What a year and decade! Try to think back on what you were doing for New Year’s in 1999. That was 10 years ago. Hope everyone has an enjoyable and safe New Year’s celebration.
Cutcaster’s Resolution for the New Year: Get more BUYERS and fill the marketplace with more unique photos and illustrations that they can choose.
Have a great start to 2010 and wishing you the best in the new year.
The 12 Commandments of Keywording success according to Cutcaster 
1. You only need between five to fifteen (5-15) keywords. Twenty (20) would be the most you ever really need. Better tagging means better search results, bringing in more users, which means more sales for your images at higher prices then other sites. We would rather have fewer files that have better keywords than more files with plenty of irrelevant keywords
2. Keywords need to be separated by a comma. Compound phrases need to be separated by a space and then surround by commas. You don’t need any quotation marks.
3. You can add ONE SET of location tags. Avoid using locations as tags unless there is something in the photo that makes its location recognizable. Not a seagull in the blue sky.
4. Remove all the keywords that are obviously not in the images
5. Remove tags that could be tangentially related, but aren’t really illustrated well by the photo. i.e. picture of cat, adding in “mouse”
6. Remove tags that are related to the photo, but so vague that no one would ever use them to search.
7. Take a few of the choice words and make them far better by turning them into a phrase
8. Don’t “stretch” your tags into irrelevancy, in order to generate more hits for an image. This can be very frustrating for our users, who tend to search literally.
9. Figures of speech, nicknames, slang, metaphors and metonyms can create a ton of problems in a search engine. Please don’t use them. The reviewers will add them in if necessary.
10. Proper Names and Catch Phrases — Don’t Break Them Up. If you have a keyword that is either a very common set of two words, or is a proper name, enter it as is. The search engine has the ability to recognize many phrases that operate as a common term but contain more than one word, such as “hard drive,” “hot dog,” or “White House.” It also recognizes the names of many public and historical figures.
11. You do not need to type in ‘car, cars’ to cover the singular and plural versions of a noun. Type in only the one that is more accurate for your photo. If there is only one car, type in “car.” Your image will come up in a search for both car and cars, but it will be ranked higher if the plurality matches what the buyer searched for.
12. Be as literal as possible. Describe just what is in the images.
Buying credits to license royalty free stock images and vector illustrations at Cutcaster gives you one more way to quickly download and license your desired files at a discount. When a user has available credits in their Cutcaster Credit account, they are able to control their budget and immediately download images or vectors from the site without having to checkout every time. It’s ONE simple click. The credit packages range from $23-4000.
On your MyCart page, if you click on the checkout button it will go directly to the usual checkout page where you have two options to pay. The first option is “pay-as-you-go,” which allows you to download any of the content at Cutcaster using any major credit card. The second option is buying credits in bulk at a discount and then using them. If, however, your Available Credits are less than the Total Amount of the items in their cart, you can use a credit card to purchase the files or buy more credits. But if your Available Credits are greater than the Total amount, you can choose between using your Cutcaster Available Credits or just use your credit card.
If you have any questions give us a call at 215-688-2751 and ask for John or email us at webmaster@cutcaster.com. To see a comparison of the different credit packages click on http://www.cutcaster.com/credits.
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