I've been wondering if featurepics, like some of the microstock websites, has google to index photos for sale on google images, since thats a good way IMO of advertising our photos.

Dave, do you mean Google Base?
Yes, we update our xml file for Google Base on daily basis.
I didn't revised it for a while. Thank you for the reminder.
I will double check it after this weekend coming release.

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^ I meant google images, google's image search engine.

http://images.google.com/images?as_q...s.com&safe=off

^ Imagine if everyone's photos are indexed via google images. Many of my photos that I have uploaded to other microstock websites are already indexed through google images.

Google has their own schedule and rules to list pages and images.

We know GoogleBot has checked ALL pages and images (we keep track of all visits in our database).

Last week they reindexed all pages and now we have 37,300 listed pages (we had only ~700 pages before).

Number of images has not been changed since Feb, I think.

It is a matter of time and popularity index.

We had 31,000 images listed by www.live.com. We lost ~17,000 when we changed old thumbs to new ones (with a bigger watermark), but ~13,000 are still alive.

We are working to increase these numbers.

Thank you!

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