Yeah, I have heard that if they (buyer) don't view than no possible sale but other than that there is no real correlation.  Thus I don't follow zooms or views...

I guess the buyers just zoomed right by.

     had  2  zooms  on  2  pics  but  nothing  so  far.  maybe  that's  not  enough  or  i  still  have  a  small  port  or  something.

I have 89 files, been on Alamy for five months, had my first sale in late April.

$1.00.  Woo-hoo!

In the last year I've had 80 sales and 240 zooms, so one sale for every three zooms. It used to be more like one in 10 before they made the un-zoomed images more visible.  I think this is a more useful way of looking at zooms than trying to work out whether each zoom has led to a sale. If your images are getting zoomed then at least you know they are attracting attention and that will apply to people whose zooms are not recorded, too, so if the sample is large enough the statistical average should hold pretty firm.
If you get pushed back in the search then your zooms will drop and so will your prospect of sales, so there is a real link between the two.

The uploading is tedious but I've managed to get 4,000+  there. The returns aren't huge, but I just keep plodding along, there are some $1 sales among the 80, so I only made about $1,500 there in the year (the previous 12 months were a bit better) - that's my cut of the earnings, not the total sales value which you often see people quote. 

It's nice being able to upload stuff that isn't suitable for the micros.

Also sometimes the sale comes a long time after the zoom. I've seen me having a zoom, then weeks later, a search on the file number, then weeks later another file number search, then weeks later a sale.
Of course, I have no proof that all of these are the same person, but it seems reasonably likely.

But an average of 18.75 is good. And like you say, they take a lot of content that is not typical for other sites.

I will make an effort, but the next 12 months I need to focus on the sites that promise faster returns.

Alamy has been cursed for me for over 2 months, now....

Really unbelievable, 2700 filese, I used to sell 2-3 a month when my port was much smaller and now 0!
Only 10 zooms or so in the last month and no sales...very depressing!

I used to have little zooms, but did get a sale here and there. For the last 3 months, I have gotten more zooms then ever, but no more sales. Weird.

The same for me too

Btw, is there (on forum) any place where you show (names of) sold images? Where can I find what is selling?