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Title: Flickr
Post by: TheRaven on 24 October 2012, 13:57

Well I've paid for Pro and it is totally worth it! What do you guys think?  :smiley:

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ravenphotography2012/sets/

Title: Re: Flickr
Post by: Mr_F on 24 October 2012, 14:13

Nice!

Did you go for a year or two subscription?

Title: Re: Flickr
Post by: TheRaven on 24 October 2012, 14:20

Just did the 3 month one to try it, only cost just over £4!

Title: Re: Flickr
Post by: DubFan on 25 October 2012, 10:25

I'm on my 2nd year of paid for Pro flickr account.
I only really went for the Pro account as it meant you could upload that many more photos. This was an issue because I was in the middle of a project and had just about hit the 200 photo limit of the free account.
I now have 700+ photos on there.

One of benefits of a Pro account is that you can turn on Stats, then you can see how many people are viewing your photos individually, in sets or your entire photostream. Sometimes when I've uploaded what I think is a corker, I check back several times a day to see how many views it's had. You can also see how people are finding your photos, whether it's a link from Facebook, a blog, google or here.
It does help give you an idea of which of your photos are better, though not necessarily why.

Good move though, more exposure the better and there's lots of people on flickr to give you constructive criticism.

Title: Re: Flickr
Post by: TheRaven on 25 October 2012, 11:57

Definitely, the stats are great!

Title: Re: Flickr
Post by: Organisys on 25 October 2012, 13:01

For info, if you are a BT Broadband customer, you get Flickr pro for free.

Title: Re: Flickr
Post by: DubFan on 25 October 2012, 13:26

Quote from: Organisys on 25 October 2012, 13:01

For info, if you are a BT Broadband customer, you get Flickr pro for free.

How's that? Some deal with Yahoo?

Title: Re: Flickr
Post by: Mr_F on 25 October 2012, 15:08

HAHA, that's so cool, I just swapped it over to my BT address and it worked.  Brilliant!

Might have some time to get Autumnel colour snap happy on Saturday.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_nav/

Need to have some fun with the themes on it.

Update:

sussed it:

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/the_nav/popular-interesting/

Title: Re: Flickr
Post by: DubFan on 25 October 2012, 16:41

Personally I wouldn't link to the "popular/interesting" page, because that's photos that other people find interesting.
I would link to your most recent photos, because your most recent are more likely to be the ones that you want people to see first, or at least see them in the order you uploaded them.

Eg: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/alistairbeavis/ (http://www.flickriver.com/photos/alistairbeavis/)

Title: Re: Flickr
Post by: Organisys on 26 October 2012, 12:17

Quote from: DubFan on 25 October 2012, 13:26

Quote from: Organisys on 25 October 2012, 13:01

For info, if you are a BT Broadband customer, you get Flickr pro for free.

How's that? Some deal with Yahoo?

Yep.