Discussions (279)
New on Flickr: STATS!
photosapience says:
Very cool. Now pro users can check your stats (popular pages, referrals, etc)!
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sniderscion says:
I highly recommend this. It takes a day or so to show up but there's a lot of fascinating info...what domains people are coming from; accurate view counts, what search terms they're using, etc etc. If you're into this sort of thing check it out. And it's free!
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photosapience says:
Is it just me, or does it appear that Flickr could use a little search engine optimization? Very few hits come from the big search sites it seems (compared to my own presonal site, for example).
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moonwire says:
it doesn't tell you where the traffic is coming from per picture. i have a pretty dumb shot that has been getting over 100 views a day. it's several months old and i have no idea why. it's not as if i'm losing sleep over it, but the stats aren't all that helpful IMO.
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sniderscion says:
I think Flickr blocks or makes it difficult for some engines. I know I read something about this somewhere but don't remember where. I'm going to dig into it though. The majority of hits on my shots come from Yahoo, there are very few from Google. Who owns Flickr? Yahoo. (I am not a conspiracy theorist by any means). |
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moonwire says:
it's this one - stats don't tell me anything and it's not in explore. perhaps people are doing mad searches on 'thongs and bongs'? |
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sniderscion says:
LOL- well I know I search those terms almost every night! |
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photosapience says:
LOL at moonwire. Definitely the thong tag that's done it. I dare you to add "barely legal" and cleavage" to your tags and watch that photo hit 100,000 views in no time.
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Lú_ says:
moonwire - You *should* be able to see stats for any image viewed in the last 28 days. In the table lists, click to paginate through the list, then click on the image. If you see "flickr.com" or whatever below that, then click on that -- it'll show you group views, search terms, etc. |
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moonwire says:
haha - i just did. let's see how this little experiment unfolds.... :) |
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photosapience says:
mmonwire - Please let us know the results of your cleavage experiment :)
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sniderscion says:
That would be another great tag "cleavage experiment" :) |
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moonwire says:
well, since i added those tags, the views dropped from over a 100, to 60 to just 22 today. that pic must have been on some weblog or something.
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sniderscion says:
Now that's very interesting. It might have something to do with the safety filters too. Not sure if one of those terms might flag a photo as "unsafe" ?
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Lú_ says:
Tags can't flag a photo restricted - only people can. I think a lot of it is just that the views in most photos drop off after the first day.
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