Dreamstime Reveals Keywords used for Downloading

Dreamstime has announced today a new and welcome feature.

From now on, you'll be able to know which keywords were used by a buyer when one of your images is downloaded.

This feature, present in some macrostock agencies, is a complete novelty in the microstock world.

In their brief presentation of the new feature in their forums, they say information about this is being collected since Jan, 4th, 2008.

A note also about relevancy. The agency revealed that in visual search features (by browsing, I believe) no information is revealed. Also, and I quote from their announcement, "In some cases (below 1%) there might be a discrepancy between what shows there and what the buyer actually used for downloading."

To access the new information, all you have to do is check your earnings page in the management area. Next to each image downloaded are now presented the keywords used by the buyer to find your image.

Kudos to Dreamstime for this very useful feature.