Free Images at What Price?

by pizzatherapy

Posted: 11 years ago 14 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I recently came across a website which offers free images for your website or blog.

Imonomy offers free images which are supposedly content based.

The deal is you put a bit of code on your website of blog and the service will find images which are content related to your page

according to the company:

imonomy has developed a special algorithmic engine, which is able to analyze any text in order to instantly find content-related images. This unique engine also creates intelligent links between your website pages, which are meant to encourage website visitors to stay on your pages longer. The interactive links make it easier to navigate through more of your websites content, and the best part is, imonomy is free!

Here is the link:

Get Free Images | imonomy

How they make money is by displaying their own ads on your page, which are supposedly non-intrusive.

They also have an income component:

After successful integration, we offer the option to share revenue back with you

My question is:

Has anyone tried this service? What do you think?

Do you feel the trade off of having code from an outside source to generate images worthwhile?

#free #images #price

datingworld 11 years ago

Originally Posted by pizzatherapy

How they make money is by displaying their own ads on your page, which are supposedly non-intrusive.

If this is the case, then it cannot be called free images
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pizzatherapy 11 years ago

How true... We all know nothing is really free, but the question is: is it worth it.
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thedanbrown 11 years ago

You're better off just outsourcing graphics rather than letting someone else run ads on your site because I feel like in most cases it takes a lot away from the visitors experience. Never heard of anyone using this service though
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- arkina 11 years ago
  
  Why not just use another site for free images? One that does not put ads on your site?
  
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twister85 11 years ago

The doesn't worth at all. we cannot let anyone to put link and advertisement to ruin the beauty of our presentation right?
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hsbinmarket 11 years ago

I did not try yet, Sir!
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Thriftypreneur 11 years ago

They probably just randomly substitute the image with an adsense-like advertising block in place of the image.

In which case, why anyone would do that when they can get decent quality images, that you select to enhance your content, for a dollar or less at places like PhotoDune.net and DepositPhotos.com, is beyond me.

Even with revenue sharing, you're still going to be better served by buying your own image and keeping 100% of your advertising.
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curationsoft 11 years ago

with that deal, i don't the images are free at all
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Donimo 11 years ago

Originally Posted by hsbinmarket

I did not try yet, Sir!

Originally Posted by leoj888

this sites looks cool,they may post ads sometime on your site,so they can get revenue from it

Originally Posted by curationsoft

with that deal, i don't the images are free at all

Quit the bs posts please. Getting sick of this kind of stuff, this forms beginning to remind me of another...

Personally, I would never give someone free ads on my site for the sake of an image. Unless the image was super high quality or even exclusive to my site there's no way it would be to a financial benefit unless your site never makes any money anyway!
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- DJL 11 years ago
  
  They are not free, but I have often found excellent graphics very reasonably priced at https://us.fotolia.com/
  
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rosetrees 11 years ago

I suppose, if you have a low traffic site, then it's worth it. But why would you run ads that you don't get any revenue from? Better, I would have thought, to spend a little while finding suitable images yourself and then adding some unobtrusive ads from which you can gain an income.

Just my thoughts, 'cos I've never actually tried that service. I mostly use my own photos.
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rosetrees 11 years ago

Yes Jordan, I just looked at their website. I was wrong. I was assuming that they got all the revenue. My bad.
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seobro 11 years ago

I like the pretty pictures, but they are not matching the content I am using. People get that for which they pay. Sadly, that is true now more an ever.
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Social App Zone 11 years ago

Interesting idea. I could not work out from that site how intrusive the ads would be or exactly how it worked. Even the advertiser details did not explain very well how it worked.

Would like to see an actual site working with this.
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