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Posted on June 6, 2021February 23, 2022

Google Indexing: My Balloon Loses Air

In a series of posts starting here, I’ve related my efforts to get Google to index my SmugMug photo gallery. It’s time for another update: basically, Google seems to have just pulled that cord that lets the hot air out of my balloon. I’m going down.

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Posted on April 5, 2021February 24, 2022

I Gained Ground against Google – Or Did I?

See that upward hop in my Coverage graph? Something just happened.

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Posted on February 27, 2021February 24, 2022

Eternity, in Google Limbo

Definition of in limbo
1: in a forgotten or ignored place, state or situation
2:  in an uncertain or undecided state or condition

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Posted on September 18, 2020February 24, 2022

Referrer spam: with friends like these…

You’re a photographer with a web site. One morning, you’re having that first cup, checking your site traffic in Google Analytics, and you see you’ve been discovered: over 50 hits already today! From countries all over the world! And they’re still coming in – look, there’s one right now…

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Posted on August 26, 2020February 24, 2022

The Dance of Sitemaps

Since I figured out what was wrong with the sitemap for my blog site, I’ve been getting more posts indexed. But Google is still fiddling with the other sitemap, the one for the photo gallery, and can’t seem to decide what to do with it.

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