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.
Continue reading “The Dance of Sitemaps”The ‘duplicate content’ myth
No, Google will not ‘penalize’ your photos if your descriptions of them contain quotes from Wikipedia.
Continue reading “The ‘duplicate content’ myth”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.

Google Lets Me Live – Barely
In a previous post I related how Google whacked the indexing of about half my pages, following the switch to “mobile first” crawling of my site. And even after the big initial drop, my count of indexed pages was continuing to go down. It looked like the end.
Continue reading “Google Lets Me Live – Barely”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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