd probably jump to 20 then 30 then 45 etc etc just to see the different options that were available, who's to say how many pages a potential buyer go through or what their system is for doing so. To me, I feel like if it's posted on the site, give the customer access to it, if we take the time to make the image, post it, write up all the descriptions and keyword lists for the site to get recognized on google and stay at the top, the least they could do is show it. Let the customer decide how much time they want to give to the searches, they can wade as deep as they want and not be limited to those images offered just on the first 28, I think limiting the customer to a portion of the site is only hurting profits for everyone. Making the client miss out on the other 3/4 of wonderful art and artists that they just might like better than the images they saw in the first 28 pages, But hey, not my site, not my rules.

Thanks to all who commented and participated in the "Search Limitation" topic. My position is that the search should allow all the images to be be seen. I know of several commercial interior designers that will search through zillions of pages to get the exact/perfect image for their client. However, it is what it is. Again, thanks, I will soon close the discussion.