Statistic Questions

1. i think the count is off some place for a few things on the site. or it's a day late or something.
2. there is a like button on the upper right, but sometimes its zero, if you click it, you'll see the number
3. make sure they are really looking. but i don't think all views count, you need a cookie i'm pretty sure, and if theirs is off, maybe it doesn't count? if they really looked at all 100, then yes it should show 100 - make sure they are really looking and not saying they looked at all of them

but in the end views aren't sales, and knowing how many in that resolution won't help you much.

---Mike Savad

I just looked at and "liked" the first ten images on your homepage. See if they count them

Yes Ann they did show up as views. I wonder if its different for FAA members and nonmembers. Maybe it don't show non- members views all the time. Thanks for your help

Hey Mike....maybe I'm wrong but I was under the impression that the more views and activity on your site, the better it is for people to find your images on search pages. Since I'm new my images will not show up on until many pages back in a search. Am I wrong in that thought?

if you sell, your higher. there are people with a ton of views, not scoring high. i think views are more closely related to when you appear in the sponsored section, because i'm almost certain that is regulated as well. views are too easy to manipulate, so if i were scoring the engine, that would be low on my list. every bot, counts as a view, i knew of one person that had a bot go to each page giving him a 100,000 views a day. i don't think it helped him at all.

if your new - your in the back. you either have to have things that are so unique that you show in the front. or advertise outside the site, and have them go right to you.

---Mike Savad

The vast majority of ranking algorithms (the Internet runs on ranking algorithms, they're not just unique to here) either ignore view counts completely, or slightly negatively rank them (i.e. more views actually reduces how high your image scores, albeit by a very small amount). This is partly because they're so easy to manipulate, and partly because a view without an associated action often implies a small negative connotation. I don't know which FAA does, but I doubt they apply much, if any, positive bias to view counts.

As an example, imagine you are a computer with no ability to artistically judge the merit of an image. You have two images you need to rank:

Image A: 1,000 views, 10 sales.
Image B: 1,000,000 views, 10 sales.

If that's all the information you have, which would you consider more likely to sell if you show it to someone?

Thanks for your input everyone. This stuff is so confusing and frustrating.

basically don't worry about it. just make sure the public sees the work. assume most views are window shoppers. all you need is that one person to buy something and the 1000 that pass by were just lookers.

---Mike Savad

Mike do you post on social sites?

everything but google plus. twitter, and facebook, pinterest and such. others advertise my work as they discover it.

---Mike Savad