Gentoo penguins are my favorites.
All photos in my little penguin photo gallery are penguin photos.
Links are also published on Dgrin.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Smugmug URL's - Blog from Garret Wilson
Found this blog:
Garret Wilson Blog 2008-04-21 Ridiculous SmugMug URLs which describes very accurately the URL structure in Smugmug.
I would not call it Ridiculous, but it does make it really difficult to get famous when you have chosen Smugmug as your photo host site.
Garret Wilson Blog 2008-04-21 Ridiculous SmugMug URLs which describes very accurately the URL structure in Smugmug.
I would not call it Ridiculous, but it does make it really difficult to get famous when you have chosen Smugmug as your photo host site.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Is it possible to get Smugmug photos into Google Image Search?
Photos in Smugmug have a good chance of being indexed by Google Image search if Google robots know about the /Large type of pages.
I have constructed a HTML-page which links to 6 different photos to test this:
Photo gallery with penguins from Antarctica
If I am successful in this (takes a month or more to find out) then I can´t move the photos to another gallery. If I do this then the links will be invalid due to the very strange way Smugmug build an URL.
Update 2010-10-17: It is possible to make a Google friendly page in Smugmug. Create a gallery with no photos and code a HTML only page with embedded photos, header tags etc. However - this is a highly unproductive way do make Google friendly pages, so I have stopped using Smugmug as a photo hosting site. My penguin images are now moved to Penguin life in Antarctica.
I have constructed a HTML-page which links to 6 different photos to test this:
Photo gallery with penguins from Antarctica
If I am successful in this (takes a month or more to find out) then I can´t move the photos to another gallery. If I do this then the links will be invalid due to the very strange way Smugmug build an URL.
Update 2010-10-17: It is possible to make a Google friendly page in Smugmug. Create a gallery with no photos and code a HTML only page with embedded photos, header tags etc. However - this is a highly unproductive way do make Google friendly pages, so I have stopped using Smugmug as a photo hosting site. My penguin images are now moved to Penguin life in Antarctica.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Smugmug ignores the Image search problem.
I thought that Smugmug was up to date with the principles of effective image search by popular image searching from Google, Yahoo, MSN and others They are not. They live in a world that stopped for at least 5 years ago.
Google Image Search indexes for example only ca. 1% of their images, and half of them refer to another picture on Smugmug than the image you see at Google's image search.
As a reference 50% of my pictures posted on Panoramio are indexed.
If Smugmug cannot find a solution to this little problem, then what is the advantage of a big site like Smugmug, if your images are not visible in search engines?
Ida think that I should make my own photo agency on the net with all the necessary functions, and it may also be the end result.
Smugmug is a great and old-fashioned company who have lost all sense of reality and they have indeed gone down in Google's rating of 8 to 7 not long ago and will probably go down further if they do not improve very soon.
So, SMUGMUG, do something very soon.
Their forum DGRIN are as always helpful with all kind of primitive workarounds, but when it comes to really serious questions, they simply do not even bother to react. It is really BIG company against "little stupid customer".
This is really not what I expected of a "respectable" company like Smugmug.
This Image Search (and normal text search) issue have been a problem for a lot of their customer for at least 2 years. They have done absolutely NOTHING so far.
So, once more, SMUGMUG, do something very soon.
Google Image Search indexes for example only ca. 1% of their images, and half of them refer to another picture on Smugmug than the image you see at Google's image search.
As a reference 50% of my pictures posted on Panoramio are indexed.
If Smugmug cannot find a solution to this little problem, then what is the advantage of a big site like Smugmug, if your images are not visible in search engines?
Ida think that I should make my own photo agency on the net with all the necessary functions, and it may also be the end result.
Smugmug is a great and old-fashioned company who have lost all sense of reality and they have indeed gone down in Google's rating of 8 to 7 not long ago and will probably go down further if they do not improve very soon.
So, SMUGMUG, do something very soon.
Their forum DGRIN are as always helpful with all kind of primitive workarounds, but when it comes to really serious questions, they simply do not even bother to react. It is really BIG company against "little stupid customer".
This is really not what I expected of a "respectable" company like Smugmug.
This Image Search (and normal text search) issue have been a problem for a lot of their customer for at least 2 years. They have done absolutely NOTHING so far.
So, once more, SMUGMUG, do something very soon.
Panoramio contest entries March 2009
1. Unusual location: 
Icebergs in early morning light. Antarctic Sound, Antarctica.
2. Unusual location:
King Penguin rookery in mountainous landscape at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island.
3. Travel:
Red sunset at Quiver tree (Aloe dichotoma) forest near Keetmanshoop in Namibia, Africa.
4. Scenery:
Spring. Wood anemones (Anemone nemorosa) are covering the forest floor and the first Beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) have come into leaf in Noerreskov, Denmark.
5. Travel:
Night in Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. At midsummer the days are long and it doen't really gets dark at night.
Icebergs in early morning light. Antarctic Sound, Antarctica.2. Unusual location:
King Penguin rookery in mountainous landscape at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island.3. Travel:
Red sunset at Quiver tree (Aloe dichotoma) forest near Keetmanshoop in Namibia, Africa.4. Scenery:
Spring. Wood anemones (Anemone nemorosa) are covering the forest floor and the first Beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) have come into leaf in Noerreskov, Denmark.5. Travel:
Night in Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. At midsummer the days are long and it doen't really gets dark at night.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Nepal photo from Panoramio used by Nepal Travel
My Photo from Nango Kola valley in Nepal is used by Nepal Travel
Snowcovered Nango Kola valley in eastern Nepal.
It can be seen as one of the photos on the Google Map on Nepals Travels page about Khamachin, Nepal
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Johnny Rook in the Falklands on Steeple Jason Island
Johnny Rook owns this island
Johnny Rook (Striated Caracara) and his beautiful island Steeple Jason, Falkland Islands.
Steeple Jason is a fantastic place. It is a beautiful island and the place is crowed with life. Albatrosses, penguin and then there is Johnny Rook.
I entered this photo in the december 2008 panoramio, but I did not promote it at all, so the photo only got a few votes.
I entered this photo in the december 2008 panoramio, but I did not promote it at all, so the photo only got a few votes.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
First prize in Panoramio Photo centest
First prize in Panoramio's January 2009 - Geotagged Photo Contest - Unusual Location
The south entrance to the narrow and scenic Lemaire Channel between the Antarctic Peninsula and Booth Island, Antarctica. I call it my Blue Antarctica Landscape.
Thanks a lot to everyone who voted on this photo.
Only Panoramio knows how many people actually voted on this photo, but it was viewed about 6500 times and 844 Panoramio users left a message to this photo during the contest month. Many thanks to all your kind words.
Only Panoramio knows how many people actually voted on this photo, but it was viewed about 6500 times and 844 Panoramio users left a message to this photo during the contest month. Many thanks to all your kind words.
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