No of course not. :-) Each photo displayed on photo.net has a number of times viewed field, that they suppposedly maintain.
The PESO I displayed yesterday now has a count of 37, which seems reasonable. But 700+ on photos that have no value to anyone but myself, is weird. Tom C. >From: Jack Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Photo.net Observation >Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:26:14 -0800 (PST) > >I gather you have purchased search words to "get" people to look at >your photos. <LOL> >I went through that, and about $300 a month, for a year and a half >before it sank in that I wasn't making a profit. Actually, my wife was >good enough to point it out. >Price/hit kept going up and my 'grandfathered in' lower price just >didn't get them enough attention. >OST, you're possibly not talking about website hits.(?) > >Jack >--- Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When looking at the Number of Times Viewed statistic for some of my > > photos, > > I'm surprised. Many photos that are of no interest to anyone other > > than > > family or friends, have no title, and are mere snapshots, are showing > > up as > > having been viewed 700+ times. That seems quite high to me. > > > > I can understand it if it was a photo I asked for a critique on, or > > if it > > was one I posted as a PESO, but the ones in question are not. > > > > I'm wondering if some sort of automated crawler exists that could be > > inflating the numbers. The images I'm referring to have been out > > there > > about two years. I can undertsand that number of hits if random > > individuals > > came across the gallery and clicked on ones they liked. But I can't > > believe > > 700+ random individuals would click on those I've described. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Tom C. > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
