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Datsun 1975 {EXPLORE #140} by AshleyKent, on Flickr
anyone know how to get on explore, there must be a reason how to get on there, a few of mine have been on there now, just dont know what triggers it
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Datsun 1975 {EXPLORE #140} by AshleyKent, on Flickr
anyone know how to get on explore, there must be a reason how to get on there, a few of mine have been on there now, just dont know what triggers it
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Flickr FAQ
http://www.flickr.com/help/website/#109657
E2a: it's a closely guarded secret sauce recipe, to try to stop people playing the system
http://www.flickr.com/help/website/#109657
How do I get on Explore?
There is no one list of things to do to get on explore. But if you are interested in having more people view your images, the best thing to do is be involved in the Flickr community. Join groups, tag your photos, geotag your photos, explore and comment on other people's photos. Flickr is a friendly place. When you say hi, people will usually say hi back.
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E2a: it's a closely guarded secret sauce recipe, to try to stop people playing the system
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In my experience explore comes from photos that are in less than 10 groups, are keyworded, geotagged and have a description.
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I've found that my explores all two of them have come from images that have received about half a dozen comments and favourites with about 15 minutes or less of being online, I'm the laziest at tagging and putting onto the map :bang:
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I keyword my files and geotag them before I do anything with them, that way when I drop them into Media Pro which I use to catalogue and manage them all the work is done. It saves having hours and hours of keywording and titling to do every now and again.
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The rate at which comments/favourites arrive is supposed to count highly in the scoring, as is the amount of attention received (views, favourites, comments) for the least effort (tagging, groups) but there are some pimp-detection elements built in (various theories around the optimum number of tags/groups).
The other thing to remember is that it's all relative to the other photos posted that day. So when you rank your stream by interestingness (the Flickr score used to measure popularity for Explore purposes) you'll usually find that the Explore images aren't always those that have the highest interestingness.
There are always several Flickr Groups running that deliberately game the system.. they generally take a while to get going, appear to dominate the rankings for a while, Flickr then changes the algorithym to block their strategy (or exclude them from the scoring). If you want to find them, have a look through a few images in Explore. Find one that isn't listed in any groups at all (unusual for an Explore image) and then look at the Groups the person that posted it is in. You'll find the Explore-gaming groups, and you can easily figure out how they're doing it.