Taxonomy of keywords question

[WendyParticipant]

Just a general question.
I have been keywording and doing the categories on my images.

Is it better to put in singular AND plurals of words and also phrases?

How may categories do people put their images in?

[cascolyBlocked]

I don’t use plurals for agencies but I do for my sym site where appropriate

I use 2 or 3 categories at most — for a rock texture, geological detail, etc, I may not put it in say Zion National park but would just add it to textures

http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=42 shows how many categories each site has, and average number of images per category

[WendyParticipant]

Thanks Steve, that is the sort of thing I have been doing, I was hoping I was on the right track 🙂

[JoAnnSnoverParticipant]

Regarding phrases, I typically use them to avoid spam that you’d get if you made the keywords individual words.

For example, with this image I used the phrases Codz Poop and Palace of the Masks as well as the word masks. If i were searching for just palace, I wouldn’t want to see this, but just masks would be OK. Likewise, I can’t put poop as a single keyword (think pooh in UK English versus US English).

Similarly, there’s no apache in this image, so I used apache trail as a phrase, but also trail individually in case someone doesn’t care which trail.

I try to balance covering all the buyer search possibilities with keeping thing spam free, and generally try to remember plurals where appropriate

[WendyParticipant]

Thanks JoAnn, that is kind of the way I have been thinking, I struggle with keywords a lot of the time though …

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