Just wondering what people think of lightboxes on iStock vs UBB links vs. neither.
Do people believe its worth the effort? A lot of the bigger contributors do take the time to do it, and I have up until now.
I guess it depends how specialized your collection is. I have a fairly big collection of penguin images, almost a hundred, and each image has a lightbox link to my penguin lightbox. The lightbox has because of that now almost 6000 views. I am pretty sure I got a couple of sales through that. On the other hand I have only a quite small sandwich collection. I did the same there. And the lightbox is older than a year I think, with only 23 images and got just over 200 views. I might have gotten sales through the lightbox as well, but if then only a small amount. If I would have only five images from one subject, I think I would not really bother.
On the other hand you could get together with another contributor who has a similar subject and make lightbox with him or her together. Not only will you increase exposure for both of you, but you will also make the lightbox public, which means it will be searchable through the lightbox search function.
