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Tag: Google Search Console

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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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 December 13, 2019February 24, 2022

Google is now indexing my photos! Well maybe.

In a previous post I explained how Google wasn’t indexing my photos at SmugMug, and in another post I detailed how attacked that problem by creating a blog site and putting my SmugMug site on a subdomain.

I think I might be seeing some payoff. But only maybe.

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  • 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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