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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 July 12, 2020February 24, 2022

Sitemaps to Nowhere

I’ve related (starting here) my long struggle to get my photo work indexed by Google – an uphill battle. But recently, I tangled with sitemaps and eventually made a breakthrough.

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Posted on May 26, 2020February 24, 2022

Google Takes It Back

About a month ago, Google Analytics notified me that my site would now be indexed “mobile first”. I soon found out that this not good news.

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Posted on December 3, 2019February 24, 2022

SmugMug via a subdomain

In a previous post I explained why I decided to point my domain to a blog, and put my SmugMug gallery on a subdomain: because that should create better ‘authority’ for my domain, and possibly better indexing and search ranking of my images. And with a pitiful domain authority score of 3, and hardly any indexing, I had nothing to lose.

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All Posts

  • How Big Is That Fish Eye, Really?
  • White Balance For Dummies – By A Dummy
  • Red-wings
  • Ride The Rails
  • The Great Blue Herons Are Back
  • The Cyclist
  • Street and Sky
  • Young Owls
  • Cardinals
  • The Perfect POD
  • Capture One and Lightroom: why I don’t like catalogs
  • SmugMug SEO and Google – An Epitaph
  • Birds In Winter
  • The Pergear 10mm Pancake Fisheye Lens
  • Why Is Facebook So Bad?
  • SmugMug: Where Photography Goes To Hide
  • Tuning Dials and Channel Knobs: Retro Tech
  • Why Does Duotoning Work?
  • ICC printer profiles: how does that work, exactly?
  • As Good As A Phone…?
  • Make Even More
  • An old Ford rusts peacefully in a farmer's field.A Ford’s Journey
  • Hummingbird Photography for Dummies
  • Smugmug and Google: The Taste of Failure
  • Downtown In The Rain
  • Protect your photos with an AIR GAP
  • Google Indexing: My Balloon Loses Air
  • Windows 10 Ransomware protection
  • Nicollet Island Railroad Bridge
  • Our Photo Bandwidth Is Declining
  • Just The Street
  • The Nautilus Spiral
  • I Gained Ground against Google – Or Did I?
  • Sky Replacement: Go Big or Go Home
  • My 1x.com Experience
  • Eternity, in Google Limbo
  • Photograph of the Old Cedar Bridge in Bloomington, Minnesota.Start by giving up.
  • Photograph of the Ford Parkway bridge in MinneapolisThe Fence
  • What Chuck Close said…
  • Color Spaces and POD sites: a gamut of confusion
  • DPI: a concept you should forget.
  • Blue Tracks on Vinyl
  • Carhenge, and car keys
  • A Train to Nowhere
  • OneDrive photo backup: keywords vanish in the cloud…
  • A Megamall Parking Ramp
  • IDS Center, MinneapolisThe “Shift” of a Tilt-Shift Adapter
  • Referrer spam: with friends like these…
  • Power on the Mississippi
  • Minneapolis, darker

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