Keywords 101: Tips to sell your stock photos on Shutterstock
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- On stock photography platforms like Shutterstock, keywords play a large role in selling your photos. Are your earnings not where you want them to be? Take a look and see if you're using 50 good quality, searchable keywords for all of your photo and video clips.
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Don’t forget to add keywords like “copy space” or “design asset”, for example ☺️
Great tips I was wondering how to add more keywords. Just started with this. submitted 25 pictures 4 accepted. Another great hobby for an old seniorThanks
Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom! It's amazing how relevant your information is regardless of how the search engines tweek their algorithms or what the industry trends are doing at the moment.
Thank you for the new video! I'm learning more each and every time I watch this channel! I saw some of your work over on Shutter and read the blog:) Very inspiring!
Thanks Chris! :) Glad you enjoy it
Top quality information as ever Nicole. Thank you so much. Your videos are brilliant.
9:03 Thank you this is so helpful especially when I do multiple images of the same area. Thanks Nicole!
Love that Disc Wall - very creative!
Thanks! Didn’t have use for those CDs anymore so I turned them into decor 😊
Thank you for another great video. I add keywords, description, and copyright to the file info of the photo. When I upload photos to SS & other sites it automatically fills this information in, this saves lots of time.
Wishing you a merry Christmas & happy new year.
Oooohhhh! Love your CD decor!!! ♥️
Thank you! 💿 💿 💿
Thought the same and maybe will copy that ;-)
Very helpful tips and website ideas for keywording! Thanks!
Thank you very much Nicole. I am a new contibutor for stock photos from Thailand. English is not easy for me ,especially when I want to find a good keywords for my photos. As a beginner this VDO gave me a very good tips to find a keywords.
Excellent. You answered the question, more specific collection of key words.
Glad it was helpful!
Your videos are so informative...Thank you soo much
Thank you, I’m glad they are helpful 😊
Very helpful tips. Thanks, Nicole.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for sharing your ideas 👍
Camilla & I have sold more on shutterstock since starting on TH-cam must do more keywording great video thanks
That's terrific :)
Hi Nicole, I use the Shutterstock keyword tool for my keywords but now i will try with the tools you shared here (and i will let you know how was it :) ) thanks a lot
I just went back and edited some of the keywords, descriptions and categories on some of my older photos in an effort to improve the odds of getting my photos downloaded more often. Applying keywords and captions is a skill like anything else, so now that I do a better job of figuring out what phrases people use to find photos, I'm hoping that these edits will help improve sales.
Thank you nicole..
Great video and informative Nicole. I use Shutterstock for keywords. Have a wonderful Christmas.
Thank you, Merry Christmas to you as well :)
Informative video. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Great tips and well presented.
glad you enjoyed it!
Once again, an excellent informative video full of useful ideas. Thanks.
What he said ☝️👌
Thank you! :)
Nicole Glass So welcome 👍
I try to answer the who, what, when and where in my captions. I use that info to come up with keywords. Then I look at the suggested keywords and use the appropriate ones. Then I’ll use the “find more keywords” tool. I’ll also search on Shutterstock for a similar image. If I find very little images, sometimes it’s a matter of changing my search string, which has a direct bearing on my caption and keywords. Then I’ll look at the top results to see if I can glean any good keywords or concepts from those images.
very useful , thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much.....
जानकारी के लिए बहुत बहुत धन्यवाद..........
Thanks!
Wonderful
A photo professionnal, talented retoucher, told me I should upload my work... some two years ago.
And it happens that I've never done it, as of now. But the thing came back in my "train of toughts", so l'm starting to consider doing something out of these thousands of images/sequences I now have.
Your work about this particular topic should come as helpful. I'm like too many... good "image maker" (been told several times and former free-lance pro, so...), but wayyyyyy bad at advocating my own skills. But it's never too late to improve... or is it ?
Your work here is of great value, and I'm only one among hundreds to say so. Thank you. 🙏🏽
Also looking at similar photos on Shutterstock and their keywords can be helpful to find additional relevant keywords.
Regine Poirier I do that too, especially from the images that come up first and more closely resemble mine. It can sometimes help with the caption and the categories, too.
Definitely not great during rush hour 😂
Great suggestions for keyword tools. I wouldn't have thought of some of these.
At this point you have so much info that you should probably start doing stock photography yourself 🙃
Thanks! Ram Ram merryKrishna's
mam i am from India i like your method of talking and your blue eyes
Your videos is very helpful,i hope my photos will be sell soon
Thanks! Good luck
Hello Nicole..... Which camera will be best ❤️❤️❤️❤️ to take photo... thank you for your tips 😊
hii thank you for sharing videos
I wish this video had come out a few weeks back when I was putting together my first keyword lists. Still, a good explanation none the less.
There is also a copy function in Shutterstock that allows you to copy your own keyword list to similar photos. If you mention that then apologies.
Yes I mentioned that towards the end :) I use that feature daily.
Thanks one more time !!
Sure thing :)
Nice.. Nicol
Thanks to Rachel Lerch I have discovered another keyword option:
MICROSTOCK GROUP KEYWORD TOOL
It's basically the Shutterstock tool but covers keywords for all stock sites. Looks a lot easier to navigate than that Lightroom tool you showed.
I'm a big Wikipedia user too especially when it comes to editorial.
Hi Brett, yes this is also one of the tools I included in my description. It’s a good one :)
Nice
Thanks
My picture and illustration are not sell on Shutterstock can you tell me what reason.
Does the order of keywords matter in shutterstock?
where would I go on Shutterstock to find pictures like ones I have, to find keywords?
Please make video how to make the payment account on Shutterstock.
Thank you Nicole. What about description and title? Have you some information about it? For non-native (english) constributor always a trouble maker😅🙏🏽
I talk about descriptions in a few other videos but basically, you want to make sure you write long descriptive captions. I know it's hard when English is not your first language but sometimes looking at Wikipedia will give you some information that can help you write a sentence.
If i already put "wooden" and "boat" in keywords, is it necessary to put "wooden boat" again in keywords ?. Another example of the road name " Sheikh Zayed Road", If I put the complete name, then is it necessary to put "Sheikh, Zayed, Road " one by one? thanks
I know this was about keywording but how do you think if any does Metadata on the photo help?
The rest of the metadata is removed, so as far as I can tell, it has no effect
Hi Nicole, I asked this before, on your other keywording video and I thought it might be relevant here too. If you use a long title, you will be using many of the keywords you might use again in your available 50 keywords. Is it necessary to repeat them in the keywords, thus saving you some words. I know you don't know how the algorithm works, but I thought it might be something for us all to consider.
Tony Woodhouse I repeat them. If you end up with more than 50 keywords, then take out the less important repeated keywords because they will be still be used in a search.
Hello Nicole, one question: do you copyright your photos on lightroom when you put them on Shutterstock, or you just copyright the one that you use on your site or portfolio?
I always edit my photos in Lightroom before I upload them to Shutterstock
@@NicoleGlass sorry to bother you, i would like to know if you copyright the photos that you upload on Shutterstock
Nicole, in one of your previous keywording videos you showed how you can see what keywords people searched for to find and buy your photos. Where do you find that info in Shutterstock? I can't seem to see the search keywords for any of my purchased photos.
At the very bottom of your contributor panel it will say "top performers". Click on "view top performers" and you'll see the keyword search terms there. Or you can go into your catalogue manager, click on a set and "view set stats".
@@NicoleGlass Thanks Nicole. I wonder if this is a feature that is activated once a certain amount of photos are sold. I don't see the search terms in either of those locations. I've only sold 4 photos so maybe it is too soon.
@@MarianPierreLouis Ah yes. 4 photos is not a lot to analyze. Perhaps those 4 photos were found in a different way, like under "similar images" underneath different photos. Thus, no keyword info.
I have a question... Do photos move (in relation of page they appear on) with number of clicks they get? I don't mean sales, simply with how many people look at them. I noticed some of my and other people's pictures appearing on the first or second page of search results, despite being uploaded like 2 days ago and having zero sales so far. I am searching only by location's name and am getting close to 4 000 results.
I'm actually not sure about that. Downloads definitely brings them higher into the search results but not sure if clicks have an impact.
Hello Nicole,
Since we are approaching end of business year....could you do a summary history of your income/photo-download/stock photo company.
Feel free, I would understand your hesitation/objection 😀
Joyeux Noël, Nicole 🎄🇨🇦✌
here's a few ideas for how to get paid for photos
Use you social media accounts to market
Get your own blog
Join a suitable course or site for marketing photos
(I read these and the reasons they work on Hartlyn Photo Pro website )
I am curious Nicole, have you ever figured out the amount of time you spend on stock photography in relation to what you earn with it? I would like to know the revenue to time spent ratio. I suppose your TH-cam income would apply to that as stock photography is your channel focus. I am not trying to be nosey and ask what you make but more along the lines of I traded this many hours of my time in total for this amount of money over the course of a year and that equates to x amount of dollars per hour. You have probably never kept track of this but maybe that's a good experiment for the coming year. Just to keep track of things for a year. Time spent vs. dollars earned.
Hi Robbie, yeah I actually did make the calculation once. For photos it’s about $75/hour and video is higher. But this differs depending on how efficient and fast someone is with keywording and such, as well as the type of photos they upload. (Not counting YT revenue here). What’s your rate?
@@NicoleGlass I would happily give you my rate but I have never done anything with stock photography. I have been considering starting into stock but I worry about spending a ton of time for little return. I have shot wildlife/nature and concerts for ages. Tough to make money with either. I have been learning portrait photography and lighting because I thought it may be a way to increase my income but stock is always at the back of my mind. I'm subbed to your channel because of your focus on it.
@@NicoleGlass wow! That is good and motivating to know ;-) does this include also the time you need for shooting and editing or only for uploading/keywording?
I live in Southern California, so we don’t have four seasons. Photos I take in the winter often look like I took them in the summer. SS often suggests “summer” for my landscapes, even though I took them in other seasons. Should I keyword the image as “summer” or should I keyword it as the actual season that I took it in? Also, if I have to submit the landscape as editorial because there’s a visible logo on a building and I took the landscape in February, should I use the keyword, “winter” or “summer,” or both? Believe me, the sky and sea are as blue as can be. This particular image looks like summer.
That's a good question and not sure I have the answer for it. Maybe you could experiment with that and see what works better. For commercial photos, perhaps try using the season that most accurately reflects what the image looks like. For editorial, accuracy is probably better. But again, take this with a grain of salt: I have not researched this.
Nicole Glass You’re lucky that you live in a place with four seasons. Here in SoCal, it almost always looks like summer in photos. Lol!
I’ll try your suggestion. Thnx!
@@dazzlingdeb8427 Really? I'm so jealous of your weather! Haha
Nicole Glass 😃
I use "notes" as a base for keywords. put the title,description,and comma delimited or separated keywords together and apply to different sites with a copy and paste for each picture. If I want to steal a few words for another picture I have some ready, start a new description and title and keywords...Just make sure you keep the notes on the desktop or in a file for reference later.
When I search my images in shutterstock, the keyword in my images are arranged in alphabetical order , I don't know how to fix it
Shutterstock does that automatically
I found that some others keywords are not arranged in order, that's why their picture are in front pg
Hello Nicole thanks for sharing your great video . Just a small favor
please speak a bit slowly because I am sicilian. Thanks in advance and maybe there are other foreigner follower like me :)
Moot point for keywords on Shutterstock, they've been rejecting my keywords, which I believe are creative and strategic. They are forcing me to dumb them down to being very generic, like: graphic, design, art, holiday....so on and so forth. Generic is fine to a point, but to fill up the complete 50, one has to think outside the box, and they are not allowing me to do so.
Off The Realm That is strange. And all your keywords are related to your content right? I’ve actually never had rejections based on my keywords so I’m not sure why you’re getting them.
@@NicoleGlass Yes, I'd like to think so. It was a photograph of a painting on canvas I did honoring Black History Month. I used keywords that would be associated with a search on the subject such as famous key figures of civil rights and black history: George Washington Carver, Martin Luther King, Jr., also emancipation proclamation, ending of slavery, equal rights... Interestingly, it hasn't been accepted yet, my newest rendition of keywords are completely dumbed down and generic, and only about 30. Which is very disappointing due to the work put into the painting, and killing my creative keyword strategy...I really thought I was knocking it out of the park!!!
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Thank you so much! Merry Christmas :)
well, now that Shutterstock is dead we'll see if they work elsewhere