Arnakke Photo galleries on Smugmug

Smugmug has changed the URL structure and introduced plain-english URL's (They call it NiceNames). Here is the new plain-english links to most galleries on Photo Arnakke.
The links are changed in my horizontal navigation bar which is based on the idea found on Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework. I can highly recommend this solution for a horizontal drop-down menu in Smugmug.

King penguins at South Georgia Island gallery on Smugmug

I did have some success in getting a HTML page and images indexed by Google with my gallery Adelie, Gentoo and Macaroni penguins in Antarctica.

I have tried the same with another gallery South Georgia Island and King Penguins but so far without any success. The last cache of the page is more than a month old.
Some of my most popular King penguin photos are shown on this page, so I am a bit disappointed right now. I have deleted the photo in the gallery and now it is all HTML. As this page is on my Smugmug site it means that I cannot any longer add comments. It is not shown in feeds anymore. I have also made the gallery invisible to Smugmug searches.
Hopefully this will help. The weeks to come will tell.

Update 2009-08-04:
Google has indexed this page on a number of different URL's (some of them not even belong to me, but to other Smugmug users), so I have deleted the gallery and started all over again. This time I have disabled the "Hello smuggers" before Google had the chance to index this gallery under other user accounts.
I hope that Smugmug will solve these serious SEO bugs soon - especially the duplicate page titles, the duplicate URL's and the duplicate Meta description issues.

Update 2010-10-12:
Smugmug have not solved these serious Search engine issues, and I do not think that they ever will.

Save the albatrosses + New About Me Smugmug page

Changed my About LichtenHansen - Allan Hansen in Smugmug.
Much better than the previous version- more photos and better text.

I also added a link to Save the Albatross. These magnificent birds need all the help they can get.

New navigation bar in Smugmug

I have changed the navigation bar on my SmugMug site. I wanted it to be horizontal and I was not happy about the solution found on Smugmug or Dgrin. I enden up using the idea found on Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework. I can highly recommend this solution for a horizontal drop-down menu in Smugmug.

The final horizontal navigation bar can be seen on my web site: Horizontal navigation bar in Smugmug.
Especially take a look at the Galleries nav link - multible level navigation bar - not bad at all.

King penguin search page changed

I have changed the layout on South Georgia Island and King penguin as 4 of the thumbnails are indexed with the word "larger size".
The link is moved down a bit, so that the title is just below the photos.
I have to wait another 2-3 weeks to see if this helps.

update 2009-08-04:
Changed link.

Update 2009-08-25:
Changed link again to reflect URL structure changes in Smugmug.

Update 2010-10-12:
Changed links to my own web site, as I am closing down my Smugmug site.

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.

Promoting a photo for GIS

Gentoo penguins are my favorites.
All photos in my little penguin photo gallery are penguin photos.
Links are also published on Dgrin.

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.