Doc Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Just for interest, anyone else noticing major changes in what their CTR is doing from 1st of this month? (up or down?) Mine is dropping like a rock . Thanks Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptoprocta Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Mine are on the low side, but pretty even on the chart since April (no sharp ups or downs by month). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 What method are you using to come to your findings. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andremichel Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Mine has been on a downward trend all year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 To be honest, I never look at my CTR. It doesn't tell me much as it's only one ingredient of the secretive ranking recipe, if it still exists at all. Since you're asking I looked, it's been going up since May, .68 at the moment. I find that I get a lot of zooms but have a lot more competition these days. I sometimes have an Alamynopoly but I've been up against a lot more competing zooms recently. Gen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted August 20, 2018 Author Share Posted August 20, 2018 2 minutes ago, Allan Bell said: What method are you using to come to your findings. Allan watching my graph on my dashboard - generally throughout the past 6 months CTR has been pretty stable at 0.68-0.7 since 1/8 has dropped steadily to 0.5 Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReeRay Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Mine has been on a downward trend since last November which is coincidentally my best sales period ever with Alamy. Conversely, this month, devoid of sales, has seen my CTR rise to it's highest ever level. Go figure that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 1 minute ago, ReeRay said: Mine has been on a downward trend since last November which is coincidentally my best sales period ever with Alamy. Conversely, this month, devoid of sales, has seen my CTR at it's highest ever level. Go figure that one! But sales are generally not reported the same month as zooms. You could have a high CTR for the month, i.e. a high ratio of positive hits/zooms which will not translate into sales until a few months later. In other words, zooms/CTR and sales do not relate to the same month. I had the same case myself. Gen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digi2ap Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 9 minutes ago, Doc said: watching my graph on my dashboard - generally throughout the past 6 months CTR has been pretty stable at 0.68-0.7 since 1/8 has dropped steadily to 0.5 Kumar Mine also standing at 0.5 but last month was 0.52 so nothing really to speak of a drop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 In July it was 0.82, August so far it stands at 0.62 so it's going down. My average CTR for the year is 0.59 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Since February this year my CTR has been up and down on alternating months. Last month was highest at 0.71 but this month presently 0.53 from a total of 140 zooms. Lowest for year was 0.47 in February. So no particular trend. Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Interesting. 0.64 when my total average is 0.46. I'd noticed an increase in zooms, the actual images of which being the only detail I normally take notice. I usually have around forty images showing for the rolling month and it's currently been running towards sixty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaJ Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 No major changes for me. It did drop a bit from the beginning of the month when I got a lot of zooms with relatively few views. But it's at .68 now which is better than than the last couple months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broad Norfolk Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 This month so far my average is 0.39 which is just below my long term average and is about on par for the average for this year. Lowest has been 0.12 for last April and highest 0.64 for last June. It's been a bit of a roller coaster. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Normspics Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 For the year my graph looks like a very exciting roller coaster ride, August is on the rise and curiously the CTR is exactly the same as August 2017, 0.53 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Mine's gone from 0.57 on the 1st. to 0.78 today (20th.) I was only thinking this morning that it was quite high for me, i've usually got a CTR of 0.4 - 0.5ish. Looking back it was Jan 2017 when it was higher. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Two of the search terms which have resulted in the higher view counts on my port have unusually had a zoom each. I would imagine this is very positive for CTR. Normally the higher-viewed search terms are very non-specific so throw up huge numbers of images which clearly aren't appropriate. One such is 'space war', in the news recently. I have a great deal of military images with 'copy space', but sadly none in space! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Ramsay Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Currently .63, generally around .8 or more Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 My CTR was around 0.50 for March and April. Dropped to 0.10 for May. Then to 0.00 for June. In July it went up to 0.20. For August it is standing at 0.40. Not quite sure what caused the big dip in May - July period. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futterwithtrees Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 My CTR is very low and I suspect its about my key wording. I have made a decision to become more careful about what keywords I include. I hate seeing images that are highlighted as being of "Poor Discoverability" and have often succumbed to the temptation to include more keywords to make them more discoverable. I think that with the Alamy system, whatever that is, I am actually making them less discoverable by affecting my CTR and as we all know a low CTR means they are going to be lower ranked. Does that make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 For Aug 1st thru today, my CTR stands at 1.09 and that is a little above average. However, my sales are way down, so far, this month and that is the thing I care about most! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 59 minutes ago, Futterwithtrees said: My CTR is very low and I suspect its about my key wording. I have made a decision to become more careful about what keywords I include. I hate seeing images that are highlighted as being of "Poor Discoverability" and have often succumbed to the temptation to include more keywords to make them more discoverable. I think that with the Alamy system, whatever that is, I am actually making them less discoverable by affecting my CTR and as we all know a low CTR means they are going to be lower ranked. Does that make sense? My CTR has nearly always been below average, but it hasn't seemed to affect the number of sales. Don't bother about 'discoverability'. As you say, you are probably making your images less discoverable due to spurious keywords/tags affecting your ranking and making it worse. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Dropped down since january. It is rarely above the Alamy average. Gone up a bit in august 0.4. Although it does not seem to effect my number of sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobD Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 won't read much into 19 days but my pseudos have turned upside down, main .36 middle .73 worst 1.32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Last month, my CTR was on the low side. But this month so far, my CTR is on the high side for me. So in my instance at least, I think it's just normal random fluctuation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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