Searching for items on this marketplace is difficult for buyers if authors keyword stuff the track title as a way of manipulating SEO. This is now being currently addressed by Envato.
3 No-one sells anything on Elements - it’s a subscription service whereby subscribers pay a monthly fee to download whatever and however many items they want and authors get a % based on number of downloaded items per month plus a contributor share. This does not constitute as a sale as we know it on AudioJungle.
Seasonal patterns of buyer behaviour such as holidays / vacations and school/university closure has an effect plus traffic being redirected to Elements from AudioJungle using aggressive marketing stratagies all play a part.
Is it really being addressed by Envato? “Currently”? Top sellers have been dominating popular keyword results for close to 4 years now, to the best of my recollection. Given Envato’s ongoing pattern of silence toward Audiojungle authors regarding our suggestions and needs, what makes you believe this is “currently being addressed”?
I accidentally took that to mean that they’re actually taking steps to rectify the issue.
If they would only fix one or two of the major issues, it would have a ripple effect and go a long way toward making the entire search experience more logical and professional.
Completely agree with the scepticism but if they are aware and are looking or addressing the issue then there is hope. Maybe it is a niaive standpoint that I have but I too have my reservations about a whole lot of things around here.
Seeing as the focus of the Q&A to which you linked is SEO as it pertains to traffic from Google to Envato, unfortunately I won’t be holding my breath waiting for any changes to the internal search, despite @BenLeong’s implication that “keyword stuffing” will be dealt with in a meaningful way.
Like a lot of things around here I too have to agree with you. It’s fun though just hoping that one day the world will be a better place…maybe a film should be made about it and it could have lots of happy things and a happy ending.
This is what I don’t understand. It’s such an easy fix and requires no work what-so-ever from Envato. Reviewer just clicks soft reject, reason, illegal title. job done. Surely such a simple thing can be achieved without too much hoo-haa? Especially right now whilst the review queue is so short. Perfect timing really. I get that it might take a while longer to change the ones already up, but Jees, really Envato? An email to all reviewers: “Hi guys, can you soft-reject all items that have duplicate name titles, thanks” Took me 30 seconds to type…
I don’t know, maybe the reviewers are waiting for a policy update before they take action. Then again, why can Envato reach out already to authors without this policy change in place?
I am certain a policy change won’t fix this problem, maybe unless very serious actions are actually taken against authors who do this.
As an example for how much policies and fair play is worth at this market:
Seeing the same 2 authors who I (and many others) have reported for self purchasing and stealing compositions, participate in this weeks sales campaign 3 times in a row… I am just speechless really.
And that’s one of the reasons why I have a very low belief that a policy change like this would have any effect/or be given enough resources to be dealt with so that things can be under control. The solution is obviously to address the search engine IMHO.
Maybe an alternative solution could be to remove trusted update mode for authors who does this, so there is no option to rename tracks without going through a reviewer. The downside with this is that it would increase the workload of the reviewers a lot. Just going through all the gazillion tracks that now have duplicate titles is a very big project in itself + all resources through support when authors have to report other authors.
I don’t think there even needs to be a policy change. The policy already says to avoid lists of keywords in titles, and Envato usually just do what they wish without any prior warning anyway like they did when they axed credits. I’m sure once authors start getting soft-rejects right, left and centre, they will stop pretty quickly and eventually, everyone will get the message.
Oh I see! haha Crikey what a noob! So you’re saying that the “trusted” authors will be able to upload with a legal name, then change it after… Man! Envato have so many caveats and silly loopholes. I guess I’m lucky that most of the music tracks I make for stock are already named for me, or perhaps I sould try re-naming my latest track “Liszt Liebestraum No 3 was Liszt Liebestraum No 3”!
As one who dabbles a little in the Title Is Title game, I’d just like to say that it would be far preferable if Envato would prohibit it. But as long as it is an effective method of pushing a track toward the top of search results, there’s absolutely no reason NOT to do it, if it works. (And it does not, by the way, work on every keyword.)
As long as the rules are absurd, might as well play by the rules.
haha Crikey what a noob! So you’re saying that the “trusted” authors will be able to upload with a legal name, then change it after… Man! Envato have so many caveats and silly loopholes. I guess I’m lucky that most of the music tracks I make for stock are already named for me, or perhaps I sould try re-naming my latest track “Liszt Liebestraum No 3 was Liszt Liebestraum No 3”!