Author Topic: A way to check your image views? and images not showing up... (Read 6054 times)

lola · « **on:** March 10, 2011, 00:38 »

Hi, where do you go to see your image views at 123rf? Is that even a feature they have?

Also, my approved images are taking like days - to a week - to show up in my port, what is up? (this happened with my first upload - I had to email them to see what the problem was then too.)

CD123 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 10, 2011, 19:34 »

Hi Showgirl

As far as I know, they do not have that functionality.

Availability of approved images differs widely between sites. Some take a week or longer to update their public servers (also depends on the amount of images they need to upload). After they are available on the public servers it can take up to a month before your search engines pic up on your images and can you only see a real increase in activity (views) after that.

You will have to learn some patience with this stuff

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lola · « **Reply #2 on:** March 11, 2011, 01:59 »

cd123 - I haven't read that info anywhere - is there a thread or two on these forums where I can read about that further - the server/search "thing"?

The reason that it was bothering me, is that I'm with several sites and this one takes the longest to post approved images in my port - so I thought there was a problem.

Could what you said also be the reason why I have zero views on a couple of sites where images have been up for only a couple of weeks?

CD123 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 11, 2011, 06:46 »

Hi Lola

Not sure if there is specific thread. If you can look-up/search your images without being logged in, is mostly the best way to be sure they are visible to buyers (loaded to the public server/indexed).

As soon as they are available on the site, you should be able to start getting views. Google and other search engines are only additional help to route extra traffic/views to your images and not all sites are well ranked on Google to get the full advantage of it.

Further, not all website's stats are accurate (I have sold an image on a site which still today indicates no views). Some sites count the "bots" (computer programs) used by the search engines like Google to index their info as views (probably like Canstock - else I have to believe I had 12 000 views over the past 3 months).

I was advised by the clever ones here not to pay to much attention to views, as it can be totally distorted (e.g. a site like Fotolia shows very little views, but has very good sales)

Hope that helps. Maybe some of the older hands around can add to this (or disagree).

lola · « **Reply #4 on:** March 11, 2011, 16:20 »

Thanks CD, I will do that - would you suggest checking the keywords or titles of the images or what?

I've read more than once that people check for that on their own, so I guess it's time I start as well.

CD123 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 12, 2011, 06:55 »

On the site itself I would suggest search your user name (without being logged in). If you have many images, user + some keywords (even word from title). If that does not work on a spesific site, go for your most unique keywords (if the site have public lightboxes and you created some, look for you lightbox en check the content).

On Google, I normally go for a combination of user name, title and keywords (it varies very much from one site to another of what info Google can obtain from the page with your image).

lola · « **Reply #6 on:** March 12, 2011, 15:35 »

Thanks CD

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