Author Topic: LuckyOliver Enters Midstock Market - Allows Some Photos to Be Custom Priced (Read 24986 times)

GeoPappas · « **Reply #50 on:** April 23, 2007, 07:42 »

If you allow the Sideshow to also encompass placement in the regular search, then you will end up with the uber-portfolios hogging the first pages of most searches. This would be the anti-thesis of one of LuckyOliver's main themes - to help the amateur photographer break into the microstock business.

I think that allowing Sideshow images to hog the first few pages of the sort order would be a death-knell to most of the other artists. In turn, many artists would probably just delete their portfolios (since they wouldn't have a chance of selling much).

leaf · « **Reply #51 on:** April 23, 2007, 09:08 »

Quote from: maunger on April 23, 2007, 05:01

I've thought of that Leaf, but shutterstock doesn't put in their ad in google's adwords to catch those people who put in the search term of 'shutterstock' - the put in their ad with a ton of different search terms hoping to get those people who are searching for something other than their name where google won't be putting their site at the top of the first page of the list of results.

I have to disagree

Since shutterstock purchased ads on the word 'shutterstock' they are obviously looking to catch people who type the word 'shutterstock' into google. Adwords only show up for words you specifically type in.

I agree somewhat with you geopappas about the fact that the side show people may hog too much space if they images were place in both areas - however being the fact that only 8 images are shown in the sideshow at a time - i don't feel like they are hogging too much room from the regular search results.

Pixart · « **Reply #52 on:** April 23, 2007, 09:42 »

Just wondering... Once you enter The Sideshow the image isn't removed from the regular search is it? Does it still appear in both places and rotate through The Sideshow?

I definitely like this feature - I may never have enough sales to participate though. Once LuckyO takes off, and I believe they will, I fear The Sideshow will become overpopulated though and it will be difficult to float to the top of a search though. Hopefully these images are still be in the regular search.

GeoPappas · « **Reply #53 on:** April 23, 2007, 10:32 »

Quote from: leaf on April 23, 2007, 09:08

I agree somewhat with you geopappas about the fact that the side show people may hog too much space if they images were place in both areas - however being the fact that only 8 images are shown in the sideshow at a time - i don't feel like they are hogging too much room from the regular search results.

But if you click on the "More Sideshow images" link, then you are taken to a full-page of Sideshow ONLY images which will display 50 images/page.

sharpshot · « **Reply #54 on:** April 23, 2007, 10:33 »

If LO take off, they could charge more for the sideshow photos. That would keep the numbers down.

I wonder if other sites will try this? Featurepics let me set my own prices for free and pay me 70%, so paying LO to get 50% doesn't seem like a good deal unless the sideshow photos sell much better than the main site.

leaf · « **Reply #55 on:** April 23, 2007, 12:16 »

Quote from: Pixart on April 23, 2007, 09:42

Just wondering... Once you enter The Sideshow the image isn't removed from the regular search is it? Does it still appear in both places and rotate through The Sideshow?

An image is either in the regular search or in the sideshow. It doesn't show up in both search areas.

If you put it in the side show you are taking it out of the regular search results.

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