Keywording photos is a very important step to ensure your photos are easily discoverable by viewers and potential buyers. Here's an article that will outline how you should keyword photos for maximum discoverability.
Keywords on 500px are managed in your My Content in the "Keywords" section on the right side of the page.
1. To add a keyword
In My Content, click the three dots in the bottom-right corner of the photo and select Edit. Enter your keywords in the Keywords field, then click SAVE.
2. To remove keywords
In My Content, click the three dots in the bottom-right corner of the photo and select Edit. Click the “x” next to the keyword you want to remove, then click SAVE.
Here are a few helpful articles on how to keyword your photos for maximum discoverability:
- How To Add Effective Keywords To Your Photos & Get Discovered By Buyers
The most important tagging work is in choosing commonly-searched words that genuinely describe the image, and we would recommend focusing on this. Among other benefits, this will help people searching in languages other than English to find your tags via our translations (a third element of our CV) into a number of major languages.
About 10-15 tags per image is usually fine. Pay particular attention to the different categories of tag:
- *Location and objects* - Where in the world? City, State/Province, Country. Building names and types. What objects, devices and colours (e.g. red, mobile phone, x-ray, miso soup, potato, rollerskates) are present?
- *Setting and time* - e.g. indoor/outdoor, skyline, tropical, underwater, daytime, autumn
- *Themes, concepts and emotions* - what’s the big idea? What are the subjects of the image feeling? E.g. travel, history, love, healthy eating, ambition, cheerful, surveillance, refugees. Do not go overboard with concept/emotion tags.
- *People* - ethnicity, number of people, age (e.g. 70s, boy, young woman, 10 years old, child, seniors), gender, family or other relationships, appearance, clothing.
- *Animals, plants* - Species name if possible.
- *Activity* - e.g. walk, smile, hunt.
- *Viewpoint and composition* - e.g. high-angle, close-up, front view, portrait etc.
- *Photography techniques* - e.g. long exposure, copy space, digitally generated, etc.
Phrasal tags can be very useful - for example ‘black and white’ rather than separate tags ‘black’ and ‘white’.