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I can see where the Twitter section is, and have authenticated.
Would someone mind explaining how you use it in practice? When you upload some new images, do you then select some of them in the batch editor and create a daily tweet, or do you tweet each time you publish them.
Just trying to understand how best to use this feature.
Thanks
steve
I’ve just completed the poll, and am in the 1-5 category as a photographer. At some stage it would be interesting to see how photographers do compared to illustrators. I’ve often wondered if it is easy to just take a photo from an existing site and reuse it and hence fewer people are looking to buy photos from our sites. An illustration, in a vector format, can be copied in its visible shape, but to get the real benefit, you need to buy the original (at least that is my understanding)
Steve
Thanks Christine.
My site is working fine at the earlier release so I may stay there for a couple of weeks yet. Is there a page somewhere (and I’ll start looking now) that lists the changes that were introduced in each release? If I answer my own question by research I’ll come back and update this!
Steve
Yes, of course you can link or use it on Facebook or any other site. No problem.
Good point about the comparison – lets just think of another interesting slant for Amos to use on his site.
I’m not against the exclusive search – I have taken a slightly different tack though – I only put editorial and my more complex images on my Symbio site and Alamy. So not exactly exclusive, but definitely not on the micro sites.
Steve
While we are on the holiday theme, here is my “waiting for santa” cat image that I always think has a nice feel to it!
Steve
http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/image/lonesome-bengal-cat-in-front-of-christmas-tree/Had you anything in mind. I have some Australia pictures that I haven’t uploaded yet.
Steve
Hi Kenny
I think the only people finding your site are the ones making spam registrations! Most people have the Anti-Captcha plug in installed – this invisibly stops the sort of spam registration you are seeing.
I would delete all the users you have so far – they are almost certainly useless.
As for hiding it – I think you could rename the index file in the main WP directory for a while, but I would just leave it running – Google will slowly index it and people will then very slowly find it.
Steve
Hi Juliet
Your site works fine for me tonight. I think that the database updates (to create the similar images tables) does take up quite a bit of the processing of the site when you are adding many images. Also, I used to find that my site was often throttled (by Bluehost) in the mornings and so was slow then.
If you let it finish its updating, then everything should get back to normal again
Steve
Steve Heap has been an active stock photographer since 2008 and likes to cover a broad range of photos – extensive travel images plus many isolated objects and concepts, beautiful cats and sometimes you can find something out of the ordinary!
http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/image/senior-man-holding-help-me-paperwork-in-water/?r=www.backyardstockphotos.comSteve
Yes, the only reason I left it there was to give a tiny explanation about how/why this works. I’ve got no problem with deleting the WordPress thing and perhaps putting “who all use a common design…” instead.
Steve
Here is a shorter version – more aimed at buyers, but with a para about becoming a contributor:
Symbiostock – What is Symbiostock?
Symbiostock is a network of illustrators and photographers who all use a common WordPress theme to create unique individual sites that are also fully networked together so that you can see images or designs that meet your needs from any of our talented and fully interconnected artists.
Buying directly from the artist
Our prices are competitive because there’s no middleman; you’re buying directly from the artist. Think of it as “fair trade” stock images. There are no subscriptions or credits to purchase, you pay only for the images you need at the size you require. With one click of the search button, you’ll find not only images created by that particular artist, but also by other independent artists who’ve chosen to link to that site.
Symbiostock offers images for all your projects, blogs, ad campaigns, season greeting cards, etc. You want it, we have it. Looking for editorial images? Got it. Exclusivity? Check. Illustrations? Right here.
Selling your work
Symbiostock is the easy-to-use, fair royalty network of photographers, vector artists and illustrators that offers you the chance to sell directly to buyers and receive 100% of the sale. It also offers you tremendous marketing power by allowing you to link your site to other artists, building on each other’s marketing efforts and increasing exposure to your work. Buyers can search multiple portfolios with just one click and pay with credit card, debit card and bank transfer using the PayPal payment processor that comes free with Symbiostock.
With Symbiostock, there are no levels to reach. No surprise price reductions. No approval process. No waiting period to sell images or get access to your earnings. You decide how much to charge. You decide which images to sell. You connect directly with buyers, building your own contact list and your own brand. You are in control because you create, customize and manage your own independent web store.Search the entire network of images
Just go to Symbiostock.info and enter your search terms there – you will instantly search across all 170,000 images in the network and be linked straight to the artist that can meet your needs.
Steve
This is aimed at attracting new contributors – are we looking for edits that make it more appropriate for buyers?
Steve
any ideas for initial topics?
One starting point (besides the ones setting the scene) would be to cover the wide range of themes and subjects that we all cover. You could do several on different sorts of illustration, then in photography we have people, isolated objects, travel, animals etc. That would get the message across about the wide range of imagery available
Steve
I would have thought it difficult (and a bit timeconsuming) to gather images and ideas around a topic for the daily posts. Do you think we could create a calendar of people who are willing to post and they do a post on their day. If we have 30 contributors, for instance, I could always post on the 1st of each month and write a short piece about a new image and how/why I took it.
Steve
