Make Money For Your Pictures
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Vume
Vume (pronounced view-me) offers an ad revenue-share for pictures uploaded on their site. The pictures have to be 100% created by you. The upside to using Vume is it offers you a lot more exposure with their easy interface. The style of the website is much cleaner than some other sites offering the same service. The downside is that Vume is ranked 57,000 on Alexa, which is low in comparison to the others. They have only been around since April 2007 so they may see a lot of growth in the upcoming year.
Share-a-Pic
Share-a-Pic lets you put your own adsense on your galleries which means you keep the profits from the clicks. They are also ranked higher - 2,700. The downside is that the layout is horrible. There are annoying pop-ups and there are no member profiles or comment options. To use the forums you have to have at least 5 successful galleries. I'm guessing this is to keep the people who haven't made money from scaring off new users. Here is their 90's looking public gallery:
My suggestion is to link your galleries to your myspace, blogs, and other sites if you want to make money with this site.
Flixya
It has similar features to vume only with more traffic. There are comment options, member profiles, and rating systems for the pictures. You put your own adsense on the site, which means 100% revenue. The only downside is flixya also has their own ads up so the site tends to look flooded with ads.
Places to sell your photography
Royalty-free stock photography sites are the easiest ways to sell your photos on the web. Many web designers use their services. These are the three most popular sites that are hiring photographers:
Shutterstock
Buyers subscribe for a period of time and get unlimited downloads.
IStockPhoto
Photo prices range from $1-$15. Photographers make 20% of the profit.
Fotolia
Photo prices range from $1-$3. Photographers make from 33%-80%, depending on their rank
More information about stock photography is available at photosecrets.com
Very good post, I am not trying to make any money online or through my blog, but this post is very informative.
some great ideas here. thanks for posting.
i also added your site to my technorati faves.
keep up the good work,
--steve
No problem, thanks for reading :)
Interesting!!
I wish Flickr was paying me!!
If i had a Dime for every......
;))
This is new to me, thanks for sharing this useful info :)
nice list you have, i only know share-a-pic recently... now you provide so many list...thank alot
-iCalvyn.com
thanks for this info ;)
thanks for this info ;)
Instead of posting your pictures to these other sites and having your adsense on there, wouldn't it be better to create your own website or blog specifically for pictures and place the adsense on there? That way, you know that you are getting all of the profits. Why use someone else's platform? Or is it a popularity thing (i.e. Flickr and other photos sites already have lots of traffic) ?
Its definitely a popularity thing, at least for me. Its easier to make money on adsense when a site is already getting traffic. You can probably make money in the long run from a photo blog, but you have to worry about page rank, seo, traffic, etc. Its much easier just to post on a picture sharing site
great article!