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I use it on the search pages, where the widget works well. I never managed to work out to how use it on the product pages (although I didn’t spend much time researching it either). I’m using the Express theme. We could do with Dawn to chip in on how it can work there.
Looks great – I like the silver grey look! I don’t think you have the links correct in the rotating category slider on the home page. All of them head back to the home page again – they are missing the category in the URL.
Steve
Nice article. I built it in to a blog post I did this morning about the advantages of having your own site with Symzio:
http://www.backyardsilver.com/2016/01/the-advantages-of-your-own-stock-photo-site/
Steve
I’ve got some:
http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/?s=canada
They are editorial and so I wasn’t able to put them on Symzio because they are RM on other sites
Steve
Just wrote a blog post about the way Symzio.com has got to the top of the search results:
http://www.backyardsilver.com/2016/01/symzio-gaining-status-on-google-image-search/
I searched for “lonesome bengal cat” – which does bring up quite a few of my images normally on all sorts of stock agencies, but what is interesting this time is that Symzio.com comes up with 8 hits in the first 40 images – 20% if my math is correct! That is pretty remarkable. 123RF always seems to do well – no idea what their secret is, but I rarely get sales from them!
Steve
Added a short post about the blog and the article about 5 tips:
http://www.backyardsilver.com/2016/01/new-blog-for-stock-photographers/
Hi Andre – your little graphics of Independent Network are not displaying when I go to the blog.
Nice explanation about “editorial” although I’m not sure you are right about not using an editorial image on the front cover of a magazine. News magazines often have unflattering product or people photos on their front cover if they are reporting that product or person. The idea of “commercial” does not mean that you are planning to make money by selling your magazine – it is a commercial use if you are implying that the product supports your intent to sell your magazine. So a photo of a coca cola bottle on the front cover of a magazine announcing an article about the dangers of sugar in soft drinks would be editorial usage.
I upload all sorts of ratios – I usually crop to what is best for the image rather than a predetermined size. No issues so far in doing that as far as I can see.
On the editorial one – that is critical to provide a bit of protection for the agency and ourselves although as you say, the user is ultimately responsible. To put your images into Symzio, you do need to mark that editorial flag if you don’t have model and/or property releases (and the image needs them). On your own site, it doesn’t matter as much, but better to be safe I think.
There is a long thread somewhere else on this forum about editorial usage.
Steve
You can set your own license sizes in the admin section as you create/define the license. There is a setting in there for the size of download for that particular license/price. You can set as many as you want, but obviously don’t want it to get too complicated. I went for 3 plus an extended license.
I can’t recall now where this was explained in the documentation, sorry!
Symbiostock automatically supplies the right size download depending on what someone has bought.
Steve
For some reason it didn’t on mine. It looks as though I had the right settings, but the source of each page simply said Title – Backyard Stock Photos. After doing that force rewrite, all of them have the correct title, but, naturally, Google Images still shows Backyard Stock Photos. I’m sure over time it will catch up.
Just an update on these sales (good and bad news). The person who bought them was the same person (I think she is making a college year book) that licensed one of my images in December at the Extended price. Good news that she really likes the ease with which she can search and buy images, bad news is that it is not a brand new customer who has found us!
I recalled this in an earlier post from Redneck. For some reason I have two media sections as you can see above so I changed both to this and then checked force rewrite titles in the General Tab. I’m sure that will take some time, but I’ll see what happens.
Sure.
WP Admin Panel
SEO – Titles & Metas – Post TypesPosts- Title template: %%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
Meta Description Template: %%excerpt%%
Meta Keywords Template: %%tag%%Same for “Pages”.
Media
Title template: %%title%% %%page%%
Meta description template: %%excerpt%%
Meta keywords template: %%tag%%Interesting – when I look at my site, the descriptions are generally OK, but the title is always “Backyard Stock Photos.”.
In Yoast, I have my Titles and Meta set up like this:
Is this right, and is there some other setting to force a rewriting of these settings across the product pages?
Steve
