capital letter in key words ??

[Hector Christiaen]

hi

in the key words and in the title, the names of cities, countries, it is better to put them with a capital letter or not ??

thanks

[Michael Ventura]

I don’t think it matters.

[John Mitchell]

A search for "Vancouver" brings up 185,451 images, and a search for "vancouver" brings up the same number of images. So I guess it doesn't matter.

 

Don't know if this has always been the case, though. I used to include capital letters in keywords when I first started keywording in the 90's.

[Joseph Clemson]

Proper capitalised words and punctuation in captions does convey a sense of professionalism, which may just tip the balance in your favour if there are multiple near-identical images. It will also help a potential buyer to quickly identify the word they are looking for in your caption, which is not so obvious if the initial letter is lowercase . In keywords capitalisation is less of an issue as the search engine ignores capitalisation and buyers are less likely to scrutinise the list of keywords. However, I make a point of being as correct as possible in both captions and keywords.

[DDoug]

It appears not to matter in keyword searches, but I tend to be somewhat conservative about capitalizing proper nouns. It just seems right.

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