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How to gracefully close a personal stock site
steheap:
I spent a lot of time building my own personal stock site with the Symbiostock plugin for wordpress, but it is time to close it down. So few sales although it does rank well for individual images on Google. But I don't want all those incoming visitors to see a 403 page missing notice. How have those of you who have taken down your personal websites done it and what did you replace it with?
Steve
marthamarks:
--- Quote from: steheap on August 04, 2019, 09:04 ---I spent a lot of time building my own personal stock site with the Symbiostock plugin for wordpress, but it is time to close it down. So few sales although it does rank well for individual images on Google. But I don't want all those incoming visitors to see a 403 page missing notice. How have those of you who have taken down your personal websites done it and what did you replace it with?
Steve
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I was one who who got excited about Symbiostock, took out a new URL, and spent a ton of time building my own "Martha Marks' Best Nature Stock" site, only to shut it down a year later when it got corrupted. Had a grand total of *one* sale during that year.
But I've kept that URL for use on my business card. It offers a sample of my images, provides links to my stock sites, and includes a bio section that also tells visitors about my fiction and sends them to my books if they're interested.
You can see it here: https://bestnaturestock.com/
This site only has two pages (home and contact) and I rarely change the images. Could do a lot more with it but I haven't bothered. It's just an informative landing page that sends visitors to important other sites.
steheap:
Thanks, Martha! I did wonder if that was the best thing to do. I think there is a plugin that redirects all the old URLs for the deleted pages back to the home which might help.
Did you try to work out which was the best agency for a casual buyer to buy your image in case they wanted to - I guess the question is - which agency is the best for someone who doesn't want a subscription plan or a complex account to just buy one image?
Steve
Jo Ann Snover:
Not sure if this is the plugin you were thinking of (search for SeedProd)
https://www.sumydesigns.com/take-down-website/
My site is still up and functional - very occasional sales these days. The first time I can't upgrade WordPress or anything requiring work and it's gone, but so far, things keep on going :)
marthamarks:
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Did you try to work out which was the best agency for a casual buyer to buy your image in case they wanted to - I guess the question is - which agency is the best for someone who doesn't want a subscription plan or a complex account to just buy one image?
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No, I didn't think about that. Just provided my three main portfolios (but not Dreamstime).
Is there one that you think works best for the casual buyer?
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