Choosing saleable images

cycleman

hi,

I'm reviewing my website, and want to go through all my galleries with an intent to place sellable images in one place (like "now showing") and other pics - like those that I want to share with others, such as travel pictures, etc. in another place (like "travel and others").

I'm wondering if fellow pros have some methods or approaches to determining which of your images fall into the sellable category. and do you also, in this process, have others beside yourselves look at your images to provide you with their feedback and if this is helpful.

how does one be objective in this process? thanks.:ivar

dick louderman

scole

Here's my approach- use your Smugmug statistics.

For all the photos I put up onto my site, I track the small, medium, and large views of the images in a database. I don't count thumbnail views because those basically happen when someone visits a gallery. To me any image view "small" or larger implies that a visitor had an interest in the photo and clicked on it to get a better look.

Now, one month's statistics don't mean too much so that's why I'm putting it into a database so I can look at longer term trends.

One tip- if you're going to do this, you HAVE to capture the information before the 1st of the month. Sadly, the individual image stats are not available for the previous month (though the summary stats by gallery are).

To transfer the numbers at my leisure, I print each gallery stats page to a PDF (using the free PDF reDirect).

Good luck!

Steve

cycleman

scole wrote:

Here's my approach- use your Smugmug statistics.

For all the photos I put up onto my site, I track the small, medium, and large views of the images in a database. I don't count thumbnail views because those basically happen when someone visits a gallery. To me any image view "small" or larger implies that a visitor had an interest in the photo and clicked on it to get a better look.

Now, one month's statistics don't mean too much so that's why I'm putting it into a database so I can look at longer term trends.

One tip- if you're going to do this, you HAVE to capture the information before the 1st of the month. Sadly, the individual image stats are not available for the previous month (though the summary stats by gallery are).

To transfer the numbers at my leisure, I print each gallery stats page to a PDF (using the free PDF reDirect).

Good luck!

Steve

hi, Steve,
thanks for the response. what you said made sense. however I have been getting absolutely no traffic on my site. I'm just getting into the business of attaching keywords etc to all my images. hopefully that will help.

dick louderman