I share my photos online on two sites. My purpose in doing so is to share with friends far and near, and to open myself up to serendipity and see what happens.
Smugmug was the one I used first, starting in June 2007. I just used it as a photo gallery and didn't take advantage of any of the community aspects. I didn't comment on other people's photos, and nobody has commented on any of mine.
I started using Flickr around a year ago. It's the site my local photographic group uses, so there's a community aspect to it as well. We comment on each other's photos. Since I started using Flickr more, I pretty much stopped uploading photos to my Smugmug account.
Now here's the puzzle. I'm been active on Flickr and passive on Smugmg. I know people on Flickr and I know nobody on Smugmug. YET the site stats show that I get far more views on Smugmug than I do on Flickr. According to the Smugmug stats, in the past 24 hours or so I've had 266 views. During the same period on Flickr, I've had 3. Admittedly I have around half the number of photos on Flickr as I do on Smugmug, but the ones on Flickr have been much more recently uploaded.
My question is this: Why is there the huge disparity in my views between the two sites? Especially bearing in mind that I'm active on Flickr and not at all on Smugmug