>Now they'll sell you a book on how to lose money in photography
This is a spam - your success in photography is not their prime goal. The goal is to sell you a book.
Likely marketing books is more lucrative for them than marketing pictures. For most people marketing low end stock photographs they perhaps should set up shop telling other about marketing photography, they might make more money..
And of course, if there is ONE thing a scamming affiliate marketer loves more than someone visiting his site, it's the link to the site making it into some forums so it'll go up in search engine rankings, etc - don't give the parasites the publicity...
Cheers, Stuart
On 1/8/07, David Barr <photo...@photobar.com> wrote:
> >Now they'll sell you a book on how to lose money in photography
> This is a spam - your success in photography is not their prime goal. > The goal is to sell you a book.
> Likely marketing books is more lucrative for them than marketing > pictures. For most people marketing low end stock photographs they > perhaps should set up shop telling other about marketing photography, > they might make more money..
> David Barr > --
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Of course, search engine rankings are largely meaningless for the stock photography industry, with search hits having almost no correlation with sales. Indeed, some of us do not want search engine access to our specialized images, preferring to give access only to legitimate clients. Rankings of hits from legitimate stock photo users would be another matter, but that is not at all what the search engine rankings give. It's better to spend one's time/money promoting to potential photo users rather than fiddling around with tweaks to improve one's general, meaningless search rankings.
And of course, if there is ONE thing a scamming affiliate marketer loves more than someone visiting his site, it's the link to the site making it into some forums so it'll go up in search engine rankings, etc - don't give the parasites the publicity...
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That's right - however the particular parasite in question isn't running a stock photographic site, he's an affiliate marketer looking to get sales of his book, people to sign up to sell his book, and people to ultimately click on ads on his site - his stock in trade IS search engine rankings, and propogating his link will help him achieve his goals - goals that also have the effect of bringing more people into microstock, too... all round, the less times his link is mentioned, the better...
Cheers, Stuart
On 1/9/07, Stockphoto Seller <bpslistm...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Of course, search engine rankings are largely meaningless for the stock > photography industry, with search hits having almost no correlation with > sales. Indeed, some of us do not want search engine access to our > specialized images, preferring to give access only to legitimate clients. > Rankings of hits from legitimate stock photo users would be another matter, > but that is not at all what the search engine rankings give. It's better to > spend one's time/money promoting to potential photo users rather than > fiddling around with tweaks to improve one's general, meaningless search > rankings.
> Carl May
> Stuart Elflett <auxo...@gmail.com <auxotic%40gmail.com>> wrote: > And of course, if there is ONE thing a scamming affiliate marketer loves > more than someone visiting his site, it's the link to the site making it > into some forums so it'll go up in search engine rankings, etc - don't > give > the parasites the publicity...
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