Weekly Listings - Recent Visitors To Your Artwork

Jim,
The issue is that watermarks hurt sales, even if you state that they're not on the prints. So from the discussions here than 'the experts' say that you can't really do anything about people that want to download low-resolution files. You can use the reverse image search to try and hunt down offending sites, and should regularly police the web. But in general it's assumed that people that do this aren't art buyers anyway.

The Russian Federation or repeat visitors are usually just bots indexing your work for their searches, so it's probably a good thing. I usually will have 20-40 hits almost immediately when I upload new work from different bots.

Hope this helps.
Mary Ellen Anderson

anyone can remove a watermark depending where it's located on the image. they can download a 900px ver of the image. beyond that they never mentioned what they do for security or what they plan to do with this new stock venture, and will my files be mixed in with that.

usually you'll have lots of views and few sales, people like looking. either someone in russia likes your work, or they are a bot. there is no 100% effective ways to prevent theft other than to not have it there. the chances at someone wanting to break into the site and steal images - rather than credit card info - is rather remote i think.

i don't care for watermarks and even if it was there, it won't help people find me if they found it.

---Mike Savad