A photographer in Minneapolis
For about 2 years now, I’ve tried to get Google to index my 700+ photos on Smugmug (and blogged about it, starting here.). At the start, I had 38 photos indexed. Today, after learning a few things about SEO, creating a blog, and jumping through lots of hoops, I have exactly 10. I can’t convey the taste of failure in print – but this is what it looks like:
No, Google will not ‘penalize’ your photos if your descriptions of them contain quotes from Wikipedia.
Continue reading “The ‘duplicate content’ myth”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.
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”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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