Getting Your ClickaSnap Pictures Seen
Finding clusters of people outside the Platform to view the Photos
The concept of The Small World limits the number of people who see what you upload. Your efforts need to involve breaking out of the confines.
As a short description of the nature of the Small World it means no matter how large a total population is, only a compact few people will ever see your material and engage with it. Even though there are over 1 million ClickaSnap subscriber, only about 1,250 of them have ever visited my profile and seen even one of my photos. Even so, 976 have visited my profile only once. This means about 275 subscribers have visited two or more times with the higher numbers fewer than 5 times.
Everyone who discovers a photo of mine did so for a few different reasons. But to do it they had to chance upon it by seeing it on the Explore page, seeing it as a Related image to one from someone else, or someone they already follow shared it into their Feed.
The first two methods are the result of the server algorithms choosing what is presented. The Related suggestions though driven algorithmically are also helped by my tags, file name and description. The point I am making is only a very few people become familiar with anything one uploads. And that only happens through linkages among the image data fields.
The Small Worlds concept includes the value of being indirectly linked through intermediaries. You may have a friend or acquaintance who counts as one link. But their friends and acquaintances count as your “weak links” to you. The more of them the better. There is a third, fourth and so on level which vastly expands your connectedness.
Even your best friend doesn’t add much to your circle if they don’t provide a useful connection to other people.
This is in part what internet “influencers” strive to attain. Then only a few ever become successful while the majority struggle along failing to be influential.
This all being said, relying only on fellow CAS subscribers to view your photos will only result in limited results. It’s the outside world beyond the Small World of CAS which has the potential for viewership.
The profile accounts you’ve seen which have many hundreds or thousands of views on hundreds or thousands of photos have a fan base in the outside world. They brings those connections to CAS rather than out from CAS.
The avenue for getting more different people to see your pictures is to get links to them in the places they are already looking. Places like FB, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, etc. yields the greater results for lesser efforts.
Putting your work out with the crowd is both beneficial and detrimental. It’s beneficial in that it gets seen at all. It’s detrimental in that what you create must rise above the ambient noise of the crowd.
Treading the middle ground holds the greatest promise.
Specialty sites on the internet provides a filter to keep the noise of millions of users who have the same goals and objectives as yourself.
In our dog-eat-dog world there is no shortage if people who seek to get the attention of everyone else. They are less interested in giving their attention to anyone. Striking that balance creates a better environment for getting the attention you want.
When pursuing the profiles on ClickaSnap I seen no shortage of the one time visitor who views one photo and hits Follow. When looking at their profile there is 1 up to maybe 5 images to see. They were prompting for attention for themselves. If they later come back to look at more and have more of their own, I might be encouraged to look at what they have to offer. They are trying to rise above the noise.
Finding small populations of interested people is the most difficult of marketing tasks.
While one might have a wealth of classic cars photos to stare and there are Facebook groups dedicated to that topic many administrators and moderators are highly protective of their groups and pages. Some will summarily block CAS posting solely on the basis of there being a link in it or the image already being “shared from outside the group”. Your post of a picture is in part to generate interest and activity for your larger collection, not merely the one photo. Blocking links is protectionist on their part but is also a reason to cross that page/group from further efforts.