How To Get Visitors For Images Website

I'm currently traveling around Asia, and have built up a large collection of travel images. So I've set up a simple website to sell the images as a package. So far I have 10% sales rate, but not many visitors. If I could get more visitors I think I could make this work. But where would be a good place to advertise. Basically, I need people that are interested in buying travel images, so I need adverts in places where people will keep coming to my website. I don't think forum advertising will work because I'll get a few sales and then drop off page one.

Many travel bloggers take their own images, but for those that don't I'm not sure where they hang out. I will set up a facebook page and twitter account, but I still need to get people to these. But how?

I will be taking lots of photos over the next few years, as I'll be traveling to 30-50 countries. But how to get started selling them is where I'm stuck.

Any advice much appreciated.

 

Hi, Try Pinterest which is the best tool to share your inspiration and share it with others. By using pinterest you can get more visitors to your site.

 

create proper website start advertise either through facebook or google advertisment [vouchers]

 

Don't have time or money for that. Far too busy on other projects. If you want to build a website and advertise I can give you 505 commission on all sales you make. At the moment this is just a part-time project with almost zero finance. I'l just testing at the moment, so would be a waste of my time to build a complete website.

 

I'll second the Pinterest thing, though it takes AGES to build up a real following of interested people (much like Twitter et al). Sure, you can buy views but, well... meh.

I'll also add an idea of very short keyworded articles: you start a blog on the same domain, "underneath" the picture gallery (i.e. not even necessarily accessible from it) and use that to pump 100-word posts about photos into Google's search rankings. Short posts, dead quick and easy (and/or cheap), make sure you have a prominent button to the gallery and it brings nice traffic. I used that on several of my gallery sites (though I'm not selling pics, so your setup is probably different) and it works a treat. I can bung you the info on the theme, plugins, etc. if you want it. (Edit: note that it's all free stuff, no cash invested except in hosting.)

This is the best idea: put an offer out there and set up an affiliate scheme. Easy enough through ClickBank or just running it manually, for that matter. Affiliates will put in a lot of effort if the rewards are worth it, including Pinterest, Twitter and other advertising, leaving you to concentrate on what you do best - the photos!

Incidentally, I don't think you can perform reasonable testing without a complete website - it's kind of essential if you're planning on selling online, though I can understand your reticence at investing masses of time into it (hence the idea of doing a quickie blog which is seriously easy to throw together and works well).

 

Very good advice. Much appreciated. I really don't have the time to build a full website as I am busy on other things that are more important.


I like the idea of Clickbank, but I think they need to be able to download the files after purchase. As the files are around 3 GB, that's not really possible. I'll check though, may I can download a few and then link to the rest. Could be a good option. Thanks.

 

Offer someone a manual affiliate setup for that - you know, they build the site, they get 10% of sales through it or 70% for the first 10 sales or something. Free site, someone's happy with commission.

Hmmm. That's a good point. Of course, you need to send the photos so you're going to run into that, anyway... maybe you can give access to a set of zips instead of just one huge file or to a page where they can download. Not sure how CB works with that but given all the "You get all these extras free!" offers I see from there, I'm guessing they have some kind of setup available, even if it's just a workaround with a membership payment.

Speaking of which, if you're basing on WordPress, there's a registration plugin that has a payment gateway built in, though I haven't tried that part of it yet: Pie Register. Simple option that you could manipulate - i.e. do a WP basic install, put Pie Register, set up a single page with the photo download and sell access to that page for downloads or something. Then just duplicate the setup as a separate install on a sub-domain for every photo pack. Unwieldy, yes, but dead quick and easy!

Edit: realised that sounds weird. I mean a sort of pyramid install setup: one install that shows what you've got, then sub-domain installs that give access to the photo pack(s) through a paid registration gateway. I've seen this setup (without payment) on a domain about male escorts (at datingmyass.com, no adult content): the primary has an intro page, then there's two sub-installs - one for women and one for men - which are completely separate, independent WP installations. Works fine, user sees nothing special or difficult (just two "separate" sets of articles) and you can track everything independently or together. Easy peasy.

Anyway, I'm sure there are tons of options. Just trying to throw ideas around in the hopes one sticks!!