Example of Keywording a Photo for Increased Searchability

This article gives a quick example of how the keywords for a photograph registered with an online photo stock agency were improved to increase the likelihood of being found in the agency's search engine.

This example relates to my article Keywording Photographic Images for Online Stock Agencies.

Original image and keywords

photo

Caption

Commuters at Liverpool Street Station

Description

Commuters at Liverpool Street Station

Keywords  

commute, commuter, crowd, england, escalator, people, railway station, shopping, stair

Total: 12 unique words
 

New keywording

Caption

Commuters and shoppers on escalator, Liverpool Street railway station, London, UK

Description

Looking down on crowd descending a moving staircase with much motion. Hurrying figures on a modern mosaic floor in white and grey tile with shops behind. Glass stair sides under handrail. Hundreds of men women and children going about their business people walking to and from work and school during the early morning day. Liverpool Street is a mainline train station in the north of the City of London. It services destinations to east England including London Stansted Airport and Colchester. A daily express to Harwich connects with the ferry to Hoek van Holland. The London Underground (metro) station below has platforms on the Central Circle Metropolitan and Hammersmith City lines.

Keywords

activity, blue, brisk, britain, business, businessman, businesswoman, busy, city, cities, citizens, color, colour, commute, commuters, commuting, commutors, crossing, crowd, delay, employees, england, europe, fare, figure, flight, foot, gathered, great, grey, group, handrail, hurry, hurrying, image, landscape, passengers, pic, picture, rails, railroads, railways, rush, s, time, train, transport, travellers

Total: 128 unique keywords

Other Indexed Fields

Agencies often index the contents of some other fields:

• Categories (Tourism, People, Nature, Locations...)

• Attributes (Colour, format, size, orientation...)

• Photographer's name

These additional fields , when fully completed for the photo, enabled me to boost the total number of keywords available to search engines 170.

The total improvement was therefore from 12 intial keywords to 170 keywords for the image. To understand what a spectacularly huge difference that makes to image searchability, try entering these values in our Keyword Combinations Calculator.