It's all over!


>Knife salesman behind display of knives at the Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo, Japan
Knife salesman behind display of knives at the Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo, Japan

...Japan, that is!!! I've finished editing my Japan pictures and so I shortly will have 250 images of Japan online with Alamy. I reckon 1 in 10 pictures I shot have been made it onto Alamy which means that I shot about 2,500 pictures in 14 days. There's quite a lot of sumo and baseball pictures which aren't of suitable quality for stock but perfectly good for my own album and web use, and a load of similars from things like the Kamakura horseback archery.

Of course, the downside of my collection on Alamy being so Japan-heavy is that my CTR will probably drop further since travel is such a competitive area. But, who cares, the hard work is over..almost. I have got to keyword about 150...

Fresh seafood and fish stall at the Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo, Japan 3/3
Fresh seafood and fish stall at the Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo, Japan 3/3
Fresh tuna on sale at the Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo, Japan 2/3
Fresh tuna on sale at the Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo, Japan 2/3

Alamy Measures Stats November 2008


*Sigh* The most depressing part of struggling on Alamy is actually that they make your stats so available and detailed. I am clearly not succeeding on Alamy and I don't wish to go into denial and blame the credit crunch. I have found some enthusiasm to start shooting some stock over winter at least but the following stats represent my worst month so far.

Here is my view of Alamy for the month of November:

Proportion of searches for:

1 word = 15% , average of 22.48 pages viewed
2 words = 52% , average of 10.38 pages viewed
3 words = 24% , average of 7.14 pages viewed
4 words = 8% , average of 7.75 pages viewed
5+ words = 1% , average of 7.33 pages viewed

Total number of pictures at end of month: 403
Number of sales for month: 0
Average number of my pictures viewed matching query: 2.11
Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 1.35%
My CTR: 0.37% WTF!!!!!
Coloured and golden Koi carp, Hiroshima, Japan 3/4
Coloured and golden Koi carp, Hiroshima, Japan 3/4

Proportion of searches for:

5 letter words 15.86%
4 letter words 15.69%
6 letter words 14.44%
3 letter words 14.08%
9 letter words 11.59%
7 letter words 11.23%
8 letter words 8.20%
2 letter words 4.28%
10 letter words 2.14%
11 letter words 2.14%
13 letter words 0.18%
16 letter words 0.18%

Most popular words (top 5 in each position ignoring "and"):

First word: christmas chinese tinsel toilet amsterdam book ENGLAND victorian
Second word: CARDS dragon UK christmas child office
Third word: UK manger Traditional shop lake smith
Fourth word: UK district beautiful buildings mountain concrete
Fifth word: village
Any position: christmas CARDS UK chinese dragon

Most popular variations:

shell: (petrol OR fuel)
christmas: (cards OR stars OR decoration angel OR penguin OR presents)
amsterdam: (coffee shop OR bike)
book: (pile OR chapter)
old: (book OR paper)
toilet: (seat OR flush)
household: (rubbish OR recycling OR store)
victorian: (street OR christmas OR doll OR toy)

In contrast to the stats that I can gather from my own Measures data, here is what the whole of Alamy is searching for:

Most popular Alamy searches (top 5 in each position ignoring "alamy" as a search):

by number of unique customers searching: Christmas "christmas tree" dubai cat champagne
by number of sales: tallin leeds "kid profile" "dawn ireland" warnemunde
by number of zooms: courcheval malaysia hawaii christmas cuba