Photos "on sale" but still not showing on site

[Simon Shepheard]

Hi again Alamy contributors,

 

Many thanks for the replies to my previous post but I still can't find my photos on the site.

 

I submitted my initial three first submission photos with captions and keywords over a week ago and they are showing as 'on sale' on my dashboard.

If I click on the relevant box on the dashboard then it does show me the photos I uploaded.

 

However, when I search the Alamy site using the main keywords I added to the images and select 'newest' on the results page there is still no sign of my photos.

For example, searching for 'charging electric car uk' and selecting 'newest' does not find the photo I submitted of charging an electric car.

 

I may be missing something here so any help would be very welcome, as I am concerned that if I can't find my photos in a search then I am not sure if anyone else can either.

 

Best wishes,

 

Simon.

 

 

[NYCat]

Just poking around with the "newest" and "relevant" choices I am getting lots and lots of similar pics by the same photographer when I choose "newest". I kind of suspect that almost all searchers use "relevant" and it seems the most useful. There are 42 pages of that subject so coming up early in the search is likely not going to happen for a new contributor. My pics that have had sales show up on the first page but some of my subjects get buried a bit.

 

Paulette

[VbFolly]

The "newest" filter orders the images by date taken not date uploaded. Using your search of 'charging electric car uk' and the 'newest' filter, I can see your image on page 6. This is because it's a fairly common subject, and your photo is over a year old.

[Simon Shepheard]

Hi again folks,

 

Ok, I was indeed missing something fairly obvious so I am happy to find that I can now answer my own question...

 

The 'newest' selection for the search results shows the photos based on the date taken, not on the date submitted, which makes sense...unless you are being a bit stupid like me...

 

The photos I was looking for were taken a while back so they are indeed showing up in a 'newest' search, but they are quite well down in the results as all the photos taken after mine are listed above them.

 

Anyway, many thanks for the replies on this,

 

Best wishes to all,

 

Simon.

[Simon Shepheard]

Thanks VbFolly,

 

I had just worked that out too and your reply came just as I was writing my last post...It seems obvious to me now but it took me a while to work it out...

 

Best wishes,

 

Simon.

[Harry Harrison]

1 hour ago, Simon Shepheard said:

The 'newest' selection for the search results shows the photos based on the date taken, not on the date submitted, which makes sense...unless you are being a bit stupid like me...

Not stupid at all, until quite recently 'Newest' did mean by 'Date uploaded'. It changed without notice and led to a number of complaints on here but it seems that Alamy will be leaving it like this. Mark Chapman gave a workaround, a modification to the URL, so that it reverts to 'Date uploaded' and you can therefore bookmark that. Buyers though will always see it sorted by 'Date taken' when they switch to 'Newest', if they remember to do so. At the same time 'Relevant' (the default) seems to have been changed to something much more random.

 

https://discussion.alamy.com/topic/17600-image-order-in-portfolio-randomly-re-organised/page/2/

 

Edited August 4 by Harry Harrison