Anyone else notice a crazy amount of views on new files? Had 3 pics accepted just 5 hours ago and they have 679, 414 and 292 views respectively. Some pics accepted last week still have only 40 - 50 views and others even less. Maybe some mistake?

"They're working on it".

 

I thought I was photographer of the day or something 

I wonder how that affects the best match placement. Having a ton of views on a new file with no sales probably isn't favorable.

A bit of topic but about views and placement, someone was saying on this forum how editing your file for keywords or to add UBB tags effects placement negatively. It must be really serious - i edited one file for UBB tags as soon as it was accepted and views stopped completely after that. 2 - 3 weeks later and the file is stuck with only the initial views it had when i edited.

 

Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on July 01, 2010, 06:17

I wonder how that affects the best match placement. Having a ton of views on a new file with no sales probably isn't favorable.

Maybe that's the point.

Maybe, but the OP seemed concerned about crazy views, not best match.

Can anyone confirm that editing keywords after being accepted leads to a worse ranking?

I've never heard this and I've never experienced it.

Thanks for posting about this.  I noticed the same.  Three files approved and within a few minutes they all had over 700 views each. 

And yes, the main issue here is how that affects the best match placement (badly!).  Otherwise who would care?

Quote from: lisafx on July 01, 2010, 13:00

Thanks for posting about this.  I noticed the same.  Three files approved and within a few minutes they all had over 700 views each.  

And yes, the main issue here is how that affects the best match placement (badly!).  Otherwise who would care?

My exact worry as well, that many views without sales can't be good for best match placing and i surely hope they'll get reset.
Another thing crossing my mind... the site's buggy as hell (earlier tonight buyers got another error msg for a while, views get screwed up, thumbnails don't show, stats don't update etc etc), who guarantees the downloads and commission counter works as it should? Maybe it's paranoia but all the above things don't really add to my confidence.

Yes lots of bugs these days. IS announced that the site change is imminent and it appears that they didn't learn to implement site changes correctly. It now seems that they keep messing with it over a longer period of time. This is quite upsetting.

I had quite a bunch of 503 or 505 errors with the little guy and his concrete parachute on it. They did well on that one because it makes me laugh every time I see that little poor fellow. My acceptance average is now at 0% and now the views-issue. Not to mention the problems with the uploads lately and the broken video processor for NTSC and PAL clips.

I can't believe I'm talking about the industry leader having such problems. Hopefully they CAN sort it out in a timely manner...  

... None of those are what I would call confidence-builders.

But at least we're not paranoid 

i have 1534 views for my new image, i felt sad when saw so many view but zero download..

I think this view thing is an electronic disease that's going around. If so IS probably caught it from Veer. My Veer views have been WAY UP for a few months while 2010 sales for me remain at ZERO.

I hope there's a cure discovered before it spreads to SS, DT, FT, etc.

  It's the new "make you feel good program".

I have 2 images accepted and in few hours one have 432 and other 471 views?!?
what is going on with them???