MichaelG Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Morning All, Did anyone notice dramatic drop in views? My views plummeted in the last few days, yesterday being epic - only 5 recorded. I would usually have around 100 +/-... Thanks Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultanpepa Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Simple answer is yes I have. No idea why though. Sales too, still nothing for the month. Maybe the accounts team are on vacation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Yes same here. Main pseudo would normally be 600-800 per day but now down to approx 400 per day for last few days. Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelG Posted September 13, 2018 Author Share Posted September 13, 2018 hmm... i think someone mentioned change in search algorithm but that`s a massive blow for me. I know i dont have a big port yet and although not really suffering from too many zooms (recorded only 38 for the last 12 months) at least i thought my views are growing along with my port and sales are slowly started to creep in. But now with 5 views not sure if i can scratch any surface in here... Hope this is just temporary glitch and all be back to norm soon... Thanks Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 38 minutes ago, MichaelG said: hmm... i think someone mentioned change in search algorithm but that`s a massive blow for me. I know i dont have a big port yet and although not really suffering from too many zooms (recorded only 38 for the last 12 months) at least i thought my views are growing along with my port and sales are slowly started to creep in. But now with 5 views not sure if i can scratch any surface in here... Hope this is just temporary glitch and all be back to norm soon... Thanks Michael There is no obvious sign the search algorithm has changed massively - both BHZ and my benchmark searches remain static. It is more likely the view counting machine has gone awry. It has happened before where the number of views recorded dropped dramatically for several days and then eventually returned to normal. An IT glitch rather than a search policy change would be my bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelG Posted September 13, 2018 Author Share Posted September 13, 2018 2 minutes ago, Joseph Clemson said: There is no obvious sign the search algorithm has changed massively - both BHZ and my benchmark searches remain static. It is more likely the view counting machine has gone awry. It has happened before where the number of views recorded dropped dramatically for several days and then eventually returned to normal. An IT glitch rather than a search policy change would be my bet. Thanks Joseph! Hope that`s the case! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 When I looked yesterday I didn’t have any zooms. When I looked today at yesterday’s statistics, I did have one. I think there must have been a glitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CandyAppleRed Images Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Something seems amiss somewhere. Views are very low and also my cleared balance on the Dashboard is nothing like the 'cleared but not paid' items in my account page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Ditto My views are down to less than half from 6 months ago despite adding about 400 images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broad Norfolk Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Views down significantly here too but, conversely, my zooms have soared this month. Just hope this is a positive trend. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roman t Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Yes. Everything else is dramatically dropping as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 The system seems very fickle these days. My zooms, CTR, and sales all went south in August after months of stability. This month they all appear to be coming back (touch wood). I haven't noticed any significant drop in views, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marb Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 My views have shot up this month but no sales. I am getting really fed up with the lack of sales here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 9 minutes ago, LawrensonPhoto said: 22 views yesterday 0 zooms. I had hoped i could rely on 1 image sold per 1000 uploads, but it looks like i can't, so i'll just have to plod along with live news as the only reliable means of making money on here (touch wood). I wonder if the emphasis you have on Live News impacts the number of views you are getting? I have a similar sized portfolio and yesterday I had 86 views and 1 zoom (and I regard 86 views as about one-third of what I would normally get). One difference I notice with Live News shooting is that it tends to produce a greater number of similars in a portfolio as multiple photos of the same event are shot, whereas a portfolio focussed purely on stock would more likely have only one or two images of any subject. Portfolios with large number of similars tend to get pushed down the rankings as such views as are generated result in proportionately fewer zooms and sales, which becomes a vicious circle. I don't shoot a lot of live news myself but I have recently created a separate live news pseudonym to hold such images as I do have, so that the larger number of similars does not impact my main pseudonyms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelG Posted September 14, 2018 Author Share Posted September 14, 2018 Only 38 views today. More than 5 but still not very promising... My sales picked it up finally and I started getting at least one a month but wary now with views being so low i wont get much exposure and possible sales... being hopeful tho that this is just a temporary glitch... right back to keywording Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 Out of curiosity I selected: 12-13 July: Views 1034 Zooms 3 Top subjects: England football charity (138), Farnborough Air Show (49), Spitfire flying (43) 12-13 Sept: Views 681 Zooms 4 Top subjects: Trafalgar Square (28), Old War Office London (43 - two sessions combined), Chelmsford (19) Who knows whether it's just a variation on subject requirements or a trend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marb Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 23 minutes ago, MichaelG said: Only 38 views today. More than 5 but still not very promising... My sales picked it up finally and I started getting at least one a month but wary now with views being so low i wont get much exposure and possible sales... being hopeful tho that this is just a temporary glitch... right back to keywording I really don't think keywording is that important. I have done searches here and some of the first few images that appear on the first page have very very few keywords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 It might be that Alamy have tweaked the criteria for the views/customers that get recorded in the metrics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 17 minutes ago, Marb said: I really don't think keywording is that important. I have done searches here and some of the first few images that appear on the first page have very very few keywords. But it really matters if your smaller amount of keywords are not among the ones used in a search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aphperspective Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 For a small port my views are holding up well this month so far 400 and 3 zooms, which I think is the best so far as I have only been on here since March. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riccarbi Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 My guess is that such a drop is possibly related to Google, not Alamy. Doing a search for "Alamy" + "keyword" in Google images, today gives me much less pictures than in the past; furthermore, most of them are totally unrelated to the subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 7 minutes ago, riccarbi said: My guess is that such a drop is possibly related to Google, not Alamy. Doing a search for "Alamy" + "keyword" in Google images, today gives me much less pictures than in the past; furthermore, most of them are totally unrelated to the subject. Searching for Alamy images using Google never counted as part of the views reported in Alamy Measures anyway... so Google makes no difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 1 hour ago, Joseph Clemson said: I wonder if the emphasis you have on Live News impacts the number of views you are getting? I have a similar sized portfolio and yesterday I had 86 views and 1 zoom (and I regard 86 views as about one-third of what I would normally get). One difference I notice with Live News shooting is that it tends to produce a greater number of similars in a portfolio as multiple photos of the same event are shot, whereas a portfolio focussed purely on stock would more likely have only one or two images of any subject. Portfolios with large number of similars tend to get pushed down the rankings as such views as are generated result in proportionately fewer zooms and sales, which becomes a vicious circle. I don't shoot a lot of live news myself but I have recently created a separate live news pseudonym to hold such images as I do have, so that the larger number of similars does not impact my main pseudonyms. That’s what I figured, too, so have created two pseudonyms - one for weather news and one for news news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 It may be just me and I don't do a lot of news so only have a few examples but I find that images uploaded through live news generally come well down in search results once they become general stock images. If this is true for others then having a lot of live news in one's port could result in fewer views. However that does not explain the present dramatic drop in views that has just happened this week. Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan_Andison Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 I've noticed views and zooms have been down. Search positions for key images etc seem to be normal, still high up and don't seem too have changed much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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