As I spelled out in some detail in my post, Schema for Foogallery Pages, I have expended no small amount of energy to learn something about website practices with regard to satisfying the ever changing and expanding requirements to get new website content listed on Google. When first I started, Google was indexing my blog posts and pages within days, sometimes within hours, of posting them. But, as Google’s hoops became more complicated, I started paying more attention to Google’s recommendations to assure continued listing in the search results.
Unfortunately, Google has now effectively ceased to index new content on my site, so I am losing ground and not gaining anything. As their algorithm becomes more attuned to commercial interests, noncommercial personal websites are understandably not going to figure high on their list of priorities. It’s occurred to me to just strip out all the SEO, Schema enhancements, tags, metadata, and related plug-ins from this site. But, since kruegerphoto.com still manages to get swiftly indexed by other search engines, I’ll continue to at least keep up with the SEO implementations I already utilize.
In the early days of the web, the only way websites became known is the internet equivalent of “word of mouth”. Websites had “links” pages and website owners would commonly swap links. I had such a page consisting of links to other sites without regard for reciprocation. In fact, I usually included thumbnails (with permission) and a brief description for photography websites .
I have already started a web page (not yet published) of “resource” links that will include other photographer sites that I believe may be of interest to analog photography enthusiasts. When that’ll be ready to publish, I have no idea. My To-Do list is far exceeds my expected lifespan.
In other news, I am currently scanning images for the coming Toronto Gallery from my 2013 photo expedition to that city. Toronto is an exceptional city for cityscape photography and if that weren’t enough, Canadians are perhaps the most friendly people on earth.
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