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1. Dont think so.
2. Dont think so.

are views worthwhile? 

if views are directly related to sales (in most cases) isn't the sales a good enough stat to see what is popular.

Sorry but I have to disagree with you guys.

Views are basically how the marketing and advertising industries work.  TV uses the Nielson ratings.  Advertisers use similar stats, as well as web pages (such as Google).  Companies want to know how much foot traffic they are getting.  I want to know the same thing.

While sales are the most important, views are second.

For one, I can compare different sites with the # of views.  For example, I have had my images on one site and my most popular image has had about 200 views.  I just uploaded the same image to another site two weeks ago, and it has already had over 200 in two weeks.  So this shows me the traffic for each site.

Second, if an image is getting lots of foot traffic, then it will probably get a lot of sales as well.

Third, if I market myself in some way (by participating on forums, by creating a website with a link, etc), I can track how well that marketing will affect views (and ultimately sales).