I havent uploaded to SS about 6 weeks and the sales go down very rapidly. I have portfolio of about 200 pics on SS, now uploading irregularly but at least twice a month and it still seems there is lot of random sales. You need to push much much more to get usefull numbers, I bet 10-20 pics a week are minimum to keep sales going. So those talks about “passive income”, “investment” etc. are simply lies.
However DT seems to wake up after few months of slow uploads and sales are rising. The best performer is IS, where the sales are going up with portfolio size and irregular uploads or month delay doesnt seem to have any influence.

I would expect most agencies include metrics in their search algorithms that penalize portfolios with too many images with low sales. This way, spamming their portfolio works against the contributor. I know some agencies do this.

-Lee

We all take a lot of very similar images, most of them deleted directly in camera, but many comes in our computers, where we take a closer look to see wch one is the keeper. Many times we do have a hard time deciding which one is the best shot, this is where so many photographers fail, they upload all of them, leaving the work to decide to others. But what are they saying doing that? They say by that behaving that they are not competent deciding even over their own images! Imagine to wade through 38 shots of the same scene, to pick out the best one of them, and that there are 300 cases of the same mess every week, thats 11400 images, per week! Well, it is a lot easier to reject them all when a bunch of similar thumbnails appear. Followed by a “damn spammer” thought.

This is an interesting article you have written. I agree with most of it. However, with my experience it took only 1 month to drop to 50%! lmao.

I am a big believer of feeding the beast too. You do totally get out what you put in. I must say also that i found with regular uploading the sales increase expenentially.

How do i make sure my images are timeless? I never thought about it before reading this. I have a variety of images in my ports which seem to cover some of the seasons throughout the year but there is MUCH more to be done yet.

Just 2 cents from a guy with a 345 image gallery.

Steven

Nice article, btw.

tnx for that link to my article )

I got today a notice my name was used on a site (google alerts), so I came to check it out. Seems google crawls your site pretty fast, always a good sign.

Greetz
Stefan