Do I need to redo my site for encourage sales?

zoomerzoomer Registered Users Posts: 3,688 Major grins
edited July 23, 2006 in Mind Your Own Business
I started my site a little over a year go and have a LOT of nature photos on there.
Now that I have turned it into a pro site a couple months ago and am trying to sell photos I wonder if I need to separate my site that has so many photos and just keep it for my own photo use, like for forums and sharing.
Then I would start an entirely new pro site. My control panel says I had 32,000 hits this month and it seems with that many hits I should be selling some photos.

I try to reference potential customers to the high resolution gallerys for print sales but it is obviously not working with O sales.

Any feedback advice would be greatly appreciated. http://alloutdoor.smugmug.com/
alloutdoor.smugmug.com is my site.
Thanks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21695902@N06/
http://500px.com/Shockey
alloutdoor.smugmug.com
http://aoboudoirboise.smugmug.com/

Comments

  • xtnomadxtnomad Registered Users Posts: 340 Major grins
    edited July 23, 2006
    post a link to your site.
    xtnomad :wink
  • xtnomadxtnomad Registered Users Posts: 340 Major grins
    edited July 23, 2006
    Saw your site name as I posted above. You can add it as a signture to your post and it will be highlighted.

    You have some amazing shots on your site, I see how you have so many fans. One thing you should do is go into customize gallery settings and turn off the links to forums, all some one has to do is click on it and they can add it to thier site or forum and you do not make a sale but they are using your photo. This could explain your high stats. On my site I do not show large and I proof mark but this might not work for you. The large image can be taken and prints made from it. I had that problem when I first started. Also I would turn off key words from showing on your home page I think you can still see it in the control panel. Other than that I think your site looks great. thumb.gif
    xtnomad :wink
  • videooppvideoopp Registered Users Posts: 103 Big grins
    edited July 23, 2006
    You have some great shots there! These should be very sellable, but more as stock then as prints, I would think. From another thread that I glanced at, it seems that smugmug has been thinking of the idea of giving users the option to sell digital downloads for Stock Use, but have so far held off. I wonder what their concerns are. It seems like a lot of photographers would appreciate a site that alows you to set your own prices of stock.
    Frank Spangler
    Business: www.panopro.com
    Stock Images: www.worldviewimages.com (Smugmug Site)
    Stock Video: https://www.pond5.com/artist/videoopp
    Blog: www.untotheleast.com
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