Betty LaRue Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 So I'm confused. When I joined, I believe stemming was in place. Unless my brain tumor is growing, (kidding), at a later date stemming was removed and we were told to use plurals. Also, think, thinking and such. Then somewhere recently on the forum, it was mentioned Alamy doesn't want us to use plurals if only one subject is in the picture. So what is it? If I have one man in the picture, standing in front of one house, do I keyword man, men, person, people? House, houses? Or man, house? Just when I think I know the answers, somebody changes the questions. Betty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MircoV Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I would just think that you should put that what is on the photo. I dont think that if somebody searches for woman that he wants to get a group of people. I would just put man and house. If there are two houses then "houses". But this is how i think........... Better 7 relevant keywords then 25 and 15 from it are not directly matching. Mirco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Watkins Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I would just think that you should put that what is on the photo. I dont think that if somebody searches for woman that he wants to get a group of people. I would just put man and house. If there are two houses then "houses". But this is how i think........... Better 7 relevant keywords then 25 and 15 from it are not directly matching. Mirco The trouble is though Mirco that a potential buyer may well search for "women in the gym" and would be happy with, or even prefer, an image showing a woman in the gym. Buyers are often not that literal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I would just think that you should put that what is on the photo. I dont think that if somebody searches for woman that he wants to get a group of people. I would just put man and house. If there are two houses then "houses". But this is how i think........... Better 7 relevant keywords then 25 and 15 from it are not directly matching. Mirco The trouble is though Mirco that a potential buyer may well search for "women in the gym" and would be happy with, or even prefer, an image showing a woman in the gym. Buyers are often not that literal. Have to agree, they are looking for multiple images of a particular subject, and the brain easily slips into plural mode in that scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 When people stop searching for "Norfolk churches" or "English villages" then I will stop putting in plurals. I do it on a picture by picture basis. If I think the image contains something generic that is likely to be searched for in the plural, I include plurals. If not, I don't. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 Say you have a woman holding a baby. Do you only use woman, baby? And, of course, the other singular words, infant female, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 All from a quick glance at AoA: dangerous foreign roads foreign road signs funny foreign signs modern cities uk cities in winter cities different poor cities developing countries English speaking countries Third World countries buildings all seasons all seasons in one day historical images panoramic images wonderful images & Alamy Images (It turns out there are no 57,714,232 images llike Alamy wants us to think, but only just 90,994 Alamy images) ;-) wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Say you have a woman holding a baby. Do you only use woman, baby? And, of course, the other singular words, infant female, etc. "Women with babies". So I would include plurals. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 ok. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Watkins Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 ok. Thanks. Don't you mean "Thank"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 ok. Thanks. Don't you mean "Thank"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaJ Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Betty, I now add the plurals to my images (when I remember) even if there's only a singular subject. And also include the singular version when there's more than one in the image. I learned my lesson after seeing my images had been missed in customer searches (for things like "Vancouver mountains" when I had a photo of one of them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted May 7, 2015 Author Share Posted May 7, 2015 That's what I had been doing for ages, then read something saying not to. I will continue covering all of my bases! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dov makabaw Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 If I have the space I always use all variants i.e. woman women lady ladies female females girl girls, insofar as it is appropriate. I also use misspellings when I see them and foreign names as well as English and American equivalents - Cuba Kuba - grey gray - etc dov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 If the photo includes a woman only then to add "girl, girls" to your keywords will have a detrimental affect the ctr surely. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 If the photo includes a woman only then to add "girl, girls" to your keywords will have a detrimental affect the ctr surely. Allan Not unless her name is Shirley. Sorry i'll get my coat! John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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