Happy Easter!
Yes it’s Easter Sunday, and I’ll show you how I know!
Empty Tomb - Sunday Morning
IF you know me, then you’ll know that I’m a big fan of Flickr as a photo sharing website. If you are a mom, dad, high school student, college student, hobbyist photographer, grandmother, blogger or business owner than flickr is a tool you can use. A few months ago flickr released a statistics tool for those who have pro accounts. (Pro accounts are about $25 / year… but you don’t need to pay for a basic account)
Here is a look at the stats for the photo seen above:
It’s interesting to see that 1/3 of the views on this photo have been in the past 7 days!
If you haven’t turned on your stats, you need a pro account, then go here.
Having the ability to track the trends is a nice feature of flickr. This is nice if you are using flickr for your business, as a promotional tool, or if stats and numbers or SEO is of interest you. I believe I tweaked the Title a few weeks ago when I noticed that some our ACME’s Stock Easter Photography Images on flickr were getting more hits than other photos which normally receive many views. I think the previous title was a little less descriptive… possibly “Easter morning” or just “Empty Tomb”.
The easter photos do have good tags, which helps in aiding the photo in being found through google, yahoo images, as well as other search engines and flickr’s internal searches.
Remember, if you find photos on flickr, that does not mean that that they are free for the taking to use for whatever purpose you want. The photos still belong do the photographer, so it’s important to look on the flickr page to see if the photographer allows you to use the photos for YOUR blog, power point presentation, or for stock use. Some photographers may license their photos as “Creative Commons” (CC) or they may be marked “All Rights Reserved”.
I mark most all of my photos as “All Rights Reserved” (ARR) however if you CONTACT me and let me know your intentions I’m usually happy to license the photo to you, or in some cases let you use them for a nominal charge and in some cases for free, depending on your use. I’ll then require proper link credits, which is the proper thing to do on the Internet anyway. Watch my photography blog for an upcoming post on using photos from flickr and some tips for contacting photographers you find on line.
Have a great Easter!
Adam Nollmeyer
Phoenix Arizona Photographer & Flickr Expert.