Received the dreaded "similar content" rejection for first time on my last submission..

Listen up, ladies and gentlemen. In my opinion, the system completely disregards the location of the photo, as described in the title. Here's an example: a series of photos of the town hall and market square, taken in city X (which isn't represented at all in the Adobe collection), were rejected due to "similar content" – that's very strange. Someone looking for a photo of the town hall from city X won't be satisfied with a photo from city Y just because it's similar. They'll look elsewhere. I don't understand this Adobe policy?

Thanks for the comments and suggestions all. 

I'm familiar with the similar content guidelines.  These images are distinct from each other as well as the general database.  It just seems arbitrary.  Very definitely not spamming.

I'm divided between just moving on or maybe waiting a bit and resubmitting them. This is a hobby for me, I don't want to spend a bunch of time and frustration on something that Adobe isn't interested in doing anymore.  

Another oddity - on a prior set of images I had submitted - also just four images - they were all accepted except for one .. well, that's ok, but it also wasn't rejected either.  Three months later now and it is still sitting in the queue waiting - untouched.  The four I just submitted "went around" it in the queue before getting their "similar content" stamp of disapproval.  

That image in the weird submission limbo here was long ago accepted at the other major stock sites and has already earned a few licences.  It's like Adobe isn't even trying anymore.  I don't get it.

Thanks again - sometimes this is also just a good place to come a vent a bit.

You are competing with over 800 million other assets in Stock inventory. Below is what Stock has to say about similar content.  

• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/similar-content-guidelines.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/how-to-submit-distinct-content.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/help/find-similar-assets.html

Finding unique subjects to represent is much more challenging now than it was a few years ago. Try submitting to other services with different acceptance standards. 

Some times the similars rejections just make no sense at all. I've had photographs rejected for similars when I'm quite sure that the are true unique, both in my portfolio and across the entire database. Edit slightly, wait a while and resubmit. As @daniellei4510 said, if they're rejected again, just move on. You don't want to be accused of spamming the database.

You are not alone. To date, I've had 380 assets rejected for similar content. I've resubmitted a few with minor changes, more unique or reordered keywords and titles, and some were accepted on the second attempt. The rejections seem, and can be, quite arbitrary and random at times, but I also continue to have assets accepted. Sometimes even assets that I felt for certain would be rejected for similar content. If an asset is rejected a second time, I move on, particularly if I am in agreement that the subject in question is oversaturated. I believe most contributors here feel that it is AI that is making such decisions on the basis of keywords and titles. As such, I avoid, or put last, Adobe's suggested keywords.