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Photoshelter review photo website
What is Photoshelter ?
Photoshelter is a website that offers photographer services to publish their works and porfolio online. Comparable with SmugSmug or flickr. Photoshelter offers photographer to have their own website on a photoshelter domain.
Recently I received a voucher to try Photoshelter free for 1 month.
Starting up
Setting your website
At the first glance while logging in, Photoshelter is really user friendly. You can start picking your subdomain name, theme and customizing your photography portfolio website. Photoshelter offers quite some good looking customizable theme at your choice. I created this simple good looking website in less than 1 hour.
Start selling your photos
As I’ve already have a portfolio website, my real purpose to use Photoshelter is actually to sell my works. I immediately created price and license profile and assigned it to all my macro-stock photos. I’m able to define the prices of photos according to it’s sizes and license options.
SEO ?
One of the main marketing point by Photoshelter is the SEO functionality offered by Photoshelter. I believe the portfolio website on Photoshelter has been SEO optimized. However, do take note that you do not receive any advantage on photoshelter.com domain as you will be creating a subdomain on photoshelter, eg yourname.photoshelter.com which Google treats as a brand new domain name.
Its been almost 30 days since I’ve been using Photoshelter and I’ve only received a single public view on my 70 uploaded photos. I did not receive a single sale on Photoshelter as my real purpose is only to sell photos on that website. It’s time to delete the account as 29.99 USD is quite pricey for a portfolio website 
Summary
Cons
- 29.99 USD standard account montly is pricey
- Photoshelter still takes maximum 10% comission for your sales although you are paying them monthly fees
Pros
- User friendly
- Not much technical skills needed for non-IT literate photographer
- You can create your portfolio website within hours
- Integrated e commerce
- Forget all the webhosting technicality
- Emphasis on SEO
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Nuffnang analytics not working ?
Nuffnang analytics is one of the user friendlier website analytic tools compared to other analytic tools. It actually comes when you install Nuffnang advertisement into your blog or website. However this tool may not be so perfect and accurate compared to google analytics. As of many other softwares , everything is prone to failure. Once a blue moon, do expect it not to work properly and you may not see you data on it.
I’ve recently experienced a few days outage and I decided to check on the cause. It was actually some updated wordpress plugins that I used that were conflicting with Nuffnang codes. If you experienced this , here are a few steps to troubleshoot it
- If you do not see data suddenly , it may be issue on the server side. Sometimes things break.
- If its more than 48 hours , it would be wise to check the code and your side. Reverify whether there are any broken Nuffnang ads codes
- If issue persist even you have confirmed the code , you should make attempt to contact nuffnang support team at their website
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How to track nuffnang clicks with google analytics?
Are you one of those who get comparatively high impressions and CTR on adsense but however receive nothing from nuffnang at at all ? Anyway I’ve been using nuffnang with adsense on one of my sites for past few months , below would be the results of both advertising solutions for a few months,
1) Results from Adsense
2) Results from nuffnang
The result from nuffnang seems pretty pathetic. I’m getting 597 clicks from adsense compare to 1 click on nuffnang since early this year. I’ve also placed nuffnang ads on better location compared to adsense however it made no difference. So , on one fine day I decided to track nuffnang clicks independently to verify whether these clicks are recorded on nuffnang system.
What do you need ?
- Google analytics account already installed into your website
- Cut and paste some code.
Anyway to track the particular nuffnang ads , first you need to add additional google analytics javascript at the end of </head> section of the page to be tracked. Cut and paste the code below before the </head> section of the html code.
<script type=”text/javascript”>
function recordOutboundLink(link, category, action) {
_gat._getTrackerByName()._trackEvent(category, action);
setTimeout(‘document.location = “‘ + link.href + ‘”‘, 100);
}
</script>
Next , you will need to tag your nuffnang ads with a div tag . Add a <div> </div> around the nuffnang ads.
<div>
<!– nuffnang –>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
nuffnang_bid = “******************************”;
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://synad2.nuffnang.com.my/j.js” ></script>
<!– nuffnang–></div>
You need to add a onclick event into the div tag , onClick=”recordOutboundLink(this, ‘Outbound Links’, ’nuffnangclicks’);return false;”
<div onClick=”recordOutboundLink(this, ‘Outbound Links’, ’nuffnangclicks’);return false;“>
<!– nuffnang –>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
nuffnang_bid = “******************************”;
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://synad2.nuffnang.com.my/j.js” ></script>
<!– nuffnang–></div>
You will have wait a while for the analytics to collect the data first . To access the report , go to analytics menu -> content -> event tracking
Now on the overview , you should be able to see how much clicks you are receiving on that particular advertistment.
I’ve installed the code for several days and there seems to be clicks on my nuffnang advertisement. I emailed support and they said that everything is fine on their side and they do not reveal their payment policy. Seems like I’ve wasted my ads space with nuffnang in vain. Maybe it’s time to remove it from that site.
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