Panoramio photos not yet indexed after a month

A few of my photos published on panoramio: Unusual landscape photos by Allan Hansen have not yet been indexed after a month.

1. Clouds hanging low over the mountains in Bay of Isles, South Georgia Island.
I have changed the title from "Low hanging clouds around the peaks in Bay of Isles, South Georgia Island"

2. Southern Beech (Nothofagus) trees in the mountains above Valle de Andorra near Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
I spelled Argentina with an "m"- changed it.

King penguin photo promotion status

King penguins are my one of favorites. All photos in my little South Georgia Island and King penguin are King penguins.

The gallery is a HTML-only gallery with one hidden photo. 6 images are are shown in a HTML table with h1, h2,h3,h4 header and some other stuff, and links to a big size photo.

There were published on April 18 and promoted here on April 19. Phage have already been found on Google Text Search (6 times) and I hope that the photos - when indexed - will be found too.

Update 2009-08-04:
Made a new gallery without any photos (Google also indexes hidden photos and this means duplicate page titles and duplicate meata data etc) and changed the link to the new gallery.

Update 2010-10-17: Link to King penguin gallery changed from Smugmug to Photographer Allan Hansen

King penguin gallery promotion in Smugmug

King penguins are my favorites.
All photos in my little South Georgia Island and King penguin are King penguins.
Links will also be published on Dgrin.
The gallery is a HTML-only gallery with one hidden photo. 6 images are are shown in a HTML table with h1, h2,h3,h4 header and some other stuff, and links to a big size photo. A link to the "popular" or the King penguins in South Georgia island are also shown just below the photos.

Update 2009-08-04:
Made a new gallery and changed the link to reflect this.
The links to my "popular" gallery are replaced with a link to King penguins in South Georgia island because if Google indexes page in the "popular" gallery multiplies the SEO problem with duplicate page titles, duplicate meta data etc.

Update 2010-10-12:
All links are replaced with links to my danish site King Penguins, as I'm closing down my Smugmug account.

Google Image Search comparison for Smugmug, Pbase and Panoramio

I published this comparison on smugmug's DGrin forum on march 17, 2009 and still no reaction of any kind from Smugmug.

Inspired by this thread and a video from Google's Peter Linsley about "Get up-to-date on Image Search":
Video (15 min): http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...ge-search.html

I asked myself:
How good is SM doing on Google Image Search (GIS)? And how good is the visitor experience with people coming from GIS?

I tried many different keywords (with between 500 and 999 hits in SM excellent search engine) and the word "caracara" turned up to be give about average result for SM. Thumbnails from SM are very unreliable in Google Image search. Most of them do not lead you to a caracara in SM (Google Earth files, Thumbnail from today’s popular etc). Thumbnails will not likely turn up in a any Google Image Search and that is good, especially for a visitor and also for SM, so I counted only images before the first Thumbnail.

I Have chosen to compare with Pbase because they also have an inside search engine which I could use, and Panoramio because it is owned by Google, so this gives an estimate of the practical percentage of images you can expect to see in GIS. (Just like Flickr images in Yahoo image search),

Images in SM: 783 and 100% accurate.
Images in GIS: 15 and 66% accurate. Typical res 400x268. 5 linking to a www-URL, 5 linking to a Nickname-URL and 5 photos not linking to a caracara in SM.
Note: SM removes the frame when clicking an image from GIS, which makes it impossible to hit the "Back" for continuing the image search. This is really annoying.
Verdict for SM: 1.91% of images in GIS with poor resolution - and a bad user experience.

to comparison: result for Pbase:
Images in Pbase: 1408 - 100% accurate
Images in GIS: 223 - 100% accurate. Typical res 800x500
Verdict for Pbase: 15.83% of images in GIS with medium resolution - and a very good user experience.

to comparison with my images in panoramio which are not in my SM galleries:
Images in panoramio : 44
Images in GIS: 23 - 100% accurate. typical res 1100x800
Verdict for Panoramio(alone): 52.27% of images in GIS with original resolution - and a very good user experience.
(Theese photos do not exists anywhere else on the internet)

to comparison with my images in panoramio which are also in my SM galleries:
Images in panoramio : 36
Images in GIS: 7 - 100% accurate. typical res 1100x800
Verdict for Panoramio(+SM): 19.44% of images in GIS -with original resolution and a very good user experience.
(I cannot give an explanation to this - GIS might find similar images in SM and regard them as dublicates or ????)
(I have moved half of these images to a gallery not seen by SM or Google to see if this will make a difference. The weeks to come will tell)

New Albatross and penguin photos published in Panoramio

1. Pair of Wandering albatrosses in mating ritual at Albatross Island, South Georgia Islands. The Wandering Albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird, with the average wingspan being 3.1 meters (10.2 ft).

2. Moulting King penguins at Fortuna Bay, South Georgia Island. They prefer standing with their feet in the cold water.

Antarctica photos in Panoramio - My favorites.

1. Blue iceberg with Adelie penguins near Paulet Island, Antarctica.

2. Sunrise in Antarctica. The scenic Lemaire Channel between Booth Island and the Antarctic Peninsula is glowing with golden orange colors in the early morning light. This narrow strait is considered one of the highlights in any cruise going to Antarctica.