--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "BobC" <bobclsf@...> wrote:
>
> @Fred,
>...
> I have some questions I hope you might answer.
> You have on your site links to getty and jupiter and wondered why u have links to "competitors"?
> do you contact the individual websites to make a deal for them to be linked on your site for x$ per hit?
> or use Google to do so?
> Do the site u link from your site, also have reciprocal links to your site?
>
The short answer is that once I decided (by almost going bankrupt) that I wasn't going to make it with a Getty Images type of business model I went back to doing what I am good at and that is web marketing of images: photos, posters, art prints, clip art, etc, and that is when I started placing ads on Acclaim Images.
The ads are served by Google Adsense and they do an amazing job of monetizing web traffic, which I have always been good at generating.
BTW, I would gladly trade links with Getty Images or Corbis; because of their high pagerank I would gain more than they, but you can rest assured that such large companies don't even consider doing that type of web marketing.
Whether or not anyone else should have ads or not is a question that they must answer. Ads and affiliate programs are what I initially succeeded with online and are what I am comfortable with and good at so I go with it.
Fred Voetsch
Group Moderator - Selling Stock Photography
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/selling_stock_photography/
Owner - Acclaim Images, LLC
http://www.acclaimimages.com/
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