A million views a month......

Fishead

I really have no idea how it came to pass, but a couple galleries of snow shots I took recently have been getting unbelieveable viewing numbers. The area where I live (Ocean City Maryland) doesn't get much snow so perhaps thats the reason? Normally the galleries get a few thousand views per month. Has anyone else ever experienced an image viewing flurry that seems inexplictable? I'm stoked but perplexed! Still getting 40,000 views/day a month later....crazy! Any insight into how this occurs? This is one of the two galleries.

http://www.assateaguephotos.com/Other/A-Few-Snow-ShotsJan-31/11114154_hPYvi#778585149_qMK6K

ColoradoSkier

Fishead wrote:

I really have no idea how it came to pass, but a couple galleries of snow shots I took recently have been getting unbelieveable viewing numbers. The area where I live (Ocean City Maryland) doesn't get much snow so perhaps thats the reason? Normally the galleries get a few thousand views per month. Has anyone else ever experienced an image viewing flurry that seems inexplictable? I'm stoked but perplexed! Still getting 40,000 views/day a month later....crazy! Any insight into how this occurs?

Link to the gallery in question?

Foques

I have seen that when some of my pictures were linked in other places, to other blogs etc.

Say, I have my banner sitting on one of the sport blogs, and I have the count of viewers on it way above 10000 / month. It is in a hidden folder, so nobody can see it by logging into a gallery.

zoomer

Send a mail to the help desk and have them check it out.
40,000 hits a day does not sound right.

Gary Peterson Photography

Increased sales as well?

Fishead wrote:

I really have no idea how it came to pass, but a couple galleries of snow shots I took recently have been getting unbelieveable viewing numbers. The area where I live (Ocean City Maryland) doesn't get much snow so perhaps thats the reason? Normally the galleries get a few thousand views per month. Has anyone else ever experienced an image viewing flurry that seems inexplictable? I'm stoked but perplexed! Still getting 40,000 views/day a month later....crazy! Any insight into how this occurs? This is one of the two galleries.

http://www.assateaguephotos.com/Other/A-Few-Snow-ShotsJan-31/11114154_hPYvi#778585149_qMK6K

Has the number of views increased sales as well?

Kevin Kramer

i heart Ocean City, MD.. I'm hoping to go sometime this summer..

Fishead

Sales
The gallery was created for "local" folks to enjoy, never opened it to sales as I didn't think there was anything special there. The buy button has been on now for about 5 days made about a hundred dollars profit.....which is fine but doesn't seem like much for all those views! Still happy for the exposure, can't hurt! The most viewed and purchased shot was this one:

Svennie

You might want to check local news websites, especially when the snow has been news. They probably have a direct link to the image within a page. These views count for smugmug stats as well. I see this happen when I post an image here in the forums: the photo has more hits then the other photos in the same gallery.

Hopefully Smugmug will give referral stats someday soon as well. Then it is easy to track the source. Maybe SM-support can help you with this.