Testing Shutterstock's Mini Gallery

Okay. So Shutterstock have a section whereby stock photographers can promote their images on their own websites. Sounds good. I really should be doing this sort of promotion as there's so much competition in stock and images not in the first few search pages can easily get lost.

So I'm going to try 'Mini-Gallery' which, if successful, will display both my latest images and my best-sellers in a box for potential buyers to click. I've already downloaded a whole heap of html code which it says to paste into my website.

So here goes:

My latest images for sale at Shutterstock:

My most popular images for sale at Shutterstock:

Did it work? All I can see on Blogger is about 20 lines of gobbledegook. I'll assume I've done something wrong and try it again:

My latest images for sale at Shutterstock:

My most popular images for sale at Shutterstock:

There. Is that better? Are there lots of lovely stock photos which you can't resist clicking on and purchasing? Thought not.

Hold on. I've got an idea. I'm going to publish the post in Blogger, rather than just preview it. Perhaps that'll work. If not it's back to the drawing board.

Get on! We have a result. Now I need to work out how to draw a smily face in html...

iStock Partner Program Finally Working!

For some reason none of the images I uploaded to iStock since August 2009 had been selling on their Partner sites. I've written countless messages and kept getting the 'they will be picked up on the next sweep' reply. Well, I'm pleased to say they have finally looked into it and some of my images are now appearing, in fact I've already made 55 sales in a very short period of time.

This image, for example, has made 14 sales alone. Compare that to only 17 on the main iStock site since May 2008 and it becomes clear how popular the likes of Thinkstock is.

I know the amount is lower but if I'm able to increase my portfolio I'm confident that the iStock Partner Program will reap a fair reward.