Posted on December 13, 2007
Everyone Loves Stats - Flickr Introduces Photo Statistics
BY JENNIFER EUBANKS
Today on the Flickr blog, it was announced that stats are now available for your photos. As of right now, they are only available to Pro users, and you have to go to a page to specifically activate the stats.
The cool thing, according to Flickr's Stats FAQ is that the statistics such as number of views goes back all the way to the date you created the account. Referers are only a few weeks back, until activation, at which time you will have data from then on.
I just activated the stats on my account early this evening and the data is already available for viewing. There are the traditional stats, such as most views, search engine referers, and other view counts.
My favorite feature of the stats though, is the Breakdown of Photos. This tells you, among other things, which photos are not tagged, geotagged, or in sets. If you ever endeavored to get all of your photos properly tagged, but lost track along the way of which ones still needed that info, you can now click on a link to bring up the Organizer, populated with just those images.
Everyone in Online Marketing and SEO lives by statistics--they are a way to gauge how your business efforts are faring. Flickr stats are interesting even from a personal perspective, but they can be even more powerful for clients who utilize Flickr as part of their online presence.
Is there an API?