There's a very different lesson to be learned here as well and perhaps it's for the powers-that-be at SmugMug, who can also be looking at "their" competition.
Other pro sites designed for high volume sales of photography, stock or otherwise, combine the work of all associated photographers.
When I'm shopping an image I will visit a site like GettyOne, open my lightbox page and enter a keyword and get back hits for every image that matches, regardless of the photographer.
In the SmugMug world, everyone is competing with each other. If I'm shopping an image do you think I really have time to google my search to find everyone? Hell no!
Maybe SmugMug can create a way to superimpose a search engine that will return hits for images in the same way I've outlined.
THAT is a very good pont and needs posting as a feature request! ( might get missed down here ;-) )
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THAT is a very good pont and needs posting as a feature request! ( might get missed down here ;-) )
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