[cc-community] How to Promote Your Creative Commons Works?

Lloyd cc at phizz.demon.co.uk
Sun Sep 5 10:21:31 EDT 2010


I get about 100K hits a year on my flickr stream, and my main website 
gets about 1K a month. I don't spend much time on Google Ranking but I 
fix any obvious problems but that's it. I get people linking to the 
photos and pages from sites and forums, so I guess that people looking 
for the content are finding it. However, the content I provide is 
somewhat specialized, so may be that helps in that the site isn't one 
amongst 1000s.

I don't think that the CC license has much to do with whether people 
visit my site or not. I get a handful of hits a year with 
http://search.creativecommons.org/ as a referrer. Again that might be 
due to content. In short I think that people may specifically search out 
CC licensed content if they need to satisfy copyright requirements for 
their own works, otherwise not.

I use Drupal and Wordpress on my site, and I also have a LiveJournal 
account which I'm a bit tardy about updating nowadays. I twitter out 
each new page, and the pages tend to appear in the search engines within 
20-30 minutes.

As I said the content on my site is fairly specialized, for 
non-specialized content one would definitely need to build a community 
around it. I looked at your flickr stream and you have 24 contacts and 
12 groups. It is not enough - there are 5,000 images a minute uploaded 
there so unless you are posing dick or twat shot, you need to be far 
more active in commenting, faving, and participating in groups.

http://professor-moriarty.com



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