haven't sold anything

Hi friends
I opened a blog it's been more than 2 years and I haven't sold anything
you can help me where is the problem

thank you

You rarely sell photo here on Pond5. Also if you only have 13 video clips, you probably have no sales. 85% of videos I upload never sell. Try uploading 1,000 videos and see what happens. Forget about photos.

I'd second that, you'll need a LOT of video clips, good thoroughly descriptive titles and keywords, there's 30 million clips in the pond now which makes it harder, for some reason photos have never sold here but I don't know which is the best site for photos anymore if one even exists.

Pond5 does not appear to promote its photo collection, which is unfortunate because the fair 50/50 split is rare these days. With no established client base, as there is for videos, the chances of making regular photo sales here are pretty slim, especially when you consider all the competition from huge microstock sites.

This would make for a great video topic!! I may do it at some point. these fellahz are right, Pond 5 is NOT a photo destination, I have 7000 and rarely sell, maybe one or two a month. I have them all priced at $19 for that reason.
As for the OP not selling, I also agree OP's portfolio needs to gain some weight.

With that all being established, if you have metadata in your content, videos and images, google will read it and promote it, how? Well, when you search for an image on google, on the image tab at the top, you come across all of our stuff, however if you filter down to CC (Creative Commons) your results basically suck, it's how most images are sold as when you click those images on the Google results page it goes to a Shutterstock, Dreamstime or Pond 5 image or video. Just some random knowledge.

On a whole new note, Depositphotos is killing it for me, over all of the Agencies so maybe try Depositphotos and see if you can sell more images there, Dreamstime is a good one for me too.

GLWS
Billy

It's not clear that Google reads video/photo files metadata and promotes the file. There's more to it than that. Some years ago Google told us they didn't look at keywords - and only sometimes uses the Description tag.

Haven't seen any info on how Pond5's search engine uses or not metadata keywords and Description tags, etc. so that's a big question mark.

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag

Maybe it's changed - dunno.

that is for HTML meta tags.
Meta tags are areas in HTML code that contain information about a website. ... Search engines access certain meta tags so they can, for instance, display a page title and description in the search results.

has nothing to do with Metadata, Google for sure reads that metadata.

further on..

Along with alternative texts and filenames, EXIF and IPTC Meta Data can help Google to understand your pictures so don't neglect them

just search "does google read exif" a.k.a metadata

Depositphotos is just part of the race to the bottom - just read what they are offering buyers and think of ourselves as sellers. Then dig deeper and we find the pay "$0.25 – $33.82". Been there doing that. We all need to get our prices up and that is not proper recompense. At least on Pond5 we can set our prices and at a reasonable rate and then drive traffic to our images.

The race to the bottom is over, I'm afraid. Microstock took care of that. What prompted me to place some of my RF images here rather than at the micros was the ability to set my own prices and the fair 50/50 split. However, 50% of nothing is still nothing, plus the lack of views and reporting of image sales on this forum tell me that sadly P5 is a waste of time for images. Best of luck to those who find ways of driving traffic to their images and making sales in this over-saturated market.