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no comma , but I never do that. I post city and state separately

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A comma separates key words so "Irmo, South Carolina" is two keywords. I do it like this: "Irmo South Carolina, Irmo SC, Irmo"

Geeez.
I saw the title of your disccussion and immediately signed into it to see who is in a COMA?!!

Duuuhhh, 🤔

BillTomsa

https://billtomsa.blogspot.com/

LOL Me too

I'd put it in both ways.

I'll do Casco, Bay, Casco Bay, Down, east, Downeast, down east...

I can rarely come up with 500 characters anyway so I have plenty of them to "waste."

Me too, Bill Tomsa. Twice, I did this, second time knowing it was going to be misleading.

LOL, great marketing, Josef.

Ditto message.

HAHAhaa... put me on the coma list... I saw it too... lol

Haha. Sorry about the play on words. Thanks for the opinions on the question, too

No comma if you want the search to parse it. My opinion only.

Put me in the coma category.

Sheessh!

Dave
Artist

I'd do it both ways

east nottingham pa,chester county,oxford pennsylvania,lower jibibitz

That's the way I usually do it.

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Susan Maxwell Schmidt
So-so Board Moderator and
Artist Extraordinaire

a comma makes it a new keyword or phrase. so you would label it as

town state, town,state,state abbreviation, town state abbreviation in different ways. other sites uses quotes.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

I felt like I was in a coma this morning - until the coffeemakerstoppedgurgling. LOL

Other than that, I would respond exactly as Mike did - with all possible variations. Some people still use commas in search terms for a [city, state] but most will not and just enter [city state].

Do what Abbie says to do. Use the comma.

Wordsmith

you just can't use comma's in titles for some reason.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

I'm confused as to whether there's a space after a keyword's comma. Mike seems to use no space, but other people seem to use a space.

word1,word2,word3 or
word1, word2, word3 ?

no spaces.

people use spaces,because,this,is,hard,to,read,and,check. but because there are no spaces, i can probably add another word in there. the spaces count as characters.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Ah! BC the spaces count as characters! Thought it might be a programming thing. Got it. Thanks!

And I don't know about the general search, but in the search that I use for contest and group entry, you should put every single word separate. I was looking for one today that was taken on the Mississippi River. I used the keyword river. It did not turn up in the search. I checked the keywords and found that I had mississippi river,steamboat,etc. but I had never put mississippi and river in separately. A shortcoming of the search, IMO, but good to know about.

Tricky on the discussion title.

Ask yourself the question... How might someone search using keywords for what is in your image. If you think it's primarily a certain way, add your keyword as such... secondarily, if you have not filled your 500 character quota of key words, put it in again as someone might search for it even if it's not what most people would do.

I'm usually trying to use up all my available 500 characters with keywords which is not always easy to do so I add them in several ways as some have done above.

Another example of using keywords (thinking as others might search for something)... Most everyone thinks those birds that fly around over the sea are "seagulls" or even "sea gulls" when in fact there is no such real thing as "seagulls". They are "gulls" or perhaps a specific type of gull. Knowing however that people will most commonly search for "seagulls", I would use that as a keyword as well as "gulls" or even "sea gulls". It's how people in general enter search criteria, and that's what you might consider as well.

Is it a "landscape" or "waterscape" or is it both. According to how I've seen people on FAA use the term, it could be either, so now I add both as keywords. BTW, my spellchecker doesn't recognize "waterscape" as a word. The Web may recognize "water-scape" or "water scape" or even "waterscape" or even spelled wrong, it's how people may search for something.

I use the term "grayscale" and again my spellchecker doesn't recognize it as a word. I may use different forms such as "gray-scale", or for those in Europe, "greyscale" or "grey-scale", along with the more common terms such as "black and white", monotone, monochrome, B&W, B/W, BW, etc.

I live in Pasadena Maryland, and I often use the name and state as keywords. However, if I only use "Pasadena", people would probably assume Pasadena California. Now I use "Pasadena Maryland", and "Pasadena MD" as keywords.

So, think how others may try to search and make those possible keywords available according to how commonly you think the general public uses them.

Very good advice, Brian. Have you noticed an increase in sales as a result?

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Thanks Lisa. My sales in general have increased slowly since I started here in 2011. This is the only place I make my work available for sale but presently I average only 1 to two sales a month. At that slow rate it's impossible to account for the reasons images sell. I just try to think logically and do many small things hoping they collectively make a difference. I've stepped up my exposure on Facebook, but it would be very rare to find out someone there bought something since FAA does not give the purchaser's name.

I wish there were a like button. Thanks, Brian. Good advice.

Thanks Diane, for the acknowledgement. I wish we had a delete feature and more than 24 hrs for editing. lol.

Ha! Aint that the truth. I wish threads weren’t shut down so quickly! Im sure im not the only one who might go months between participating in discussions.

At least when they're closed, you can still go back with searches and find information. I don't think they're closed by FAA until after about 3 months with no activity. Otherwise the person who started the thread can close them anytime.