The pics with the most hits on my pages are the two most highly rated: "Birmingham Gentleman" with 26,000 hits and "Snowdrops" (a flower pic that has been up much longer) with 49,000 hits. Paul On Feb 23, 2007, at 11:41 PM, ann sanfedele wrote:
> Tom C wrote: > >> Strange. Many individual photos are untitled. Maybe it's because >> they're >> in folder of a particular name, like Alaska. >> >> >> >> Tom C. >> >> >> >> > The photo of mine that has gotten the most hits has the names of the > people in it as it's title. > > Alfred Butts is one of them. (The inventor of Scrabble) It is far > from > the "best" photo > I've shown on the site. > > ann > > >> >> >>> From: Paul Stenquist <[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 19:47:56 -0500 >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > 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
