Comments on: Can a Little Maintenance Increase your Microstock Earnings?

By: kickstand

kickstand — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:09:50 +0000

I would never delete a good-selling photo. You never know how the selling history affects your search rankings.

If it’s not clear how to replace the photo, try contacting the site administrators and ask them how you can do it. Sometimes you can submit a new image with a note “please replace file xxxxxx”. Certainly “fixing” an image would be to both their benefit and yours.

By: pdtnc

pdtnc — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:41:42 +0000

I’ve done a little, but I feel i could do more… with the time.
I think rationalising your keywords and adding sensible descriptive titles / descriptions is a good idea

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:28:44 +0000

I agree – I have taken advantage of the PhotoKeywords tool to add keywords (some obvious, in retrospect) to slow moving images. While these images have not become overnight best-sellers, they have moved out of the basement.

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:08:01 +0000

Definitely yes! Revamping keywords or even re-processing old photos has helped some of my older images a lot in the past. In some cases though, it’s just not worth the effort and you’ll be better off re-shooting. This, I’ve found, is especially true with photos that are old enough, that your current skills far outshine your old photos.

Doing portfolio maintenance is very important. I would suggest going over your portfolio every six months or so.