flagging inappropriate keywords

Hi, i am a contributor as well as a buyer.

I have to admit that i do a bad job in my own key wording.

When i search for a particular keyword, there are tones of irrelevant images and footage that comes up.

I hope there might be a button for me to flag these images/ footage and that the administrator can help to review them. This will be better for everyone of us.

There needs to be a discussion on what is an inappropriate keyword, I saw a tutorial aimed at still photos and it had little arrows pointed to everything in the picture with a keyword attached to it, everything in the picture not the photographers mind.

So do we include suggestive keywords or stick strictly to just the facts.? Just what is in the video.

For example, all my severe weather video, I've added climate and climate change as keywords, same with my Hamilton smoke stack vis, and many others, car crashes I've added insurance as a keyword.

Maybe that is wrong and we should be sticking to deadly accurate keywords in the Titles and keywords fields? apparently the search engine uses the title as well as the keywords box unless I'm wrong but that's my understanding.

Just did a search for my smoke stacks Hamilton vis and it came up if I searched it that way but if I search climate change it does not.

Climate change is causing more intense summer and winter storms and car accidents affect insurance but should we be adding those keywords? a buyer doing a piece on global warming and climate change might be looking for smoke stacks or blizzards or severe summer storms and storm damage already, someone already working on car insurance rates would already know they need vis of car crashes in winter/summer etc so should we be cluttering things up with suggestive keywords vs just what is in the picture.?

And then, so you key everything that is in the picture/video? in some of my many blizzard/storm accident files I have people walking in the extreme conditions, do I keyword shoes, winter jacket, winter coat, coat, backpack, street, sidewalk?

and finally, I wonder if less but very accurate titles and keywords would increase sales and rankings as customers would get what they are directly searching for vs anything and everything that could potentially be related to a suggestive keyword as we try and do the thinking for them?

Thoughts?

I think it would be very handy for the purposes of this discussion if we had the data. We don't know, for instance, what keywords were used to find (or not find) our clips. What circumstances lead to a sale? I've never been able to make sense of the keyword cloud or keyword lists in Artist resources - for instance, when I do a known search, looking for clues to a niche, or whether a clip is worth pursuing to make, I've not seen the results of my search in there. Not even when I was using silly fake words to determine how long it took a particular keyword to update in the search 'bot's brain (is 10 days, by the way, from the time you add a keyword to when it takes effect)

If on each sale we were given the keywords that were used to find it that would help I believe.

"Jacephoto 2015-02-18 21:40
Hi, i am a contributor as well as a buyer.

I have to admit that i do a bad job in my own key wording.

When i search for a particular keyword, there are tones of irrelevant images and footage that comes up.

I hope there might be a button for me to flag these images/ footage and that the administrator can help to review them. This will be better for everyone of us."

There is a flag icon under each clip you look at. And what do you think first flag in the pull down is? Well of all things it happens to be Irrelevant Title or Keywords.

That flagging system has been there for some time. Whether curators pay any attention to flags that's another matter. But it's there so use it.

Stock sites should start to include keywording services for free. Keywording should not be a contributor's job. Not all contributors are English native speakers: I often have troubles to find specific names for certain actions which are totally different in each language. For example, in Romanian, we do not have things like "air quotes" and I had to research two days to find the right expression. A non-contributor keyworder would be much more neutral and correct.

So why not a keyword tool??