Metadata Guidelines - Must read

Dedicating some valuable time to use keyworkds your resources is essential. By using adequate keywords, users will find your content easily and you will get more downloads. At the same time, it will speed up the revision process and your content is likely to be published faster.

For this reason, we have prepared these rejection reasons guidelines so you can optimize the metadata of your resources.

Reasons for rejection - Title

• Length
• Wrong title
• Title contains file type
• Spelling/grammar errors
• Title must be written in English
• Title contain numbers or dates
• Wrong format

Reasons for rejection - Keywords

• Keywords do not relate to the resource
• Spamming
• Wrong format
• Keywords must be written in English
• Wrong number of keywords
• Spelling/grammar errors

Reasons for rejection - Title

Titles must be coherent and relevant. Your keywords must answer to the questions who, what, when and where in order to describe the resource clearly and concisely in one sentence.

When choosing a title for your content, make sure it refers to the resource’s concept and theme. Also, avoid providing too long descriptions in the title.

Title too long/short

Your resources may be rejected if the title is too long or too short:

• Long titles: the title contains unnecessary information or repetitive keywords, or perhaps you included more than one title separated by periods.

• Short titles: the title does not describe the resource in detail.

Our recommendation: set the title's length to 35-100 characters.

Example: long title

YES Colorful tropical nature background with hand-drawn palm leaves

NO Colorful tropical nature background with hand-drawn palm leaves. Wild nature.

Example: short title

YES Tropical background with hand-drawn palm leaves

NO Tropical background

Example: Long title with a list of keywords

YES Abstract music festival poster with 3D shapes.

NO Abstract music festival poster, flyer, template, brochure. Party poster for concert with 3D vector shapes.

Wrong title

The keywords included in the title do not describe the resource properly or they do not relate to the resource, they might be irrelevant and lead to wrong results when searching.

Our recommendation: Try to avoid long descriptions or including details in your title, it has to describe the image or concept you see briefly and clearly.

YES Checklist with businessman in flat design

NO Businessman

NO Business concept

YES Selection of cute hand-drawn babies

NO Hand-drawn birthday card

YES Couple in love with Christmas hats and presents

NO Couple in love with Valentine’s Day presents

YES Landing page with hand-drawn young adventurer

YES Nature landing page template

NO Landing page design of hand-drawn young adventurer with binoculars, backpack and striped T-shirt walking through the jungle

YES Business circular infographic timeline with gradient effect

NO Circular infographic, it can be used for a vectorial design of a businessbrochure, a business catalog, business presentation.

NO Circular infographic timeline. Infographic icons. Four steps infographic. Infographic element.

Title contains file type

Titles must not refer to the file type (i.e. EPS10, PSD, JPG)

Example: the title refers to the file type

YES Music festival poster with instruments in flat design

NO Music festival poster with instruments in flat design EPS10

Spelling / grammar errors

The title contains spelling or grammar errors.

Example: spelling errors

YES Set of hand-drawn leaves

NO Set of hand-drawn leafs

Example: grammar errors

YES School supplies on blue surface

NO School supplies on surface blue

Title must be written in English

Titles must be written in English. If your resources have a title in any other language, they will be rejected.

Title contains numbers or dates

Do not include numbers or dates in the title of the resource (except for festivities, i.e. 4th July).

Example: Title with a list of numbers

YES Gerbera flower with March calendar on a table

NO Gerbera flower with calendar of the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 of March on a table

Example: Title with dates

NO 23-03-19 Gerbera flower with March calendar on a table

NO March 26, 2019: Gerbera flower with March calendar on a table

Wrong format

Make sure the title does not include any special or strange characters.

Example: Wrong format (strange characters)

YES Landing page template of creative process in isometric style

NO #landingpage template of “creative process” in @isometric style

Reasons for rejection - Keywords

• Keywords do not relate to the resource
• Irrelevant keywords
• Spamming
• Wrong format
• Keywords must be written in English
• Wrong number of keywords
• Spelling/grammar errors

Keywords are essential for proper localization of the resources on our platform. Therefore, it is important that you take your time to usekeywords properly and make sure they are precise and relevant and accurately describe the theme.

Keywords do not relate to the resource

Keywords do not relate to the resource’s content, they do not describe it properly, are not related to the resource’s theme or format or might show wrong results when searching for the resource.

Our recommendation: Try to use your keywordsto depict only what you can see on your resource or its concept.

YES cat, feline, animal, pet, kitten, interior, sat.

NO mouse, play, friend, decoration, ornament, furniture

YES woman, smiling, youth, fashion, dancing

NO woman, smiling, youth, sensual, sexy, fashion

Example: keywords are not related to the resource's format

YES landing page, template, web template, teamwork, flat design

NO background, backdrop, texture, cover, brochure, banner, symbol, frame, card, invitation

YES businesswoman, job, professional, occupation, business people, outside, corporative, work, enterprising

NO city, happy people, hands, hairstyle, building, architecture, jpg, photography

YES wedding, couple, marriage, wife, husband, lovers, relationship, love

NO artwork, vector, color, design, graphic design, young, cute, happy, concept, blond, dark-haired

Example: resources featuring food where ingredients have been added to the keywords.

YES cookie, dessert, sweet, star, food, tasty, shape

NO butter, flour, vanilla, cinnamon, milk

Example: resources featuring a season (spring) that include the name of the other three seasons in the keywords (summer, winter, autumn)

YES spring, springtime, flowers, copy space, nature, petal

NO spring, summer, autumn, winter

Example: calendar with a list of keywords

YES calendar, autumn, season, seasonal

NO 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

Spamming

The repetition of words in your keywords is considered spam. There are three different cases that we identify as spammy keywords:

• Use of repeated words: Do not repeat the same keywords over and over.
• Spam in campaigns: Your content will be rejected if you use keywords related to a campaign in order to participate in it, but the words are not related to the resource.
• Colors: Using all the colors in the resource as keywordis also considered spamming. Instead, use only the main color of the resource or the keyword “colorful” if colors are an important element in the composition.

Example: Spam due to repetition of keywords

YES instagram story, insta, template, social network, sale, promotion, discount, instagram story offer,

NO instagram story, instagram stories, stories, story, insta, insta story, instagram, instagram post, instagram frame, frame instagram, instagram template

Example: Spam in campaign (summer)

YES winter, cold, landscape, river, nature, snow

NO summer, winter, snow, pine tree, river, landscape

Example: Color spam

YES colorful, business card, template, shape, company

NO green, orange, yellow, red, white, purple, blue

Wrong format

Keywords are rejected due to wrong format when:

• they include special characters (? ; * # { } = ’ ...); keywords are not separated correctly. You must separate each keywordwith a comma.; a keyword is formed by two words without separation (abstractbackground); you add determiners, prepositions or pronouns.

YES landing page, template, business, corporate, startup, rocket

NO landingpage; startup; rocket; #corporative, space.

Keywords must be written in English

Make sure the keywordsare in English. If they are in a different language they will be rejected, except for proper nouns such as the names of festivities, typical food or places, but always using the English spelling.

Wrong number of keywords

Your resources must have a minimum of 5 keywordsand a maximum of 50. However, it is important that you include only the relevant keywords, there is no need to reach the maximum of 50 keywords(20 keywordsare enough as long as they are relevant). More keywordsare not equal to more downloads.

YES reading, literature, knowledge, learning, read, book, education, student, culture, hobby, boy, young, flat design, illustration

NO hat, cactus, coffee, chair, red boots, T-shirt, smile, predesigned image, character, human, coffee shop, bar, clothes, fashion, learning, student, literature, high school, office, work, workspace, desk, man, smile, animated drawing, home, hands holding a book, brown hair, decoration, room, jeans, modern, hipster, entertaining, activity, pink wall, sitting, quiet, wool hat, short sleeves, big desk

Spelling / grammar errors

If your keywords present spelling or grammar errors, they will be rejected.

YES business, real estate, house, coins, keychain

NO busines, real state, house, coins, kechain