M.Chapman Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Sorry but, what do you mean when you write BHZ? Try searching the forum for BHZ and you'll find lots about it. It used to be a way of trying to discover your Alamy rank (put BHZ as a super tag on just one image). Wait 24 hours, then search for BHZ on Alamy and note where your image appears relative to all the others playing the BHZ game. In recent times the results are all over the place, and Alamy have always said it's not a sensible test, but I have found it useful in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Yates Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Some sort of very weird re-rank has occurred. I have a test image that has moved down the first page of a search but other similar keyworded images of mine have been pulled onto that same page. As far a BHZ is concerned all my BHZ images for all my pseudos were on page 10. An image from my best selling psuedo is now on page one and the rest are spread up to page 10. This change has doubled the views on my main pseudo. What does it all mean? What are ALAMY up to? It's bloody frustrating not knowing what to do next if anything. If this is a journey ALAMY are going on it would be really good to let it's passengers have a clue of where we are going with an update or two along the way. Cheers Craig (one of the passengers) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Something's definitely changed. My BHZ test image has moved down from Page 4 to 6. Now moving all tags from my old "BHZ" image to a new image, to see if the result I got before (Page 1) is repeated. I'll check tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 There's something funny about the current results. Set the bhz to New and have a look at the first three. Note that there's no More underneath the thumbnails. Nor is BHZ in the keywords. wim edit: typo I see bhz in the keywords of all three new "bhz" images. What are the Alamy image refs of the images you're seeing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 There's something funny about the current results. Set the bhz to New and have a look at the first three. Note that there's no More underneath the thumbnails. Nor is BHZ in the keywords. wim edit: typo I see bhz in the keywords of all three new "bhz" images. What are the Alamy image refs of the images you're seeing? J1YK30 J1YF8F J1YERM The third has bhz in the caption now. Makes me question my sanity. However I had not checked it by hand, but I did a page search. And it did not show up. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reimar Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 There's something funny about the current results. Set the bhz to New and have a look at the first three. Note that there's no More underneath the thumbnails. Nor is BHZ in the keywords. wim edit: typo BHZ is in the title for the first and tags for the next two. What do you mean? You are searching only for RM right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 There's something funny about the current results. Set the bhz to New and have a look at the first three. Note that there's no More underneath the thumbnails. Nor is BHZ in the keywords. wim edit: typo BHZ is in the title for the first and tags for the next two. What do you mean? You are searching only for RM right? No I did search for RM+RF New. Yes now it is, but not when I did a page search the first time. Or my page search is/was broken. Some of us did see weird results at some points. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reimar Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Yes, strange things are happening. I'm leaning towards 11-dimensional space and m-theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famousbelgian Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 I've jumped BHZ position from bottom of page 8 to bottom of page 2, almost back to where I was before the December changes Marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 I guess the bhz position is a bit like Schrödinger's Cat. You're "alive aka in the zone" and at the same time you're "dead aka out of the zone". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Morgan Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 In BHZ I'm on pge 4 but I'd rather just check real searches to see how my images are moving about. Jill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Yes, strange things are happening. I'm leaning towards 11-dimensional space and m-theory. Jesus continues to hang onto the #1 position in BHZ search results, so the universe is probably still unfolding as it should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 After my best year, by far, I dropped from page 9 to page 25. There I remain. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colblimp Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 My BHZ image was hovering between pages 25 and 26 for months, I've just checked it now and it's on page 11. Not a massive jump, but positive all the same! This gives me hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotoDogue Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 I had been on page 5 for quite some time (years?) After the last shuffle I was up to page 4 but now I'm on page 3. Not complaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaJ Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 My images have gone up in both BHZ and in some of my other searches. So the latest search engine tweaking is good news for me. Re the title of this thread, were there changes to the image manager (AIM) as well today? Maria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webby Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Just checked and pleased to say both my pseudos have moved from pages 3/4 to half way down first page. Hope sales improve as a result.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Lewis Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Hi All Just had a look interesting images are appearing in searches that have NOTHING to do with the search term used????? also the new mix is strange buyers are going to be confused. This needs tweaking so results are at least what you expect . Regards Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 BHZ supertag p24 tag p21 caption+tag p20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted April 26, 2017 Author Share Posted April 26, 2017 My images have gone up in both BHZ and in some of my other searches. So the latest search engine tweaking is good news for me. Re the title of this thread, were there changes to the image manager (AIM) as well today? Maria This was precisely my point Maria - the changes in BHZ from my POV were in the right direction though not bringing me back to previous status (now on P3 rather than p5 as was recently, but I was on p1 before December). However, more importantly there have been changes in the order of images in the searches within my pseudonym - which lead me to wonder whether Alamy have finally managed to give Supertags a special importance which they haven't really had till now - and may explain why Geoffs' images are now much better placed, as I believe he has been continuing to use the supertags in the correct way - More investigation needs to be done, and also of course it could all get put back again in the next database change later today! Kumar (the Doc one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Lewis Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Hi Doc Im also finding the order of images within pseudonym changed with older images superseding newer ones the older ones haven't been fiddled with i.e. they were keyworded before the new IM. I think its been churned a little too much don't you? Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foreign Export Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 I can see some changes - for the better Still silly portrait shots RF on page 1 of sydney search - but some have also gone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted April 26, 2017 Author Share Posted April 26, 2017 Further to my previous posting, and since the update of the database today, I think Supertags now seem to have been given more importance than they had before. .....Finally. Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 I have tagged and super tagged according to Alamy's instructions from day 1 with AIM. Images from my latest upload on sale today are scattered about on pages 1 & 2. Yet I'm not making many sales this month, turning out to be the worst in ages. I guess my product doesn't stack up. Betty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Something's definitely changed. My BHZ test image has moved down from Page 4 to 6. Now moving all tags from my old "BHZ" image to a new image, to see if the result I got before (Page 1) is repeated. I'll check tomorrow. I swapped all the tags, supertags (incl BHZ), and the caption, and other settings (but NOT the date taken) from my old BHZ image, to a much newer image, and the position of the image with BHZ supertag stays the same. Looks like the age of the image doesn't have much effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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