Alamy Measures Stats July 2008

Last month was both my best and my worst. Alamy took the opportunity to re-rank their contributors and because of my lack of zooms and sales in the preceding period they have downgraded both my pseudonyms. That is quite a blow as my CTR was rising and I reached the 200 picture mark. At the same time, last month I made my first sales! I sold two pictures, the first picture twice (once for a printed folder and once for an associated web page) and the second picture for an educational book. The second one is intriguing, and I've posted it here, because I can't think of an educational use for such a specific image. What I do know is that John Lewis this weekend announced a fall in profits so the same image got quite a few views over the weekend but alas no other sales as yet (fingers crossed that the papers used it and will report the use in due course). It is not a very exciting image (slight understatement!!! and remember, with a D100 I don't even get to crop!) but I am proud of the sale nonetheless, after all, I must have got the keywording right! Without further ado, here is my view of Alamy for the month of July: Proportion of searches for: 1 word = 13% , average of 17.21 pages viewed 2 words = 43% , average of 11.93 pages viewed 3 words = 29% , average of 6.09 pages viewed 4 words = 10% , average of 6.15 pages viewed 5+ words = 6% , average of 11.02 pages viewed

The John Lewis customer collections depot in Reading, Berkshire, showing delivery vans

Total number of pictures at end of month: 206 Number of sales for month: 3 Average number of my pictures viewed matching query: 2.43 Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 1.43% My CTR: 0.63% Proportion of searches for: 5 letter words 18.72% 7 letter words 14.87% 4 letter words 14.62% 6 letter words 12.82% 3 letter words 11.79% 8 letter words 11.03% 2 letter words 5.13% 9 letter words 5.13% 10 letter words 2.56% 11 letter words 1.54% 12 letter words 1.28% 13 letter words 0.26% 17 letter words 0.26% Most popular words (top 5 in each position): First word: Cape, coastal, berkshire, Edinburgh, mudeford Second word: and, town, bin, erosion, boat Third word: uk, bin, table, south, bag Fourth word: uk, mountain, africa, and, station