akmc_in_au wrote:ed_k wrote:I have been posting in parallel at SmugMug and PBase for these several months and will continue to do that at least until my PBase subscription expires. Once getting past the differences between the two sites (apart from speed and reliability) your choice will come done to personal preference & style. For myself, I could easily live with either - or better (dream on) a hybrid of the best of both.
No flames needed; just trying to pass on one person's experience.
Just out of curiosity, Ed, do you find that you're getting more hits / comments from your SmugMug or your PBase galleries, or is it about the same? It'd be interesting to know since you're posting in parallel.
I'm getting far more hits and comments (both) at SmugMug on my daily photo than at PBase for the same photo posted in my PAD gallery. SmugMug offers "communities", one of which is Daily Photos, and the gallery where I'm getting the hits is connected to the Daily Photo community. I get well over a hundred hits & usually 5-15 comments per daily photo at SmugMug - at PBase the comparable numbers are 25-40 hits and 0-4 comments. I don't comment myself at either spot and make the identical post (including descriptive text) so in that sense it's a fair measure. Here's an actual recent example -
SmugMug - 0ver 500 hits & 9 comments >>
http://ed-k-photo.smugmug.com/gallery/6 ... 7723_jtPU6PBase - 20 page views & 1 comment >>
http://www.pbase.com/ed_k/image/107408317It took me almost four years to get 1,000,000 page views at PBase (that's probably pretty slow but I don't belong to any of the "gangs" where a dozen or more reciprocal "wow's" are exchanged daily - nothing wrong with that, just not my style & takes more time that I have). I would expect to pass 1,000,000 hits at SmugMug well before the first year is up.
There are many display & community options at SmugMug - almost none of which I've pursued in depth yet, so this isn't a "scientific" test. I suspect if my daily gallery were not connected to the SmugMug Daily Photo community the results would be far different (but PAD at PBase versus Daily Photo at SmugMug should show apples versus apples figures). On the other hand, tie the SmugMug gallery into multiple active communities and I suspect the numbers would soar.
I hope this helps.