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Originally Posted by dbvirago
I also don't agree with the ranking notion that if someone does a search and your image comes up but the buyer doesn't click on it, that there is something wrong with the image or the keywords, so you should be further down in the search. You are not only punished for people that are just browsing, but if the image just isn't what the buyer is looking for, that doesn't make it wrong or that you have incorrectly keyworded.
The sales are nice though.
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Don't be too concerned with the rank thing, if you look at your Alamy measures for any given image you'll probably see that most of your images come under 'view numbers' that end in odd digits i.e. 3644 etc, that means the potential buyer has see a number of pages containing all the images that come up under that keyword, if the number end's in 100's it means they only viewed a few pages as Alamy results are in pages of 100's. Buyers on Alamy tend to view the majority of search results when they're thinking of buying and a lot will add an image to a lightbox during a search, then after they've narrowed their selection down they'll go into their lightbox and zoom on the one's they like the best.
So in essence your ranking result may get your images on the first few pages but most serious buyers will see them no matter where they are, unless of course they've just searched the word 'landscape' !!!
Steve was right in what he said about only previous buyers zooms working, it actually only shows up for people who have opened a 'buyers account' and have previously purchased through this account, one off buyers who pay by credit card won't show up in your zoom results.