Like some said, it can be due to search engines picking up on the title. I've also found that the first shot in a folder gets more views than any other. Don't know why. Pics that make it into the "highest rated" gallery get a lot of hits. Paul On Feb 23, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Tom C wrote:
> 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
