I am a bit late (this video just came up in my feed) but I wanted to thank you for this video because I feel it is still very relevant to my photography biz! I appreciate it.
Thanks for the great tips👍🏼 Not a fan of keywords or descriptions, although I’ve gotten much better at both. I will be watching this video again. So glad I subscribed.
I have been a photographer for almost about 6 years now, but never have been this motivated towards stock photography. Wonderful presentation... Just a small thing I noticed, your monitor seemed really bright and was distracting a bit. Cheers!
Good info once again. I would be interested in video by yourself on maybe your best 5-10 photos on shutterstock, why you think they sell so well. Also your lowest sellers? Is there anyway to gauge from shutterstock how many searches there are say for landscape photography? If something not sell well or at all, does it hurt your portfolio in anyway just keeping it there as might be surprised tomorrow with a sell? Thanks
I just took a look at my top 10 on Shutterstock, about 5 of them I can see why they sell well, the other 5 I am at a bit of a loss why, but think it would be good to share so will add it to my list of future video ideas. Regarding ones that don't sell, 80 out of the 400 photos I have uploaded to Shutterstock have never made a single sale. I don't think leaving the bad ones up hurt my sales but don't really know for sure. Cheers.
I just posted a video that includes my best 5 photos on shutterstock and why I think they are successful, here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/WxkWxxDHQVI/v-deo.html Hope it helps.
Hi, can you help me with these: 1. any bulk upscaler or resizer tool ? 2. any bulk image generator tool? 3. any bulk image seo tool ? 4. bulk image uploader tool? And when i say 'tool', it means software.
I have scanned 5000+ 4 X 6 prints that are 25+ years old with many in immaculate condition and a few that have faded to a brown overcast. Do the stock agencies allow uploads of the same photo such as 1) uploading the brown overcast fading original as a retro photo and then 2) converting that same photo to a black and white and then upload? I would have different keywords for both photos based on your tips in this video but would the stock agencies allow duplicate photos with different edits?
I started uploading to Shutterstock after seeing your video, with photos I have on other sites. It is a mix of geographical locations. I mainly shoot in Spain now,- should I, in your opinion and to increase sales, limit my upload to Spanish shots and create a different account for other content? Maybe a tutorial some day on this topic?Thanks in advance! ;-)
No. I wouldn't recommend that. As you make more sales on Shutterstock they will increase you pay per photo so you don't want to split the sales across multiple accounts. Hope it helps.
I don't think a niche or two is as important for stock as it is for social. Stock photos are normally found via the search, not someone following you. However, if you do have a niche and get very good at one type of photography you are more likely to have amazing photos that get sales, hope it helps.
James, with the long tail keywords, does it matter if it’s as in your example, two tags “logging” and “industry” or one two-word tag? How does it impact the search?
For that example, Logging and industry were two different keywords. Typically if the keywords can be combined in a number of ways I keep them separate. However, if the keywords need to be together to get the correct meaning then I will put them together. For example, my province in Canada is "British Columbia", I often put those in the same keyword because "British" and "Columbia" have different meanings when separated. However, I haven't seen anything in my sales that point toward one way being better than the other. Hope this helps.
Yes, we have this on our list of things to fix, in the mean time. If you enter double keywords in your photo editing software before uploading to Photerloo it will keep them as separate words. We plan to add the ability to add multi-word keywords to Photerloo in the future.
Thanks, you are right, I definitely should have done the video in Incognito, will try to remember next time :). I just did a quick test and the results were similar so I don't think it skewed the search results to much. Thanks for the advice.
Hard to say but probably the first 100 photos I was just guessing and trying different things. After 100 photos and a couple of months, I started to see patterns in which photos were selling and which ones weren't. That being said, I have been uploading for 7 years and the sites, algorithms, and techniques change so much, I feel like I am always still learning.
@@rastykatze I bought my first DSLR (a Nikon D5000) in December of 2009 and started to actively learn photography. So, I had been learning photography for almost 3 years before I started posting the photos to stock. So, I wasn't posting my first photos to the stock sites but I wasn't an expert before I started and have learned a lot since then.
@@Photerloo Okay, nice. Is it possible to get a "low ranked" picture to do well eventualy? I didn't really use the potential I have with marketing my pictures on other platforms online, so I am incoorporating this right now as well as beginning to post some more pictures on other stock platforms as well. Would you say focusing on one is better or diversifying on different pages?
@@kerbslukas6195 Yes, it is possible but the photo needs to be more marketable than the existing photos, by more marketable I mean, more preferred by the buyers than the existing photos. It isn't enough to just have better photos because "better" is very subjective. Personally, most of my best sellers aren't what I consider my best photos, but that's life. If you are just starting out in stock and have a lot of images already, I would first upload them to Shutterstock, then move on to Adobe Stock. If you are seeing some sales from those sites then invest the time to upload to some of the other sites. Hope this helps.
Finally someone else seems to understand that relevant keywords are more useful than quantity of keywords.
This beginner thanks you for a first-rate presentation.
Oh my goodness. This video is AMAZING!!! Getting into Stock is something I'm finally looking into and this has been one of the most helpful videos!
I am a bit late (this video just came up in my feed) but I wanted to thank you for this video because I feel it is still very relevant to my photography biz! I appreciate it.
Thanks a lot! I was always trying to use up all 50 keywords and also spent too much time and effort on it. Time to try a different strategy!
Thanks for the great tips👍🏼 Not a fan of keywords or descriptions, although I’ve gotten much better at both. I will be watching this video again. So glad I subscribed.
Thanks a lot for sharing information 👍
Helpful video! Thanks! Gave the thumbs up.
fantastic video. comprehensive, straightforward, and clearly communicated. thanks so much!
Thank you for the tips. For microphone recording I would suggest you to use a pop filter
Great video, very informative. Thanks, new follower here.
Great info...!!! thanks ...not sure if Photerloo can produce the Titles ???...will look into the program ...
Cheerrrrrsss....
Very useful information. Going to try out your tool next.
Thank you James, learned a lot from this video. I will certainly try your tips.
Must say that I'm really enjoying your videos James. Will certainly be subscribing to Photerloo.
Thanks, glad they are helpful.
Thanks for keywords
Great video, very helpful and easy to understand, especially with the screen recording walk throughs
I have been a photographer for almost about 6 years now, but never have been this motivated towards stock photography. Wonderful presentation... Just a small thing I noticed, your monitor seemed really bright and was distracting a bit. Cheers!
Thank you very honest video
wow this is so helpful looking forward to uploading more photos and getting those sales
****DONT QUIT. thank you sir for your time
Thanks bro 🤝🙏
Nice informative video, looking forward to more videos from you, thanks..
Thanks, I am aiming to publish 1 a week for the foreseeable future.
This was very helpful. Thanks!
thank you 🙏🏽
Great tips! This was extremely helpful!
Good info once again. I would be interested in video by yourself on maybe your best 5-10 photos on shutterstock, why you think they sell so well. Also your lowest sellers? Is there anyway to gauge from shutterstock how many searches there are say for landscape photography? If something not sell well or at all, does it hurt your portfolio in anyway just keeping it there as might be surprised tomorrow with a sell? Thanks
I just took a look at my top 10 on Shutterstock, about 5 of them I can see why they sell well, the other 5 I am at a bit of a loss why, but think it would be good to share so will add it to my list of future video ideas. Regarding ones that don't sell, 80 out of the 400 photos I have uploaded to Shutterstock have never made a single sale. I don't think leaving the bad ones up hurt my sales but don't really know for sure. Cheers.
I just posted a video that includes my best 5 photos on shutterstock and why I think they are successful, here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/WxkWxxDHQVI/v-deo.html
Hope it helps.
very helpful tips! quality of keywords over quantity! thanks!
Hi, can you help me with these:
1. any bulk upscaler or resizer tool ?
2. any bulk image generator tool?
3. any bulk image seo tool ?
4. bulk image uploader tool?
And when i say 'tool', it means software.
I have scanned 5000+ 4 X 6 prints that are 25+ years old with many in immaculate condition and a few that have faded to a brown overcast. Do the stock agencies allow uploads of the same photo such as 1) uploading the brown overcast fading original as a retro photo and then 2) converting that same photo to a black and white and then upload? I would have different keywords for both photos based on your tips in this video but would the stock agencies allow duplicate photos with different edits?
Hey, Please Upload Another video related to shutterstock Image Error !
I love this video, thank you very much, so many tips and good information.
Thank you, very insightful.
Thumbs up! Gr8 job, learnt too much in just 20min
tks man!!!
THE BEST!
Thank you for making this video.... it may very helpful for me in this stock market place
Really interesting perspective. Thanks for the advice.
hi Sir, could you let me know the keywords can be included space or not? and could I need the # before the keywords? Thanks you.
THANK YOU!
Good video, btw how about vector files?
Very helpful, thanks!
Great video. But how have the keywords to look? Like (no person) in one or (no) (person) seperated?
I think (No Person) together is better but I have no proof of this :)
Thanks James good inside tips. Q: Is only Title important for the google search or also the Description?
Both are used by Google but the title is much more important for most stock sites because they put it on more places.
Thanks !!
Im from indonesia, thanks 🙂
So at this point shouls I delete a re upload with thr new streamed down keywords? So the images that dont sell get new exposure under new guidelines?
thanks
I started uploading to Shutterstock after seeing your video, with photos I have on other sites. It is a mix of geographical locations. I mainly shoot in Spain now,- should I, in your opinion and to increase sales, limit my upload to Spanish shots and create a different account for other content? Maybe a tutorial some day on this topic?Thanks in advance! ;-)
No. I wouldn't recommend that. As you make more sales on Shutterstock they will increase you pay per photo so you don't want to split the sales across multiple accounts. Hope it helps.
@@Photerloo THanks a lot again,- did nor know that...
outstanding tips!
Do you encourage having a niche or two for specializing?
I don't think a niche or two is as important for stock as it is for social. Stock photos are normally found via the search, not someone following you. However, if you do have a niche and get very good at one type of photography you are more likely to have amazing photos that get sales, hope it helps.
James, with the long tail keywords, does it matter if it’s as in your example, two tags “logging” and “industry” or one two-word tag? How does it impact the search?
For that example, Logging and industry were two different keywords. Typically if the keywords can be combined in a number of ways I keep them separate. However, if the keywords need to be together to get the correct meaning then I will put them together. For example, my province in Canada is "British Columbia", I often put those in the same keyword because "British" and "Columbia" have different meanings when separated. However, I haven't seen anything in my sales that point toward one way being better than the other. Hope this helps.
Thanks! I’m using Photerloo free beta and I can’t add double worded tags, because when you press space the tag gets added. Any workaround?
Yes, we have this on our list of things to fix, in the mean time. If you enter double keywords in your photo editing software before uploading to Photerloo it will keep them as separate words. We plan to add the ability to add multi-word keywords to Photerloo in the future.
@@Photerloo any update on this ? Seems like a basic requirement to me
I am not a professional but I want to do this
Thanks for your video. Photerloo is not free anymore, you can only upload 5 photos per week for free. Do you know a free app? Thanks.
What methods use this Agencies to pay you.? Direct deposit? Send a check? Thanks!!
photerloo has limited weekly free upload now? :(
Ps you need to open an incognito tab or window to see an accurate search result, rather than algorithm feeding you what it thinks you want 🤗
PPS. Gosh, I hope that's come across as helpful and not critical, as I thoroughly enjoy your videos! 🤗
Thanks, you are right, I definitely should have done the video in Incognito, will try to remember next time :). I just did a quick test and the results were similar so I don't think it skewed the search results to much. Thanks for the advice.
Can i upload same image in two different stock websites???
Yes you can.
Keword button is misspelled :)
So should I be adding keywords in description also?
Yes
@@Photerloo thanks for the reply 🙂
How many photos did you upload before you got a grip on how to get them sold?
Hard to say but probably the first 100 photos I was just guessing and trying different things. After 100 photos and a couple of months, I started to see patterns in which photos were selling and which ones weren't.
That being said, I have been uploading for 7 years and the sites, algorithms, and techniques change so much, I feel like I am always still learning.
@@Photerloo But you were already fairly good at photography in itself before you started uploading, right?
@@rastykatze I bought my first DSLR (a Nikon D5000) in December of 2009 and started to actively learn photography. So, I had been learning photography for almost 3 years before I started posting the photos to stock.
So, I wasn't posting my first photos to the stock sites but I wasn't an expert before I started and have learned a lot since then.
@@Photerloo Okay, nice. Is it possible to get a "low ranked" picture to do well eventualy? I didn't really use the potential I have with marketing my pictures on other platforms online, so I am incoorporating this right now as well as beginning to post some more pictures on other stock platforms as well. Would you say focusing on one is better or diversifying on different pages?
@@kerbslukas6195 Yes, it is possible but the photo needs to be more marketable than the existing photos, by more marketable I mean, more preferred by the buyers than the existing photos. It isn't enough to just have better photos because "better" is very subjective. Personally, most of my best sellers aren't what I consider my best photos, but that's life.
If you are just starting out in stock and have a lot of images already, I would first upload them to Shutterstock, then move on to Adobe Stock. If you are seeing some sales from those sites then invest the time to upload to some of the other sites. Hope this helps.
keywords are killing me! (so is my slow slow internet connection)
yeaah
This guy drives me nuts =_=
20 minutes too long just for 5 tips😊
Thank you for the information 😊
Thanks for this, very helpful tips!