Stock House Thursday: BigStock.com
Up this week is BigStock.com. Bigstock is actually owned by Shutterstock, but does not have the same keyword requirements, nor the same search engine, so be careful if you contribute to to both stock houses, as what you have found that works at one may not work at the other.
Stock House Thursday: CanStock.com
Following up last week’s analysis of Pond5.com I will now take an in depth look at how CanStock.com handles keywords.
These aren’t really “reviews,” in that they will have no thumbs up or down at the end. This is not intended to be a recommendation or otherwise about any of the stock houses I will analyze. Most of the elements I’m looking at don’t necessarily have an objective right or wrong answer. The only thing that really matters is that the photographer know the correct way to keyword for the individual stock house. Continue reading
Stock House Thursday: Pond5.com
Following up last week’s analysis of MasterFile.com I will now take an in depth look at how Pond5.com handles keywords.
These aren’t really “reviews,” in that they will have no thumbs up or down at the end. This is not intended to be a recommendation or otherwise about any of the stock houses I will analyze. Most of the elements I’m looking at don’t necessarily have an objective right or wrong answer. The only thing that really matters is that the photographer know the correct way to keyword for the individual stock house. Continue reading
Stock House Thursday: MasterFile.com
Following up last week’s analysis of PhotoShelter.com I will now take an in depth look at how Masterfile.com handles keywords.
These aren’t really “reviews,” in that they will have no thumbs up or down at the end. This is not intended to be a recommendation or otherwise about any of the stock houses I will analyze. Most of the elements I’m looking at don’t necessarily have an objective right or wrong answer. The only thing that really matters is that the photographer know the correct way to keyword for the individual stock house. Continue reading
Stock House Thursdays: PhotoShelter.com
Following up last week’s analysis of NationalGeographicStock.com I will now take an in depth look at how handles PhotoShelter.com keywords.
These aren’t really “reviews,” in that they will have no thumbs up or down at the end. This is not intended to be a recommendation or otherwise about any of the stock houses I will analyze. Most of the elements I’m looking at don’t necessarily have an objective right or wrong answer. The only thing that really matters is that the photographer know the correct way to keyword for the individual stock house. Continue reading
Stock House Thursday: NationalGeographicStock.com
Following up last week’s analysis of Fotolia.com I will now take an in depth look at how handles NationalGeographicStock.com keywords.
These aren’t really “reviews,” in that they will have no thumbs up or down at the end. This is not intended to be a recommendation or otherwise about any of the stock houses I will analyze. Most of the elements I’m looking at don’t necessarily have an objective right or wrong answer. The only thing that really matters is that the photographer know the correct way to keyword for the individual stock house.
If you haven’t read my introductory post for this series, on the various ways stock houses differ in their keyword standards, you probably should read 10 Ways that Stock Houses can be different in their Keywording Standards first.
I hope to provide an in depth look at how stock houses deal with keywords, and how their search engine works in order to give their contributors a complete set of requirements so that they can keyword their images get maximum exposure at the site. Continue reading
Following up last week’s analysis of Dreamstime.com, I will now take an in depth look at how Fotolia.com handles keywords. These aren’t really “reviews,” in that they will have no thumbs up or down at the end. This is not intended to be a recommendation or otherwise about any of the stock houses I will analyze. Most of the elements I’m looking at don’t necessarily have an objective right or wrong answer. The only thing that really matters is that the photographer know the correct way to keyword for the individual stock house. Continue reading
Following up last week’s analysis of AgeFotoStock.com, I will now take an in depth look at how Dreamstime.com handles keywords.
These aren’t really “reviews,” in that they will have no thumbs up or down at the end. This is not intended to be a recommendation or otherwise about any of the stock houses I will analyze. Most of the elements I’m looking at don’t necessarily have an objective right or wrong answer. The only thing that really matters is that the photographer know the correct way to keyword for the individual stock house. Continue reading
Welcome:
This is all the work that went on behind the scenes for me to give an accurate, in-depth analyses of the stock houses I have reviewed in my series of posts call Stock House Thursdays. For readers who haven’t yet read any of these posts, you would do well to first read my introductory post to the series: 10 Ways that Stock Houses can be different in their Keywording Standards.
For those of you who have arrived here having already read one of my stock house analyses, congratulations for being curious enough about what I’m doing to read the gruesome details of how I’m doing it. This will greatly benefit you. By knowing how I did my analysis, you can use my methods at any stock house, or even your own personal website. Understanding why I did each of my searches, and why I chose particular keywords to test will inevitably help you to truly understand the concepts behind keywords that will give you an advantage over most other photographers. Continue reading
Stock House Thursdays: AgeFotoStock.com
Following up last week’s analysis of Alamy, I will now take an in depth look at how AgeFotoStock handles keywords.
First, a quick introduction to how I am going about this process:
I am not choosing the stock houses in any particular order other than I plan on starting with some of the big players first, as they have a lot more contributors, and after all, I would like this information to be useful to somebody. Continue reading
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