Incorrectly Tagged Picture Flooding

This has been mentioned more than a dozen times - there is apparently nothing the folks that run/work for FAA can do about un-related spam tags.

garreth why would you or a buyer wanting to find elephant images go to "random "- elephants... place "elephants " in the search ? page after page of elephants.

When I type in "elephant" into the search box, that is what I get for many pages. You may notice that best sellers tend to rise on faa search results. You do not get anywhere by putting incorrect keywords on your listings. In fact, it has the opposite effect. So as these incorrectly tagged images never get hits or sales, they will be pushed to the back. No one searches RANDOM. I spot check my own listings regularly because every once in awhile I copy and pasted keywords when I was listing and some do not apply. I remove those. I do not want my work showing up where it doesn't belong!

Hi Tom

The random tab allows one to find original works.meaning that if I want to buy a picture that has not already been sold to a hundred other people. I am not likely to find such a picture under recently sold or featured art. Anyhow thats my thought s on the random tab. With the market being flooded as it is we dont need to flood it more by tagging picture s incorrectly. I am sure you would not be amused if someone uploaded over 900 blurry picture s of ducks and tagged them as cloud s. It lower s the whole standard of the site. Its like finding fresh fish for sale next to the donuts in your local bakery.

Hey Sharon

Yes its does seem no uses the random tab! :-) and I do hope these weirdly tagged picture s get push into a corner somewere.

Thanks

I clicked your link and got a full page of elephant pics. The only one that didn't contained elephant seals.

Hi melany
Strange indeed, even now when I click that same link the first image is newyork and second is a tug boat.

May be a glitch on my side "cookies" maybe !?

Anyhow it seems to be all quite hopless as was rightly it seems mentioned in theffirst comment.

Thanks for your help

All you can do is to make sure your images are tagged correctly and market your work.

And sometimes keywords are funny. For instance my "bass guitar" shows up when you search "fish" because "bass" is also a type of fish. Can't help that!

True! Thanks Sharon
Btw love your work just took a look true wall worthy art.

Thanks Garreth! Took a peek at yours too...will follow and see more of your beautiful eye. :)

Garreth, in watercolor a double elephant is refer to the over-size watercolor paper (26"x40").

[edit] removing posts after the fact does make responses like mine look confusing! lol

"Well I will here post the a link to the offender..."

Faux pas. -W

You can report such spam to Abbie or myself via PM.

I would take a look but since you used the random search I could not duplicate your results.

This IS why FAA doesn't mix random images in the default search btw.

Please do not post links to other artists in public but do send me the artist via PM.

Thanks

Thanks jc findley
I will remove the comment with his link.
Sorry to be a wee dumb but what is a PM.

Thanks much
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Edited. You removed comment! Cool thanks

PM = private message

Go under my name, and hit message member.

Beautiful work BTW

Thank you jc findley and Sharon.