Analytics: July 2013

Warm, sunny weather used to mean a slowdown in traffic for Wonderful Machine, as creatives went on vacations rather than searching for photographers. However, this July we saw a significant increase in traffic from last year. Also, good news: many of our photographers were out shooting assignments. This might have something to do with the 17,490 visits our search site had—a 23% increase from July 2012. The blog also had a good month with 22,304 visits, which is up 24% from last year.

Here’s a look at the search traffic throughout July:

Our members received a collective total of 18,686 clicks from Wonderful Machine. Here are our top clicked photographers for July:

And here are a few recent Wonderful Machine successes we heard about from our photographers and users:

• “Wonderful Machine is always my first search when looking for a photographer!” – Photo Editor/Sierra Magazine
• Saatchi & Saatchi found Patrick Cavan Brown/Flat Rock, North Carolina on Wonderful Machine and hired him for a project with Procter & Gamble.
• “Since joining Wonderful Machine I have had three commissions. One of those clients is now commissioning me on a regular basis. I think it is a great start and look forward to more growth.” – Richard Humphries/Selangor, Malaysia
• “Things are moving along quite well out here. In fact, I was booked on a five-day road trip travel job this morning by the Guardian and they found me on WM—good stuff.” – Hollis Bennett/Nashville, Tennessee
• “Condé Nast Traveller‘s Director of Photography found me through the WM website. She used one of my images for their “Where Are You” double page feature. So, thanks!” – Chris Sorensen/Hong Kong, China
• “I wanted to let you know that I just finished up a shoot for Diet Mountain Dew, thanks to you guys! An agency in Denver found me on Wonderful Machine and all went great from there.” – Matt Jones/Dallas, Texas
• “2013 has been my best year in business by far. This is due in very large part to WM and the reputation you guys have built. I photographed my biggest job to date in January. I continued to work with NY-based editorial clients who first found me through WM. And I have gotten calls from new clients out of the blue.” – Rob Culpepper/Birmingham, Alabama

As for the blog, here’s what its traffic looked like in July:

These were our most popular posts in July:

• Photo Editing: Anatomy Of Vandenoever’s Edit
• Zack Arias’s Photography Q&A: Real Questions. Real Answers.

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