Midnight sun
Mar 3rd, 2008 by Juha Ylitalo
This photograph about midnight sun was my first photograph that I ever managed to sell for real money. It was used in a set for television series, where they needed photograph about midnight sun in Lapland. Photograph was taken 30 minutes before the moment, when sun reaches the lowest point on sky before it once again starts to rise higher. Hopefully I will see similar trend in my blog, because February’s results on income and traffic are really low in comparison to January results, that I was seriously thinking whether or not I want to publish them.
Traffic
Here are combined traffic results from my three blogs and photo albums. Figures are taken directly from Google Analytics.
Overview
8,728 visits (-16%)
31,164 page views (-55%)
7,113 users (-15%)
Most popular content
English blog 9% (-0%)
Finnish blog 4% (-16%)
Traffic came from
Google: 46% (-18%)
Entrecard: 21% (-5%)
direct: 9% (+23%)
digicamera.net: 7% (-15%)
These depressing figures make me wonder, if it was mistake to install sitemap plugin into my Wordpress blogs, since I have photo albums (that are static HTML pages) under same domain and those photo albums are not part of sitemap files. I am going to disable sitemap for March to see, if they have any effect to statistics.
To make things little bit more confusing, I will also stop from buying new Entrecard ads (even though I am going to keep Entrecard widget in its current place) as an experiment to see, if I can get traffic quality go up.
Income
Google AdSense: USD51.66 (-42.45%)
Project Wonderful: USD1.99
Amazon.co.uk: GBP0.00
TradeDoubler: EUR0.00
These figures are misleading in a sense, that Project Wonderful was only used for couple weeks in beginning of February. TradeDoubler on the other hand is newcomer, that was taken into use in last week of February. I am going to test on my finnish pages for March to see, if their affiliate deals would bring some additional income to Google AdSense earnings.
One thing that is clear from these figures is that it is finally time to remove Amazon.co.uk banners. I’ve also implemented filter that will stop showing Google Ads to visitors from sitehoppin.com and Entrecard as an effort to avoid being smart priced in Google AdSense.
Technical details: Canon PowerShot G3 (28.8mm, 1/125s, f/5.6, ISO50)
Wow, that is a beautiful photograph!
So Beautiful!
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Exquisite! I’m hoping you did get plenty of money for that
Disappointing about the traffic. I haven’t been with Entrecard for long enough to judge properly but I’m finding it takes quite a lot of effort. Most of my traffic comes from advertising but it isn’t what you’d call quality traffic.
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I think the price that production company paid was around 60 euros (or at least that seems to be average price on photo agency, that handled the sale). From that sum photo agency took about halfa and from remaining money, finnish counterpart for IRS took almost half.
So general rule of thumb is that photographer gets about 25% of the full price after photo agency and IRS has got their shares. With that rule of thumb, my share (that went directly into my bank account) must have been within 15-20 euros and some more might have come back on tax returns, since my income from photographs is less than 300 euros per year.
Absolutely beautiful! I’ve never seen a midnight sun in person. You photo looks like it’s coming in at high-def.
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