Flickr stats

[Jaffster]

So, I'm a bit of a Flickr stats addict. I'm getting the concept of tags, relevance and interestingness.

I've realised that the image name comes before tags. Example, if you have one shot named 'England' and another named something different but with an England tag then the image named England will come up first.

But, I'm noticing that each day I'm getting hits from Google and google images from people searching for '500d' and '500d 10-22mm'.

Example, I got 2 hits yesterday from:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&tbs=isch:1&q=canon+500d+photo&sa=N&start=160&ndsp=20

Page 9, there it is. My shot. Now, I experimented a little and uploaded another one called 'Paul and his 500d again' and this gets no google traffic at all. How does this work? I love following linkbacks and hits as it interests me were traffic comes from and how it works. Plus, it's good practise for when my site is finished.

Another example would be of the Manchester Flickr group meet. I had the honor of doing the group photo which appeared on the front page of explore back in January. I'm still getting around 10 hits a day on this right now. However, a google image search for 'Flickr Manchester meet' brings up other shots but not this one, which has had over 1,000+ views and is classed by Flickr as 'Interesting'.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=...q=flickr+manchester+meet&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=20

I'm intrigued.... can someone fill in the spaces?

 

[Itti]

I have no idea how these things work but from my own browsing I went from the image that was #1 on Google, then there's a link on the right hand side that Flickr has provided with links to other images from that meet. There are only about half a dozen group shots so if I were looking for photos I'd click on all of them.