How do you search Google, Yahoo!, etc.? With one word? You know you will be successful if you use multiple words (keyphrases). Enter single words for esotoric, arkane subjects, but for popular subjects, enter phrases you would expect a photo researcher to use.

If you're about to enter a word or phrase, and think you may have already entered it, go ahead and type it in anyway. Duplicates are never a problem. You are entitled to 50 words/phrases on your PhotosourceGROUP store and 3000 words/phrases on your PhotoSourceBANK page. Use them all! The more text you enter, the sooner you'll be getting hits.

IF YOU MISSPELL. Spell check your words before you cut and paste them in. (We found one photographer typed in Forth of July. A spell check would have caught this.) On hard-to-spell words, spell the word many ways. Don't go back and correct it. Instead type another spelling. (Who knows, maybe the photobuyer might misspell it also when they conduct their search.) Remember: You can list up to 3,000 words.

GEOGRAPHIC LISTINGS. Be sure to use abbreviations, as well as spelling out. Examples: New York, NY, Delaware, DE. List also cities, national parks, etc. Another feature: If the photobuyer is searching for, say, Israel, and spells it Isreal, our search engine is capable of guessing that Israel was the selected word. Attach modifiers to your phrases. Example: deer, adult deer, mature deer, large rack deer, baby deer, white tail deer, fallen deer, shot deer, deer in captivity, dead deer, jumping deer.

ABBREVIATIONS. It's O.K. to abbreviate, but also spell it out, because we can't anticipate just how the photo researcher is going to phrase their search words. Example: Natl (National); Can (Canada); Org (Organization). Remember, you get 3,000 words, so use up the space!

Photobuyers will be able to find you and your photos if you list them correctly in the PhotoSourceBANK profile. Click here to see some examples of listings written in a way that will get good results. If you use these as your guide, you'll have photobuyers rapping on your door.

HINT: When you make your own search on Google or another search engine, do you use one word or a series of words? You probably use a phrase, not a single word. The same goes for photobuyers. They make multiple word searches. Anticipate what phrase a photobuyer might use to locate your picture and enter several combinations of this phrase describing your picture.

Remember, you have an allotment of 3,000 words, so use them all!

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