{"id":9223,"date":"2016-03-17T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/?p=9223"},"modified":"2016-03-15T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:39:08","slug":"9223","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/17\/9223\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairer search returns for photographers at robertharding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>At roberharding we are working hard to ensure that top quality, exclusive photography by our own photographers features prominently in our search results, and is not\u00a0hidden behind those of large third party agencies. We are proud of this\u00a0unique, handpicked content and are making it our priority\u00a0to champion our own contributors.<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.robertharding.com\/preview\/RM\/RH\/HORIZONTAL\/1185-176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild white horses running through water, Camargue, France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>It has been reported to us that\u00a0many\u00a0photographers see\u00a0few\u00a0returns from their images on\u00a0the\u00a0sites of larger agencies. In particular, we have read in the industry press that search algorithms on one company&#8217;s site overwhelmingly favour certain large collections and production companies over others, and over individual photographers&#8217; contributions.<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.robertharding.com\/preview\/RM\/RH\/HORIZONTAL\/1109-1939.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snorkeling in Muri Lagoon on Captain Tama&#8217;s Lagoon Cruises, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, South Pacific<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>When generic keywords are\u00a0used to search, it was reported that certain brands are\u00a0found\u00a0to appear repeatedly at the top of\u00a0the search return order on the large agency&#8217;s site, and it is only when more specific terms are used that individual contributions have more chance of appearing.\u00a0Since most clients prefer generic search terms over specific ones, this is bad news for the individual contributor and may explain poor returns.<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.robertharding.com\/preview\/RF\/RH_RF\/HORIZONTAL\/1204-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"289\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), Yorkshire, England<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>Where an agency&#8217;s search results are in part decided in response to the amount of customer interaction with the content, images tend to become part of a cycle in which those\u00a0appearing at the top of search results are more likely to be chosen by the customer, in turn enhancing their position in further search results\u00a0and further obscuring the variety of contributions of other providers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At robertharding we are constantly reviewing our search algorithms and we are favouring the content of our own contributors over third parties, to provide a system that is fairer to our individual photographers as well as giving clients access to the very best images.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At roberharding we are working hard to ensure that top quality, exclusive photography by our own photographers features prominently in our search results, and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1202,1186],"tags":[1297,1296,1295,1078],"class_list":["post-9223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-robert-says","tag-contributors","tag-photo-agency-news","tag-search-results","tag-travel-photography"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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