Sultanpepa Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Has anyone else experienced a CTR crash over the last two months? From having my highest ever rank in October, November and December have seen me almost hit new lows. Zooms this month have been non existent. Blip do you think or are Alamy at work behind the scenes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Morrison Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Blip, I'd say. For example, my pattern of sales sales can include, as in the last month, eight licenses in one day, then the next ten days without a sale at all. Same with zooms... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
York Photographer Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Since the Thumbnails got much bigger there is less need to zoom for customers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 For me, this month's CTR has shot up to an all time high. Now I am hoping that this will translate into sales ! Sales are still a bit sluggish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Actually in the last 5 months my zooms and CTR have been higher than ever...Dont know why particularly - it pre-dates the change to larger thumbnails- and I am not doing anything different....In another 6 months it will probably be all change again - Alamy certainly seems to provide us with some ups and downs and when you are up - well there's only one way to go. Hey-Ho! Meantime, as Michael says, hope the zooms translate into sales. Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Yarvin Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Dougie, I saw exactly what you saw. Huge jump followed by a big crash. Did sales follow these numbers? No, not even a little bit. Actually, sales follow one number only for me; the number of different subjects I have on sale. Adding more of the same doesn't change anything, adding different stuff stuff; things, locations and hopefully in the future - activities, makes a big difference. Back to the drawing board! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 zooms, sales, healthier than ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Things go up and down. 66 million images on Alamy of which I have 0.01 %, so hardly a measurable statistic. Zooms reasonable, sales good for past couple of months, but, earlier in the year, zooms were well down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 "Things go up and down. 66 million images on Alamy of which I have 0.01 %, so hardly a measurable statistic." in statistics its the absolute size and composition of the sample that's crucial, not its proportion of the total.. Thats how political opinion polls can produce realistic results with samples of 5/10/15 thousand people out of a total UK voting age population of tens of millions.... km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Morrison Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 in statistics its the absolute size and composition of the sample that's crucial, not its proportion of the total.. Thats how political opinion polls can produce realistic results with samples of 5/10/15 thousand people out of a total UK voting age population of tens of millions.... Hmmm... the pollsters' predictions have included some spectacular gaffes in recent years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDoug Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 CTR has been climbing for me. Now if it were only reflected in sales... 20-Nov to 19-Dec 1.0620-Oct to 19-Nov 1.0120-Sep to 19-Oct 0.6720-Aug to 19-Sep 0.61 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Since the Thumbnails got much bigger there is less need to zoom for customers I don't see why that should make the slightest difference. The mouseover popup is still exactly the same size as before and contains the same information. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 For more info on polling and sample sizes... http://www.britishpollingcouncil.org/questions.html#q7 the issue here on Alamy is that one members portfolio isnt going to be a representative sample of the extremely wide range of images in the whole library, so inevitably (as with many other polls) a great degree of sample bias is involved... km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Edwards Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Simple answer. Yes my CTR has crashed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Another simple answer. No my CTR has not crashed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Simple answer. Yes my CTR has crashed... DITTO Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Morgan Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Mine has fallen off of the mountain as well. Jill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Red = CTR Yellow = sales volume Blue is = sales $$ Last month I complained my CTR was on a downhill course; it now all of a sudden veered not just right up, but so far higher than ever. The holidays will rectify that. I don't know how to do a proper graph, so I faked this one in Photoshop: it's all three graphs from the Dashboard on top of each other and resized until the months corresponded. (With layers set to multiply.) Because it's on Google I hope it's visible to everyone. Not sure how to set images public or private there. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultanpepa Posted December 22, 2015 Author Share Posted December 22, 2015 I've had log-on problems hence the late reply. In October my CTR was 1.18 this month so far it's 0.43 and with the holidays I'm guessing a rise is out of the question. Not good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertSnapper Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 I've had log-on problems hence the late reply. In October my CTR was 1.18 this month so far it's 0.43 and with the holidays I'm guessing a rise is out of the question. Not good. Be positive... ....with the holidays they'll be less customer searches and so less views, so even if there's less zooms, there may not be a further drop in CTR as there's less views. Does that make sense ? Remember...patterns are random and unpredictable here (so not a pattern!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnie5 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 I graphed my views over the last year which seems to show a large drop in views around August September. I don't know if that is important but it seems to coincide with the changes in the search engine. I have added around 2200 new images in the past year so I would expect to see an increase in views. Sales have been up and down and zooms died for a while but seem to be coming back. <iframe src="https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=E98BC31EDECE9218&resid=E98BC31EDECE9218%214401&authkey=ANZeEbwlQuXrr-8" width="320" height="192" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Richmond Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Mine has certainly gone down in November and December. It reached the dizzy heights of 4.47 in June, stayed above 1.6 February to October but then sank below 1 for the last two months. Still above the Alamy average - but definitely a decline. Having said that, I may well be more seasonal than most given my portfolio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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