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You’re welcome and it is nice to see inspired people! I need to find time for my site 🙂 I had to go across town today and packed the boot with photographic equipment and a tablet and then by mid afternoon said oh bugger! The urge to beat peak hour traffic back home won LOL! Didn’t take a picture!
Jo
Now you’re famous 😀
Jo
@peresanz wrote:
I launched and announced my site last week and have been looking for matching portfolios since. My main subjects are landscape, travel, architecture and astronomy. I’ve seen lots of wonderful sites strong on some of these categories but they appear to have their network completed without free slots. I could have linked to these sites but of course I would like to be linked too, that’s the game, right? It appears that during the first bump of new sites, in the early times of symbiostock, they where growing strongly at a constant ratio and everybody built up their network mainly linking one to each other in such a way that new sites created recently may have a hard time in finding sites to exchange links with.
I have not checked ALL the sites so if anyone finds that his portfolio would make a good complement with mine, please let me know.
Welcome to SymbioStock and you have some beautiful photographs!
Jo
@shazamimages wrote:
It would be great if someone could figure out how to increase the network from 10 to 15 or 20. Then Leo could add the changes into a future update.
I third that! Or is it fourth it? I think this is a good idea.
Jo
This is damn and bloody interesting LOL! Are bad words really bad though? Maybe they are just misunderstood as a child hehehe
Jo
Edited to test Dàmn 😀
This is no surprise. Facebook is a company that has sold “nothing for something” and made billions. It makes millions by selling advertising that doesn’t really work for the most part, but the numbers look good on paper so they sell well to new investors.
The world outside the US and UK now make up a huge part of the Internet. People are making a very silly assumption that clicks outside of the western world are useless. He has a point about the click farms though. I would go so far as to say that Facebook outsources to those very click farms.
Jo
I was thinking the same thing. I understood it was a once of fee for setup and then royalties there after.
Jo
It’s odd but sadly not unusual. It could be that the IP address in general was blocked. I can find all the links to your site on Google but they don’t load.
Now if I use http://hidemyass.com/ to mask my IP it loads LOL! Don’t worry about it. I should have tried masking the IP first 🙂
Jo
Edit: Site looks great!
I just tried it again now but it is still a dead page on my end. I’m in South Africa.
It’s not unusual to have sites blocked form certain countries. It’s stupid but there you have it. I just thought I would let you know it won’t load at all in any browser here.
I also tried testing it on an android tablet but even the cached version from google is just a basic text menu on the side.
Jo
@leo wrote:
“You people…?” 😯
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzUc3Eqzzos
( Please watch that youtube video its funny )
“That Anger Management video is not available in your Country!”
It’s made me people very angry! 😀
Jo
@chromaco wrote:
No doubt my subject matter helps. There is also a lot of really bad imagery out there. So at least for me (assuming mine is better) getting into the battle is very important. Also you can’t just option click a vector file. This is one of the main reasons that illustrators are having more success. In your case it might be professional buyers who are most likely to buy your images. This puts you in direct competition with the micros and this is much, much harder. That is why it is even more important that the symbiostock network starts getting an almost flawless reputation. Leo is diligently working on the bugs and polishing the product and Michelle is doing a great job with the Social Networking. I think we as a collective are completely blowing it on MSG because we can’t stop arguing about ridiculous little issues and get pulled into stupid arguments with people who have no idea what Symbiostock really is about. We as site owners can do our part by avoiding the negativity that so easily creeps out and when we do get a sale make sure that the customer experience is top notch. If we start doing these things right the buyers will start to show up. Maybe two years from now these types of conversations will be so obsolete they don’t even exist any more.
Thank you very much for your thread. I’ve been busy and largely away from SymbioStock for the last few months. I have personally found similar results to what you write about, but I’m still wrapping my head around the idea of the thumbnail. It seems like a good idea to me. One more thing on my back burner LOL!
On the 4th page of this thread I have little to offer but what has already been said. I will, however, say that it is not all just about photography/Artwork or SEO. It is about both and in proper ratios. Without one of them, neither is very effective with regards to the subject at hand. Artwork needs no SEO to be great but business does.
It really doesn’t matter how good your work is if no one sees it. Brand yourself and do it to the best of your ability and knowledge. Then go back to work and produce content. Sleepless nights about SEO is pointless. Sleepless nights DOING SEO is sometimes a good thing LOL!
Set yourself up for success and then expect it. If you are expecting strife and competition (with iAgencies) then that is what you will get. See this as a long-term project. You are branding and presenting YOURSELF and your talents to the world. It takes time and no amount of SEO will change that overnight. A little patience is called for at this time.
Jo
@leo wrote:
@cascoly wrote:
@artesiawells wrote:
(beer has a respectable 877)
Actually incorporating “beer” into promotion might actually help immensely. Open source is really “free beer” to many, but I think we could be a little less metaphorical…
Or alternatively, what would it cost to give them free beer? I’ll give them my share as I don’t like beer 😀
Jo
Thanks Chromaco!
I agree with what you have said. No one wants hundreds of dead or abandoned sites on SymbioStock. I am with you on making it a little more personal. If you have more than one site or interest, link them all together! I am finding that Google likes lots of links linking back and forward that create a network.
I’m also finding that by linking my sites together, people who are interested in my photography (and that has been on the backburner for months now) may find an interest in my writing and books.
Sometimes the links can be as subtle as an extra button on the menu, but while it is not in your face, search engines pick up on the network and your branding.
I would add that you need some sort of branding, whether it is your real name, a nickname or even a company name. Brand yourself so you don’t have a generic 123mysite321 name. No one likes to talk to a number 🙂
Jo
Hi Rixie and welcome!
Let us have your site’s link when you are ready 🙂
Jo
So you have a sweet, toothy monster then? LOL! He is very cute though! Grab lots of photos before he gets larger and really pounces 🙂
Jo
