Yes, blogging and creating an online identity is certainly a good idea (btw, who does not already do that these days?). But you have to have a purpose for doing it. One example is what I've been doing for some time here: http://wine-pictures.blogspot.com/ driving traffic mostly to http://www.bkwinephotography.com/. The blog also serves some other purposes too.
"you will end up making more money from the advertising"
-- That, however, is quite far fetched and very unlikely. It is very difficult to make any significant amount of money on advertising. Either you have to have very large numbers of visitors (and as a photographer you won't). Or you have to be in a very specific niche and sell your own advertising, which is a big job in itself. That's at least my experience of this. Perhaps you have other experiences.
-Per Karlsson
http://www.bkwinephotography.com/
--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "Fred" <freddyv@...> wrote:
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> I agree with this 100%. I also believe that there is an answer for many and that is to learn how to generate traffic from your images. The easy way to start doing so is to go to http://www.blogger.com and start a free blog. Post images every day and link them to their image pages on Photoshelter, Alamy or wherever you license your images.
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> But don't just give the image a title, write about the place where you took the image or how you took the image or what equipment you used or... and learn how to write to attract visitors because in the long run you will end up making more money from the advertising than from selling licenses or prints.
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> That's one way to do it. I would love to hear of other ideas.
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> Fred Voetsch
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