If you upload more than 5 at a time make sure your last five are your best and your last one is the best of the best. Your photos are deemed interesting when they have activity. When people tag your photos, comment on your photos, view your photos, leave notes on your photos, and especially when they favorite your photos you increase your interestingness rank.
Be very liberal with your favs. If you see a photo you like on Flickr, fav it. Favs mean more to other Flickr users than comments or tags or notes or anything.
Flickr allows users to search by tags and especially to then rank their search by interestingness. Never take it too seriously. From the Good 'ish Explore Missed group comes this quick advice:. Don't put your image in more than 5 groups, the more groups you are in, the less chance your photo will be explored. Love people in hopes that they will return the favor and love you back.
Generosity is key. They just forgot the most important ingredient: Take great photos! Do not re-post your image over and over again on the same day moving it up in time so that more of your contacts will see it and comment on it. Like a person seeking to be popular by emulating someone other than themselves, Flickr Explore as a poor impersonation of Instagram or anything else was just as much a misguided exercise as Google Plus was.
I had identified about of the images of mine that had passed through the Explore showcase over time , but I eventually found it so uninteresting, I stopped looking. Some were high resolution originals, which I had no interest in exposing to theft. As Explore became less relevant to me, I stopped caring. But worse, my time spent on Flickr became less productive. Flickr was still useful as the most full-featured place for my photographs, with tagging, albums, hosting images for embedding in my blog, and some exposure to its remaining community, but Explore was less relevant, and as users migrated to other services, Google search traffic seemed to dry up.
Fortunately for everyone, the Explore algorithm has been recently updated by the SmugMug-Flickr team:. First up?
Testing to update Explore. I found this out by accident, as a new image upload of mine made it into Explore and someone commented :. I went to the third party tool that tracks which photos have been in Explore, and I found that over of my photos have been selected for explore. To find your own photos featured in Explore, substitute your screen name or Flickr ID number at that link.
Some interesting observations… Some of my better, older work was recently featured. I often re-process my older images, and Flickr enables me to replace the photo one of my favorite Flickr features.
Given the complicated algorithm, changing anything such as adding your photo to a group or adding a tag can kick your photo in or out of Explore.
So if you replace a photo and maybe accept a group invitation you missed or put it in a group, it may get more activity, and Flickr may detect recognize the improvements. Or maybe a human does. Either way, continuing to invest in Flickr, even with older images, can deliver new benefits. Flickr Tip 3: Don't add your photo into too many groups. Go through your groups and decide which ones give you the best return on investment. Which groups produce views and comments, and which ones don't?
Adding your photo into an excessive number of groups will hurt your interestingness score. Flickr Tip 4: Post your photo early in the morning. Remember that explore includes the most interesting photos on the site during one calendar day. Common sense says that the longer you have your line in the water, the more fish you'll catch. Flickr Tip 5: Take eye-catching photos. I think one reason for this is that your photo has to look creative or unique from a thumbnail size.
Photos that are not colorful, or photos with fine detail that can only be noticed when enlarged will not get as many views because it won't prompt people to click on the thumbnail if it looks dull from that size.
Let's be honest, just because your photo appears on the explore page doesn't mean that it's a great photo. Personal Note: If you've checked my Flickr photostream lately, you know that I rarely update it. I'm mostly wrapped up in paying photography gigs lately, so I don't have much time to be social on Flickr. Personally, I really don't care how popular my photos are. I really use it as a way to share photos from photowalks to my local group of photographers. It's just a fun thing and a lot of people want to know how to get on Explore.
That's why I wrote this article. Thanks for tips, particularly agree with the one about being social, networks generate views. This is not a set of tricks, but an attempt to make observations on why explored photos have in common.
Nice thips thank you about them.
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