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Smugmug

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  • 14-05-2013 12:17pm
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    frostie500
    Registered Users Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering does anyone else use smugmug? I set up my account last month to try and sell some of my wares and while I've had a lot of hits on the site, almost 20k, I still havent made a sale. Anyone else have similar experiences?


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    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,569 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Never heard of it!

    Do you pay to be on it?


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    pullandbang
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 4,948 ✭✭✭pullandbang


    Smugmug has been around a while. Regardless of hits the reason people haven't bought any of your stuff is that they're not interested. If someone happens to be looking for a particular image and they stumble across your site and you have that image, then you'll probably make a sale. Just starting a site and offering images for sale is no guarantee of business. If it was that easy everyone would be at it.


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    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,476 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    I've never heard of it but could you put a link up to your page?


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    Farmlife
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Farmlife


    Stocksy is the way forward :)


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    frostie500
    Registered Users Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭frostie500


    Here's a link to the site.

    I had been having a little success selling photos from my personal website but I don't get a lot of traffic to it, usually somewhere in the region of 2000 hits a month for motorsport news and analysis, so decided to try something else and came across smugmug.

    PullandBang I didn't expect to instantly be making a load of sales by any stretch but figured that with that amount of hits that I'd get one or two inquires though!


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    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    starting to use it my self not so much to make money just for stuff involved in work I could use flickr but to be honest flickr is a trash can of a website that makes my eyes bleed :D


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    #8
    ImagenEstilo
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭ImagenEstilo


    Frostie,

    I use Smugmug also, though only for galleries that are for clients. I been looking at ways to integrate it more with my own site and it does seem super SEO friendly. I've only skimmed through this article but it has some top bits of info on how to integrate your site with Smugmug and also benefit from it in terms of SEO. Have a read:

    http://alikgriffin.com/3-must-know-tips-photographers-using-smugmug-pro

    How have you set up your galleries as a matter of interest? And a big question is how did you manage to get 20k hits in so short a time. That is pretty awesome.


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    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    frostie500 wrote: »
    Just wondering does anyone else use smugmug? I set up my account last month to try and sell some of my wares and while I've had a lot of hits on the site, almost 20k, I still havent made a sale. Anyone else have similar experiences?

    I don't imagine there is as large a market for photo prints of cars as there is, for, say, landscapes, portraits or abstracts. It would probably generate lots of hits though.


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