Richard Baker 322 Posted June 14, 2013 I've been looking for the page that Alamy posted a while ago on the preferred, or most effective ways of describing ages such as '3 year-old' etc. A link would be appreciated. Thanks, Richard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SShep 13,562 Posted June 14, 2013 Here you go: http://www.alamy.com/contributor/help/recommended-keywording-terms.asp Steve 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DickJ 32 Posted June 14, 2013 Steve, Thank you. I needed that too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Baker 322 Posted June 14, 2013 Terrific. Thanks. Richard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Baker 322 Posted June 16, 2013 One more question, if you please. I've been struggling to guess childrens' ages (despite having two of our own!). Once they become teenagers, one forgets the differences between say, a seven and a nine year-old. Now in the guidelines to the terms mentioned in the link above, I see other contributors might be putting eg. 7-9 which is what searchers seem to be looking more for rather than '7' or '8' or '9'. Thoughts? Thanks, Richard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pearl 877 Posted June 18, 2013 The problem with some of the suggested terms is that they can bring up false results. For instance if you are describing a 20 year old as a young woman the images also come up in searches for old woman because Alamy has not activated the "..." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Baker 322 Posted June 18, 2013 Agreed. I've ignored the old when not accompanied by the hyphen (eg. year-old). Richard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites