flickr view counts!

back alley

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the view counts on my flickr account are going through the roof!
anywhere from 1 to 5 thousand a day!!

not sure what is going on but my self esteem is bloating!
 
Apparently someone thinks your photo's are worthy to steal. Joe if you took crappy photo's like me no one would bother.;) But I hope that's not the case.
 
Joe: could it be that one of your photos there is embedded in some other website so that when that site is opened, it shows you photo viewed? I am not sure how flickr works as I have never used it.

I do know that a photo on my website was embedded in another and it showed that the number of visitors to my personal site was up by large amounts. Although my photo was not sexual, it was used in a website with strong sexual content. More important, that referring site was very racial. Sexual content does not bother me but the strong racial content was very bothersome.
 
flickr shows which images are viewed and how many times…many of the images are now older and have been on my account for years…
i honestly don't know how it all works…but the views are up, 'favourites' are up, comments are up...
 
... I knew him before he was famous you know ...
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They started counting unique views differently once they went "free", to make it look more attractive to potential future advertisers. I used to average several hundred views a day, now I am in the thousands.
 
Greyscale said:
They started counting unique views differently once they went "free", to make it look more attractive to potential future advertisers. I used to average several hundred views a day, now I am in the thousands.
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.... that's a really cynical way of looking at it, so you're probably correct in your analysis
 
Greyscale said:
They started counting unique views differently once they went "free", to make it look more attractive to potential future advertisers. I used to average several hundred views a day, now I am in the thousands.
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Any details about the differences between the old way and the new way (aside from that the new way generates more views)?
 
aeturnum said:
Any details about the differences between the old way and the new way (aside from that the new way generates more views)?
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back alley posts this "my god, my flickr view count is through the roof" threads almost monthly. It's all been explained before. ;)
 
aeturnum said:
Looks like it was asked once before in this forum, here's the discussion : http://rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=135572&highlight=flickr

It seems everyone in that thread thinks Flickr changed their algorithm, but that the specifics are murky. If anyone has a source, I'd be interested, as without an understanding of where the numbers come from they're meaningless.
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I can only speak from empiric evidence, but it seems to that one thing that has changed is the way that they count views of individual photos within a set. It used to be that the set was counted as one page view, regardless of how many individual photos were viewed from the set. Now, it seems as if they count every viewed photo within the set as a unique view.

I make a lot of sets of photos from the town where I currently live, and I share these sets on a Facebook page geared primarily toward homesick former residents. Before Flickr went away from being a subscription based service, whenever I posted one of these sets to Facebook I could count on perhaps 300 extra views. Since the changeover, I now get upward of 8000 new views a day every time that I share a new set. I think that they handle counts of your photostream the same way as well. One count for the photostream or set, plus one count for each individual photo viewed within, when it used to be that just the initial loading of a stream or a set counted as a view. I have heard that photos displayed as a result of a flickr image search are now also counted, even if they are only displayed on the results page.
 
If you drill down a bit, you may find (as I have) that it is merely enough for your image to appear in the stream of results from a search. Even if your image appears at a point in the stream to which the searcher has not scrolled & therefore seen (let alone clicked through to), that seems to count as a "view"

(I'm quoting myself, this was discussed a bit ago here: http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=135572)
 
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