Author Topic: Top 10 of the most searched for keywords (Read 10956 times)

fotorob · « **on:** April 29, 2009, 02:28 »

Hello,

I combined the data of seven different stock agencies to put together a list of the All Time Top 10 Stock Photography keywords.
Guess what is No. 1? (Hint: No, it's not "Business"

)

Have fun reading and using:
http://tinyurl.com/djzx9x

It's an automatic translation from German, whoever prefers the original, it's here:
http://tinyurl.com/dy7fk3

Bye,
Robert

designalldone · « **Reply #1 on:** April 29, 2009, 02:51 »

Thanks for the link, interesting to know.

fotografer · « **Reply #2 on:** April 29, 2009, 03:25 »

Thanks for sharing, very interesting. At least I know that I am photographing the right things

peep · « **Reply #3 on:** April 29, 2009, 03:57 »

FLOWERS??? I would like to know why they are (supposedly) rejected so much! I cannot speak from my own experience - almost all my flower shots have been accepted and have been selling reasonably well. But a lot of people keep complaining about flower-rejections.

fotorob · « **Reply #4 on:** April 29, 2009, 04:54 »

@peep:

Flowers are very popular with photo buyers, but even much more popular with amateur photographers who take a new camera out of the box and run to their garden or balcony to test it out. That might be the reason why flowers get rejected a lot. I know from some agencies that they have the policy: "We don't want your flower shots, but if you have incredribly good ones, we will take them anyway"...

travelstock · « **Reply #5 on:** April 29, 2009, 09:25 »

I'm not sure how valid these conclusions are outside Germany - don't think that "Akt" would make the all time top 30 in English speaking countries... or even that people searching for this term are necessarily looking for photos to download.

I wonder how often this term is searched for in conjunction with #3 "woman"

fotorob · « **Reply #6 on:** April 29, 2009, 11:51 »

Sorry Holgs,

I have to disagree:

If you translate "Akt" to its correct english Term "nude", "sex" or "sexy" you will find enough evidence that people DO look for it, for example:
"Erotic" at place 48 at the Shutterstuck TOp 100 (http://submit.shutterstock.com/top100kw.mhtml)
"nude", "sex" and "sexy" highly searched for at Fotolia (http://us.fotolia.com/Info/Tags/Searched)

I DO agree that most of these searched won't led to sales as I mentioned in my article as well...

Bye,
Robert

batman · « **Reply #7 on:** April 29, 2009, 13:19 »

flowers for EU maybe, but sex, nude for US for sure. i 've never seen too many images without the keyword sex or nude, even if the woman has clothes on.
maybe they were old images when the Big 6 sites were desperate for images as a starter. but i gave up looking after keywording on women and shoes to seeing 5 pages on shoes, ie naked shoes with clothed women who are sexy and nude "underneath their clothes". all mostly with nude and sexy in the keyword box. lol.

Phil · « **Reply #8 on:** April 29, 2009, 15:30 »

thanks for this.

I have a couple of flower shots that do very well

, but in context of the number I take it would be less than 0.05% that I submit. If you can name the flower than it seems more likely to get accepted. (although my mum pointed out the number of mistakes I made in naming

on the list of 11-30, near the bottom is 'Akt', any ideas what this is?

Phil

fotorob · « **Reply #9 on:** April 29, 2009, 15:38 »

@ Phil:

The german keyword "Akt" can be best translated to "nude".

As for flower shots: I always ask my mom as well what flowers I took pictures of... :-)

Bye,
Robert

peep · « **Reply #10 on:** April 29, 2009, 17:57 »

Quote from: Phil on April 29, 2009, 15:30

thanks for this.

I have a couple of flower shots that do very well , but in context of the number I take it would be less than 0.05% that I submit. If you can name the flower than it seems more likely to get accepted. (although my mum pointed out the number of mistakes I made in naming

on the list of 11-30, near the bottom is 'Akt', any ideas what this is?

Phil

Very true. I have a lot of flowers I have not uploaded because I have yet to find their correct names. I think it is essential as most of my flowers are macros and not "flower backgrounds".

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