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Posted on April 5, 2021April 5, 2021

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 27, 2021

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 August 26, 2020February 27, 2021

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 August 25, 2020November 5, 2020

The ‘duplicate content’ myth

No, Google will not ‘penalize’ your photos if your descriptions of them contain quotes from Wikipedia.

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Posted on July 12, 2020August 26, 2020

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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  • 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
  • The Dance of Sitemaps
  • The ‘duplicate content’ myth
  • Insects with an LED ring flash
  • Halactid beeInsect photography: it’s all in the wrist
  • Honeybee on ButterflyweedA Bug’s World of Color
  • Sitemaps to Nowhere
  • Facebook For Photographers: a Black Hole
  • Brand New Minneapolis
  • Google Lets Me Live – Barely
  • Google Takes It Back
  • IDS Center, MinneapolisIDS Center : Icon of 70s Cool
  • Dynamic Range For Dummies, By A Dummy
  • Macro Confusion
  • High Density Heron Housing
  • Dodging Security Guards
  • Whale Photography For Dummies
  • Not Taken By A Phone
  • Rule of Thirds, and the “Armature”
  • Ancient Tail Lights
  • The Pigeon Photo
  • See it in B&W with “Picture Control”
  • Sometimes the photo just sort of appears…
  • Nicollet Mall In Limbo
  • The Problem of Unloading Old Gear
  • Birds’ Eyes
  • Winter photos on overcast days
  • Google toys with me
  • Skyline of Minneapolis MinnesotaMinneapolis Panoramic
  • Foshay Tower
  • Lenses are the real deal

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