Rank This!
PhotoRank is a brand new feature at SmugMug. You may have noticed those green and red thumbs. So, what are they, and why’d we do it? The idea is to answer two questions we’ve been hearing for a very long time:
1. How do I find the most popular photos of (Rome, hot-air ballons, bike racing, equestrian jumping…etc)?
2. I want my great photos to float to the top somehow and get noticed. How do I do that?
We get loads of traffic, millions and millions of visitors, every day to SmugMug – and much of that traffic uses our Browse page. Our old browse page was erem, not as good as it is now… so check it out, and see! Already, pros are writing me saying that they’ve been “found” by new customers via this cool new feature. And being “found” means new clients, new gigs, and more business!
Some of you would like to know how to turn it OFF. No problem, we have an easy way to do that! Check out the help page above, or visit Digital Grin and find out how.
Now, before you go and say “ewwwwww gross – I don’t want to ruin my pristine photos with those thumbs,” think about this: you’re online already – you depend on “being found!” Why not do everything and anything possible to increas that chance? Smart, huh? So before you nuke the thumbs for your entire site, and miss out on a bazillion eyeballs each day, consider this: enable PhotoRank on some of your galleries – your portfolio samples, etc. Oh and don’t forget to keyword the heck out of them, too, so that you will be found via SmugMug search and the traditional search engines as well.
I’m available to help – you know where to find me!
