Ok, I’ve worked out why my flickr stats have gone through the roof. Delving deeper into the flickr stats page, it seems that some of my 2009 Melbourne Motor Show pics have been linked to from a Yahoo! Autos review of the Geneva AutoShow.
Five of the six pictures on this box on the Yahoo! Autos page are mine. The first photo of the yellow Nissan is also the picture receiving the most views in my flickr photostream – it’s now over 10,000 (up 4,500 since my original post 12 hours ago).
Of course, once you have been linked from a high traffic web site like Yahoo! the hits then snowball. Little things like lots of tags (such as “autoshow”) on my photos and giving the best shots a Creative Commons licence would have helped, but I’m amazed at the number of views my flickr site has received.
