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The upward trend from September did not continue for long - although I got 5% more traffic in October than I got in September overall.
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I like QuantCast.
If you get more than a few visitors to your web sites - it is a good way of showing potential advertisers how many eyes they could be in front of...
It also gives you a rough idea of your traffic at a glance, if you can't be bothered to look at your Google Analytics.
But for some reason it was insisting that my Photos Web Site was getting a lot less visitors than it actually was.
Here is a copy of the email from their very helpful support (most recent at the top):-
No, not if they don’t actually arrive at your site. We count the pageview and the traffic toward your “network”, however, since the user is at “images.google.com” in their browser bar, they are only visiting a site that is syndicating your content.
So, in effect, we count it both ways.
Mark
From: Jordan McClements [mailto:m@jmcwd.com]
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 6:06 AM
To: Mark Schulze
Subject: Re: Quantcast: Stats
Yes - that will be images.google.com, images.google.co.uk etc..
I get a lot of image search traffic.
So while the syndicator may be images.google.com, it should still count as a 'irishviews.com' page view as one of the pages of my web site is actually being viewed?
(This is how Google analytics would show it).
Thanks.
Mark Schulze wrote:
Hi Jordan --
We are seeing Irishviews as your largest site as well -- however, we are seeing a very large amount of traffic showing up in syndicated frames on Google.
http://www.quantcast.com/p-69vD_sSm4z0-g/traffic/syndicators
Mark
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Email: m@jmcwd.com
Name: Jordan McClements
Case number: 00010351
Case description:
The number for the 'JMCWD Network' are about right,
But the way they are broken down is completely wrong.
I know that irishviews.com accounts for the vast majority of my traffic - but Quantcast says it is only a minority of traffic...
I got an email recently from Jonathan Timar, asking me to review his 'Lucy Starkiller' Photoshop / PSP script.
Here is an excerpt from his email:-
Hi Jordan,
My Name is Jonathan, I run the blog known as "The Limelight", at http://inthelimelight.net. You may remember it, as you have visited a few times and even left a comment or two.
I am also the creator of the Lucy Starkiller Photoshop Action (and Paint Shop Pro script), which is essentially a no plugin required response to the LucisArts/Dave Hill "look" craze. It became quite popular, especially early on when I was actively promoting it, and most users have been very pleased with it.
With that in mind, I was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing it on your blog? .....
Thanks Jordan,
Jonathan Timar
I got a request to use some of my photo for a charity..
I was not able to reply back as the email address was not valid, and there was no phone number included.
If you can find this post Allison Middlemas, then the answer is of course you can..
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Name: Allison Middlemas
Email: purpleskiescharity.co.uk
Email2: purpleskiescharity.co.uk
Phone:
Country: England
Enquiry: Hi
I am in the process of setting up a website for my charity which provides support for parents of children with autism. I was looking at your photograhy of purple skies and wondered if you would give your permission for one of them to be used on our webpage. I would of course credit you for the images, provide links to your site and details of purchasing items.
Allison Middlemas
Founder of Purple Skies Charity.
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Many thanks to Andrew Kaluzniacki for using (and paying for) one of my photos in his cool little iPhone App 'Hello Cow!' 
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Traffic is really on the up again, with the combined effect of the end of summer, and more of my images being picked up in Google Image search (I think).
Here is a very rough look at how the traffic is picking up:-
All other earnings apart from Adsense are not enough to even mention here, and I didn't sell any photos this month despite a few genuine sounding enquiries.....
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I am keeping company names out of this post so I do get into trouble with lawyers, but a few weeks back I got a phone call from fairly large newspaper, asking if they could use one of my photos.
The person calling me was a keen photographer himself, and a very nice guy, but he basically said that the newspaper was not prepared to pay me *any* money for the use of the photo!
He said he felt really bad about this and was embarrassed to even ask me the question, and he would pay me a few quid out of his own pocket just to save him time trying to find another similar photo..
I asked if he could arrange for a link from their web site to mine somewhere - and he said yes - so I agreed (without taking money from his pocket)...
About a week later, another (fairly large) monthly publication contacted me and asked me almost exactly the same question, but this time not as nicely.
To cut a long story short, at the end of the conversation I said
"So you are not prepared to give me any money at all?"
They said:
"....(long pause)... NO!"
I said:
"Well in that case, the answer is no, you cannot use any of my photos!"
If anyone else has had anything similar happen to them recently, I would love to hear from you...
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I have been plugging ClickBank products for quite some time now - and the result is a big fat ZERO:-
There are *some* products on ClickBank worth buying, and I know that there are some people who make good money as ClickBank affiliates, but it is not as easy as just setting up some ClickBank products on your blog and watching the money roll in!
If anyone has had any positive experiences with ClickBank I'd love to hear from you!
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Adsense = $269
Photo Sales = ZERO!.
Chitika = $31.25
Here is a breakdown of Chitika Earnings for August 2009 (Chitika Premium Mega Unit) at the top of my irishviews.com photo web site:-
| Date | Impressions | Clicks | CTR | Avg Cpc | eCPM | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-08-31 | 8 | 0 | 0.00% | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| 2009-08-30 | 1098 | 26 | 2.37% | $0.05 | $1.23 | $1.35 |
| 2009-08-29 | 924 | 18 | 1.95% | $0.06 | $1.20 | $1.11 |
| 2009-08-28 | 1110 | 22 | 1.98% | $0.05 | $1.09 | $1.21 |
| 2009-08-27 | 1176 | 30 | 2.55% | $0.05 | $1.23 | $1.45 |
| 2009-08-26 | 1182 | 24 | 2.03% | $0.05 | $0.93 | $1.09 |
| 2009-08-25 | 1197 | 21 | 1.75% | $0.04 | $0.75 | $0.89 |
| 2009-08-24 | 1178 | 33 | 2.80% | $0.04 | $1.05 | $1.24 |
| 2009-08-23 | 999 | 17 | 1.70% | $0.04 | $0.72 | $0.72 |
| 2009-08-22 | 1014 | 22 | 2.17% | $0.05 | $0.98 | $0.99 |
| 2009-08-21 | 1071 | 27 | 2.52% | $0.05 | $1.17 | $1.25 |
| 2009-08-20 | 1046 | 19 | 1.82% | $0.04 | $0.64 | $0.67 |
| 2009-08-19 | 1049 | 28 | 2.67% | $0.05 | $1.46 | $1.53 |
| 2009-08-18 | 1157 | 28 | 2.42% | $0.05 | $1.33 | $1.53 |
| 2009-08-17 | 1045 | 21 | 2.01% | $0.06 | $1.28 | $1.33 |
| 2009-08-16 | 924 | 10 | 1.08% | $0.07 | $0.73 | $0.67 |
| 2009-08-15 | 738 | 12 | 1.63% | $0.07 | $1.20 | $0.89 |
| 2009-08-14 | 890 | 9 | 1.01% | $0.06 | $0.58 | $0.51 |
| 2009-08-13 | 1137 | 28 | 2.46% | $0.07 | $1.63 | $1.86 |
| 2009-08-12 | 1052 | 21 | 2.00% | $0.06 | $1.26 | $1.32 |
| 2009-08-11 | 1093 | 24 | 2.20% | $0.06 | $1.27 | $1.39 |
| 2009-08-10 | 1077 | 14 | 1.30% | $0.04 | $0.53 | $0.58 |
| 2009-08-09 | 972 | 12 | 1.23% | $0.05 | $0.67 | $0.66 |
| 2009-08-08 | 1012 | 21 | 2.08% | $0.06 | $1.22 | $1.23 |
| 2009-08-07 | 1137 | 13 | 1.14% | $0.06 | $0.63 | $0.72 |
| 2009-08-06 | 1272 | 24 | 1.89% | $0.05 | $0.99 | $1.25 |
| 2009-08-05 | 937 | 22 | 2.35% | $0.05 | $1.18 | $1.11 |
| 2009-08-04 | 1069 | 12 | 1.12% | $0.07 | $0.77 | $0.83 |
| 2009-08-03 | 1070 | 18 | 1.68% | $0.05 | $0.80 | $0.86 |
| 2009-08-02 | 863 | 13 | 1.51% | $0.05 | $0.69 | $0.59 |
| 2009-08-01 | 867 | 10 | 1.15% | $0.04 | $0.49 | $0.42 |
| Total | 31364 | 599 | 1.91% | $0.05 | $1.00 | $31.25 |
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2008 Earnings $8300
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