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@cascoly wrote:
to that point, I think it would be wise to fill all networking slots – you don’t necessarily need reciprocal links for all slots; having all slots filled gives a greater chance of exposure for everyone. later you can refine your connections.
same for promoted keywords, http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=31
focus & specialty http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=65lots of blanks on those reports! all those blanks are SEO opportunities
I’m wondering why a click on my site (picturebreeze.com) in the table on your page http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=65 directs me to a 404 error page: http://cascoly.com/404error.htm . Have I set something up wrong?
@jan +1 what is FAA? (googled the same)
on topic:
anyway, we are seen wordwide; look at this from wordpress-stats for my (still small) site:
FAA – I wondered about that for ages as well – Fine Art America – they sell prints and things. For the UK photo4me.com do a similar thing
http://kerioakimaging.com - trying to reopen
http://nail-art-at.kerioak.com - Art and Nail Art@cascoly wrote:
@dp69_2001 wrote:
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I wouldn’t be opposed to throwing a couple dollars into some paid Symbio advertising. I’d be interested to see what ideas the community could come up with. ‘Course, I still need to find a couple sites to network with.google adwords are probably eyond us right now — better to concentrate on our own networking
to that point, I think it would be wise to fill all networking slots – you don’t necessarily need reciprocal links for all slots; having all slots filled gives a greater chance of exposure for everyone. later you can refine your connections.
same for promoted keywords, http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=31
focus & specialty http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=65lots of blanks on those reports! all those blanks are SEO opportunities
It is beyond us individually (especially my small amateur portfolio) but, as a whole I don’t think it is even close. Some sort of “support your artist” or the like campaign. Get the word out for a month or so …
I actually think Google Adwords is NOT the way to go because sooner or later you will compete with big bucks corporations and might be forced to pay more than we make. We should optimize our SEO instead and get good listings without payment.
I’m also a little suspicious that once you start paying for good listings, Google might lose interest to list your site very well without payment later on.What is FAA? Federal Aviation Administration?
I didn’t think about that organization, but who knows, that name may help the other FAA.
My FAA is Fine Art America, and on Google Search they fly pretty high. I don’t know how they do it, but if you google for a specific image, their links come usually up before any stock agency’s links.
Thanks for confirming the trend, Cathy.
I am also seeing this trend, but why?
@redneck wrote:
Is there maybe even a chance that Google did something to ban or re-rank Symbiostock structured sites?
I’m going to look into this quickly for you. Its unlikely, but you never know.
The timeline of this issue seems to match the timeline of this (very significant) change mentioned below:
http://www.seosiren.com/new-google-hummingbird-algorithm/
If I’m not mistaken, isn’t the whole stock image business reporting a slowdown this last month?
Basically it says it ranks rich content and contextual content over simple keyword occurrences. Google’s always been moving in this direction, but this is the FIRST big change of this nature in 12 years.
To make it simple, google is more of a statistics machine than a matching machine. The web is becoming more social, so its seeing broader contexts instead of details.
Edit:
I just realized thats not simple enough —
A picture and a sentence accompanied by 30 thumbnails on a page will have a weaker impact than say a picture with a paragraph and little else on the page.
@redneck wrote:
I’m wondering why a click on my site (picturebreeze.com) in the table on your page http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=65 directs me to a 404 error page: http://cascoly.com/404error.htm . Have I set something up wrong?
thanks for the report — it was a problem in the link I assigned — all were wrong
should be fine now
@leo wrote:
Basically it says it ranks rich content and contextual content over simple keyword occurrences. Google’s always been moving in this direction, but this is the FIRST big change of this nature in 12 years.
To make it simple, google is more of a statistics machine than a matching machine. The web is becoming more social, so its seeing broader contexts instead of details.
Edit:
I just realized thats not simple enough —
A picture and a sentence accompanied by 30 thumbnails on a page will have a weaker impact than say a picture with a paragraph and little else on the page.
my google analytics are flatlined, but my webmaster searches remain the same ….
also, it may be that we’ll eventually benefit when people are searching for images
meanwhile google continues to crawl thru the global keyword list — here are the latest tags it checked:
10/2/2013 18:59 DOWNTURN
10/2/2013 18:57 GEOLOGIC
10/2/2013 18:47 KNIT
10/2/2013 18:34 DOWNTOWN
10/2/2013 18:22 KNIGHTS
10/2/2013 18:10 GENERATE
10/2/2013 18:03 DOWNHILL
10/2/2013 17:51 KNIGHT10/2/2013 17:39 DOORWAY
10/2/2013 17:33 KNIFE
10/2/2013 17:22 DOMESTIC
10/2/2013 17:19 GASOLINE
10/2/2013 17:04 KNEE
10/2/2013 16:47 KNEADING10/2/2013 16:42 DOLLAR
10/2/2013 16:31 GAMBLING
10/2/2013 16:26 KLCC
10/2/2013 16:20 DOCUMENTNot really. I’m not changing anything either.
I’d say just keep doing what you can to keep your content relevant. I’ve seen quite a few ups and downs over the years.
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