ChatGPT AI Keywording to Improve Adobe Stock Earnings

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I tried keywording with ChatGPT and got surprising results, which I think will help boost my Adobe Stock earnings, as well as income from the other agencies. See the best prompts to get great search terms that will help customers find your images and videos at sites like Adobe Stock, Shutterstock and more.
The prompt I used in the video:
Write 50 keywords for an image showing a happy retired couple walking on the beach at sunset and holding hands. Separate the keywords with commas. The keywords will be used by customers who will download the image.
My formula for counting keywords in Google Sheets:
=LEN(TRIM(C1474))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(C1474," ",""))+1
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[@volkerhusberg4031]

Hi, thanks for the helpful advice. Keywording has always been a tedious task for me.

[@MicrostockLife]

Yeah, it certainly can be. But finding some time-saving hacks can be a real game changer. Best of luck!

[@Odidrawing]

Hi, thank you for the video. Only i want to say that the sistem say in the keyword tab. "Remaining 49 keywords" and don't say words. A keyword can consist of more than one word. So i think that there is not need to count the words. If a keyword is with two words is more specific sometimes and these is count from the sistem one keyword.

[@MicrostockLife]

Thanks for sharing that. Have a great day, and thanks for watching!

[@leodv999]

hi, why i can not see those contributor's keywords on their page as you shown on video?

[@oscargutierrez3733]

Thank you very much for the awesome stock content !!!

[@MicrostockLife]

Thanks for the feedback! Great to hear a lot of positive words from people. Hopefully I'm helping people with ideas on what to create, where to upload, etc.

[@PleiadianSister]

dude, amazing. Thank you!

[@MicrostockLife]

Glad you liked it! Best of luck to you!

[@paulroyle-grimes8279]

I am going to try this today. Then when Adobe stock gets around to reviewing the 400 photos which have been in review for the past two months I might be able to get these reviewed before June 2026.

[@MicrostockLife]

Hope it works out for you, and that your reviews speed up. Best of luck!

[@eurossocial]

Don't upload that extreme amount of images, isn't it considered as spamming? better stick to the limit of 50 each month. I believe you will get better approval time.

[@nothing_is_over]

Great video. I want to ask "Which 10 keywords are important for Adobe Stock or Shutterstock? I mean, should the most important keywords be at the top or bottom? When I input the first keywords, they appear at the bottom, so I'm confused."

[@MicrostockLife]

At Adobe the first 10 are most important. I put my list of keywords together in a spreadsheet first and then paste them in during the submission step. That way I can easily control the order. Best of luck to you!

[@nothing_is_over]

when we input keywords they are like - ''key, words, most, important, super, natural, footage'' etc. Here which one will be considered as the first keyword - ''key'' or ''footage''? Thank you for your time.@@MicrostockLife

[@afriniko6015]

Dude, Is it possible to change the title and keywords on images that have been received ?

[@MicrostockLife]

At Adobe Stock, yes you can, after the content has been approved. Go to your Dashboard, and look at your portfolio. You can find the image or video whose title or keywords you want to change, and move your mouse over those fields. A pen icon will appear, indicating you can edit and then re-save them. If you want to change titles or keywords for content currently in the queue for review, you will have to delete and reupload them with the desired titles and keywords. Of course, you lose your place in the review queue doing this, so you might want to wait until after they are accepted to do so. Best of luck!

[@arizee5040]

Is it fine if I have multiple words in a keyword? Like a long tail keyword? Or does adobe favor single word short tail keywords?

[@MicrostockLife]

Adobe does accept phrases as keywords. I don't include them often, unless it is the main theme of the image like "conflict resolution." Best of luck!

[@WondersofHimalayas]

Great video👏👏

[@MicrostockLife]

Thank you 👍

[@WondersofHimalayas]

@@MicrostockLife most welcome 🙌🙌

[@Accuface2000]

You can simply upload the image and ask ChatGPT to generate keywords.

[@Dahon5]

Can ChatGPT use an image and generate keywords? How about Titles? This is the paid version?

[@Pez_Azul]

good video! Do you think that uppercase in keywords is not good for clients searching images? thanks

[@MicrostockLife]

I don't think it's necessarily a problem. Customers should still be able to find your work if you use caps, but it appears strange. By default, ChatGPT and the other AI tools want to cap all the words in a list, and it's easy and just cleaner to ask it to put them in lower case, and comma separated. I've been doing this step daily for all my new uploads, and I never fail to find a dozen new words or phrases that I otherwise wouldn't have used. Best of luck!

[@Pez_Azul]

thanks for your fast response!@@MicrostockLife

[@siyuanjiang892]

Hi there, is it possible using chatgpt describing the image directly, rather than you tell chatgpt the title of the photo? I guess describing the image directly would be more accurate.

[@MicrostockLife]

Hi. Good question. I guess for me it would be similar. The way I write titles they are almost the same as descriptions but of course descriptions can have many more words. I think it's definitely worth experimenting with! Best of luck!

[@moongaming4743]

What about the description of the microstock?

[@MicrostockLife]

You could describe the image to Chat GPT and ask it to write a better description. This doesn't save you time because you are writing a description to begin with but you could get a better one as a result. Worth trying (though I currently don't do it). Best of luck!

[@noorulain8020]

I have a adobestock account in which i upload vector and AI content both should i focus on one thing or i can share both?

[@MicrostockLife]

Hi there! I believe a diverse portfolio is always the best strategy. I've been doing some AI images as an experiment but so far it hasn't been performing better than my traditional work. So my advice is to keep testing with AI to see if you can find a few specific topical niches that perform well for you and adjust your approach accordingly, but by all means, keep doing those vectors!

[@noorulain8020]

@@MicrostockLife Oh thanku you so much plz make vdoz on other stock sites Also

[@noorulain8020]

@@MicrostockLife much respect😊

[@noorulain8020]

@@MicrostockLife i have submitted ai files on adobestock and that portfolio is under portfolio should i delete or not?

[@CanberkSezer]

does it really matter to have all keywords in lower case.

[@MicrostockLife]

I think most the agencies would accept them, but if they end up on the screen for customers to see with words in upper case when they shouldn't be grammatically, it would look strange, so I prefer to use all lower-case

[@bilalgraphics01]

Hi sir my account is block by irregular sale activity is that any chance of unblocking of my account

[@MicrostockLife]

Hi, sorry to hear that. It's every contributor's worst fear! This is advice from Adobe on what to do: "If your account has been recently blocked, please write to contributor support via [e-mail] for information on your account. The team is currently backed up, but will respond asap." You can read a long chain about someone working to resolve his blocked account here: www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/account-blocked-i-need-help-please/

[@anthan0109]

Thank you

[@MicrostockLife]

Thanks for watching and for the comment!

[@jorgenmalmo]

Chatgpt cant count words.

[@MicrostockLife]

Correct, ChatGPT can't give you a completely accurate count. If you ask for 50 words to describe an image, it will give you roughly 50 words but it won't be exact. Thanks for the feedback!