IDP Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 The following might be of interest. At the end of last week, I asked Alamy about the long delay since the last re-rank. I received an email today saying that this had now been done and results will be visible after tonight's update. Let's hope it was worth the wait! Ian D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Thanks for the info Ian. February could be about to get even worse! Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Has happened. No major change for me - whew!!! Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynne Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Not great for me - My main pseudo has dropped from the top of page 2 to page 7 and the other one has gone up 2 pages. Lynne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnB Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Big drop for me to page 5 - first time outside the first two pages in years. It reflects the last 3 or 4 months of poor sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I've moved from bottom of page six, to near top of page four. No idea how this has happened, I've had poor sales, poor views, and poor zooms.. Terry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Big drop for me to page 5 - first time outside the first two pages in years. It reflects the last 3 or 4 months of poor sales. Ditto but i've dropped from middle of page 2 to top of page 9! Last 6 months of 2013 were horrendous - a total of 12 sales. This year i've already sold 13 in 6 weeks! Hope the lower ranking doesn't affect me too much. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crellin Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Lots of changes on top 5 pages is my unscientific impression but my pseudos both pretty much in place - must be boringly consistent. (The lower one seemed to be in the same company in the middle...) A thought though - the number of BHZ pages hasn't changed for ages but there must be many new photogs on Alamy ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rigger Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Forgive my ignorance - this is probably going to be a "D'oh !!" moment when I get the answer - but how do you tell? How do you find out what your rank is? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Put bhz in the esskeys of one of your RM images. The theory is that your placement in a search on 'bhz' will give you an idea of your rank. Of course if you do it now you won't know until after the next re-rank in about 3 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I had previously stated my intention to stop playing the game after this re-rank, but as my position has leapt from a fairly constant page 16/17 since I started and now moved up to page 8, I may just keep playing! But not for any suppostiion as to how this reflects one's actual ranking, nor how it affects real life (sales). No. it'll just pass the time while I wait for all those sales to drop in, (my one sale in Jan has been equalled by one zoom in Feb ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelich Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Up to page 4 from page 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Middle of page 2 to middle of page 1 I had a massive cull last year that seems to have paid off. I'm consistently getting around a dozen sales each month, so I'm very pleased with the numbers, not the amounts paid. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crellin Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Of course if you do it now you won't know until after the next re-rank in about 3 months. I think you will know your position in the latest rank tomorrow ? Changing a keyword doesn't affect your rank that much - although there is the thought that all of us with BHZ in one of our images are getting some extra "no zooms" views which is bad? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Baigent Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 How are you guys measuring your rank? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rigger Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Thanks Spacecadet, understood - I think. Will not your rank also be affected by the quality/relevance/"newness" etc etc assigned by Alamy to whichever image I choose to add BHZ to? So I need to select my most creative and/or relevant image, yes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 How are you guys measuring your rank? Put bhz as the first word in the essential keyword box in any RM image. When a search is done on bhz this will then compare like with like and a rough approximation of your rank will be found (not scientifically proven!) Thanks Spacecadet, understood - I think. Will not your rank also be affected by the quality/relevance/"newness" etc etc assigned by Alamy to whichever image I choose to add BHZ to? So I need to select my most creative and/or relevant image, yes? See above, the bhz search is comparing all those images with bhz as a key word, so any old image (or new!) will do! John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CandyAppleRed Images Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Main is up 6 pages to 8 which is the first time it has moved in about a year. Other 3 pseudos static. Zooms for this year are up to around where I was after April last year already, so pretty happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Todd Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 All pseudos are on the same pages as before but moved up a few places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolf Adlercreutz Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 From top of page 2 to middle of page 7. Not good, but I had a pretty good January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Despite increasing zooms and sales. Down from 14 to 23????? Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Down from 14 to 23????? Allan Welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cofiant Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 BHZ still on page 16, I used to be around pages 6 - 8 until the best of button was introduced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Middle of page 2, unchanged really Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Despite increasing zooms and sales. Down from 14 to 23????? Allan Despair not. I got my best sales in terms of $$$$ when I was on page 23. Keywording counts at least as much as "rank" in my opinion. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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