How much traffic is respectable?

kygarden · January 31, 2012

I'm not pushing sales, I'm not a 'pro photographer' (but I do pay for a pro acct at Smugmug) and I don't promote my site other than the keywords I add, which of course get picked up in Google searches. For someone like me, would 120,748 photo/video views (just about all photo views) in the last 30 days be a respectable amount of traffic? It seems like quite a lot of views to me. Just trying to figure out where I am compared to some others...whether this is a lot of traffic, mediocre or lame :-)

Wendee · January 31, 2012

120,748 views in 30 days seems like a lot to me, but I can't honestly say how this compares with other photographers or where you'd fall in total traffic. But that seems respectable to me!

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BradfordBenn · January 31, 2012

I am not sure I even broke 1,000 views last calendar year. So I would say very respectable.

kygarden · February 1, 2012

Thanks :-) It seems most of the traffic is coming from people searching for the Nikon V1. My V1 gallery is the #1 Google search result. I think the visitors are researching the camera (since it's a new product). I'm definitely happy with the traffic. Proof that keywords do work/get seen by search engines.

SamirD · February 2, 2012

kygarden wrote: »

I'm not pushing sales, I'm not a 'pro photographer' (but I do pay for a pro acct at Smugmug) and I don't promote my site other than the keywords I add, which of course get picked up in Google searches. For someone like me, would 120,748 photo/video views (just about all photo views) in the last 30 days be a respectable amount of traffic? It seems like quite a lot of views to me. Just trying to figure out where I am compared to some others...whether this is a lot of traffic, mediocre or lame :-)

That is quite good traffic.

I regularly promote my galleries in person and have a following of about 20,000 people locally in my genre. All my galleries are unlisted and are linked from my main website. In the peak months, I see 300,000+, but a normal month is about 100,000. There's people that have 500k months regularly on SM, but I think they're in the top 10 sites on SM.

kygarden · February 3, 2012

SamirD wrote: »

That is quite good traffic.

I regularly promote my galleries in person and have a following of about 20,000 people locally in my genre. All my galleries are unlisted and are linked from my main website. In the peak months, I see 300,000+, but a normal month is about 100,000. There's people that have 500k months regularly on SM, but I think they're in the top 10 sites on SM.

Thanks Samir

SamirD · February 5, 2012

You're welcome.

Keep it up!

One of the things to do is look at your referrals. Find your linked images and see if there's conversations attached to them that you can get involved in. That helps with promotion big-time.

stlracing · February 7, 2012

Date	Photos	Videos	All
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2012/01/09	104838	0	104838
2012/01/10	62132	0	62132
2012/01/11	60801	0	60801
2012/01/12	58360	0	58360
2012/01/13	51245	0	51245
2012/01/14	59714	0	59714
2012/01/15	69188	0	69188
2012/01/16	51205	0	51205
2012/01/17	49147	0	49147
2012/01/18	48373	0	48373
2012/01/19	50699	0	50699
2012/01/20	48081	0	48081
2012/01/21	50914	0	50914
2012/01/22	58683	0	58683
2012/01/23	56771	0	56771
2012/01/24	56298	0	56298
2012/01/25	59386	0	59386
2012/01/26	64415	0	64415
2012/01/27	51453	0	51453
2012/01/28	56690	0	56690
2012/01/29	81227	0	81227
2012/01/30	55768	0	55768
2012/01/31	43286	0	43286
2012/02/01	38467	0	38467
2012/02/02	38114	0	38114
2012/02/03	59358	1	59359
2012/02/04	63452	0	63452
2012/02/05	50818	0	50818
2012/02/06	39914	0	39914
2012/02/07	6251	0	6251

	Photos	Videos	All
Total	1747305	1	1747306

SamirD · February 13, 2012

Totally awesome! What's your sales percentage?

Kikoprice · February 13, 2012

Thats the real question isnt it? Views to sales ratio, otherwise your just running a free photo album.

kygarden · February 14, 2012

I don't mind running a free photo album. As long as I make a little here and there (not from just smugmug) to pay for my annual subscription, I'm happy. I'm not really into photography to get rich. If it were to happen somehow, I wouldn't complain though ;-)

stlracing · February 14, 2012

We get a check from smugmug monthly.... Our intent is also using as a photo album as well. We sell banner type advertising for our smugmug site as well.

HoofClix · February 14, 2012

This thread piqued my interest, and alas, it seems that I have never really looked at that statistics page in Smugmug! I don't add keywords to any of my pics or galleries, just leave them auto-generated by the title. Hence I would have thought that most people would have been referred via the fact that they just know where to come find their pics after a horse show, BUT, as it turns out, Google is the largest referrer.

I have another business web site, and no matter what the visits are, I am told that a lot of the visits are just the bots crawling my page.. Not sure if that's true..

Mostly I have been looking at the Facebook Insights portal for my site, as it is a good indication of the actual action taking place (besides the actual orders!!)

SamirD · February 15, 2012

stlracing wrote: »

We get a check from smugmug monthly.... Our intent is also using as a photo album as well. We sell banner type advertising for our smugmug site as well.

I do the same thing.

What's your site url? I'd love to check it out.

How much traffic is respectable?

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