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

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