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How to Give Title, Descriptions & Keywords for Stock Photos

Title, Descriptions & Keywords

Title:
Don't lead File Titles with: A1, A, AAA, 1A, etc.

Unacceptable Title: "A Five Pencils" or "1 Five Red Pencils"

Manipulating the titles so that your uploads will appear first in search results by starting every image with "A Five Pencils" or "1 Five Red Pencils" is not allowed. Titles should accurately reflect the subject. Reviews of member accounts occur regularly.

Remember, a title is a name you give your file. These aren't translated, so keep it simple.

Descriptions:
Please provide us with a good description of the image. Include relevant details: the subject, location and any interesting or valuable information, such as the camera used, scanner, or any special circumstances about the image. The information you provide may help us decide if we can approve your file. You are welcome to include a banner or a link to similar images, as long as this is in addition to a properly detailed description.

This information is not searchable, nor is it translated, but it can provide important details to the person who is considering your file for download.

Keywords:
Keywords are the most important information you can provide to help users find your images. While people often know the specific subject they are looking for, concept keywords may help to inspire the end-user to choose your images to represent the idea. Keywords are closely reviewed in the inspection process; inappropriate words will be removed.

Each keyword you enter will map to the tag that will be used to find your image in our search. The keyword you enter is a "tag", and it will be displayed on the left side; the corresponding "term" will be on the right. Sometimes there will be several available terms for a word, based on the natural ambiguities found in language. For example, the tag "pen" will give you two term options: animal pen (enclosure) or pen (writing instrument). It is your responsibility to put the right terms which can be attributed to your file and allow it to be found. This process is known as disambiguation (DA).

You can add synonyms for tag too as they can improve the search results as well.

Categories are a tool that allows people to browse images that have been placed in the same category without using keywords. You will need to attribute at least one category to your image.

Acceptable Example:
Keywords: Young Woman, Red, Apples, Makeup, Biting, White Background, Shoulders Up, Large Group of Objects, One Person, Young Adult, Healthy Eating, Looking At Camera

Category: Adults > 20-30 Yr Old Woman

Teenagers > Girls Only

Unacceptable Example:
Sin, Bible, Temptation, Medicine, Doctor, Eden, Exercise, your user name, your business name, your email
Detailed Categories > Food And Drink

Acceptable Example:
Keywords: Man, Barefoot, Shadows, Tie, Green, Stairs, Head in Hands, Depressed, Giving Up, Sadness, Square, Urban, One Person, Young Man, Skinny

Category: Expressions> Frustration

Category: Adults > 20-30 Yr Old man

Teenagers > Boys Only

etc

Unacceptable Example:
Suicide, Prozac, Breakup, Girlfriend, Argument, Business, Bankruptcy, Death, your user name, your business name, your email

Category> Fashion and Glamour

People love Picdif. They love the quality, variety, and diversity of our images. But there’s always room for improvement, and one of the places we need to take a look at is how our files are tagged. Currently, there are some files that are tagged inaccurately, whether by accident or in hope of getting more hits, and they are making the search function harder to use. This impacts everyone on the site; if a buyer can’t find what he or she is looking for, no images get bought and the buyer’s business goes elsewhere.

The implementation of the Controlled Vocabulary takes great steps to help reduce inappropriate tagging, by categorizing the search terms into a huge vocabulary tree.

Adding tags and terms requires one more step during the upload process than in the past. Here's how it works:

Tagging New Uploads

1. Upload your image like you always did.
2. Enter the appropriate tags in the "Keywords" box, separated by commas. You need to add between 10 and 50 tags. Click 'Save.'
3. Here's where it gets different. You will now see all the possible terms that are attached to each of the tags you chose. A term is a specific meaning for a tag that could be defined several different ways. Check the boxes beside the appropriate terms. You can remove a term by clicking the minus box in the left hand column if none of the provided meanings are what you really had in mind.

Each tag must have at least one term attached to be searchable. If the term you want isn't given as a possible meaning, try to think of another word that more accurately describes what your image conveys.

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