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Tuesday, 05 June 2012 - Confession
Well, I've been back from my East Coast trip for a few days, and it was pretty awesome.

But more importantly, I've started my internship on Monday and it has really reduced the amount free time I have. So basically, after subtracting the hours I work and subtracting the hours I have with my IRL friends (we're all parting ways after this summer, so I gotta make the best of this time!), there's pretty much no time for me to work on the site, except maybe on weekends again like it was during school. :(

Now, the title of this update refers to a little experiment I've been doing with Google image search. Basically, part of the reason why I've been posting full-blown images of the Pokemon art on the updates (aside from them looking way more awesome) rather than the thumbnail is that I've found that's the only way for the images to get indexed by Google. I used to not care, but now that I'm actually getting a lot of search engine traffic, I want all my old art before I started posting them on the news updates to get indexed. So here's the Eevee family:

Eevee Pokemon Art Flareon Pokemon Art Vaporeon Pokemon Art Jolteon Pokemon Art Espeon Pokemon Art Umbreon Pokemon Art Leafeon Pokemon Art Glaceon Pokemon Art

I guess I'll go through the old art a few at a time. Am I abusing this space? Yeah, probably and I really apologize for that! To help decrease the load speed on the front page I added pagination for the news articles. Sorry about this thing being so inconvenient but Google just really doesn't seem to index the images straight from the Joomgallery interface, so I have to do this. :/

Anyway, I promise that I'll get back to work on the site soon. And in ways other than art updates all the time. :)

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#1 Tiff 2012-06-12 15:23
Hey, I certainly don't mind seeing your art again on the home page! Best of luck getting more search engine traffic. :D

(Also I just want to say that Umbreon is probably one of my favorites of your art. I adore the fluidity of the pose.)
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#2 Victoria 2012-06-18 16:48
Hi, um you don't know me, but I do remember visiting your old site, Lugia's Island. I am glad that you are one of the few sites from back then that have returned. :3 I prefer seeing your drawn images on the front page. They catch my eye.

I do have a question though. How do you make it so that Google indexes your images? I've been trying to figure this out since I opened my site and haven't gotten anywhere with it. ?,?
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#3 Silverwing 2012-06-20 14:51
Well normally it's automatic. Google seems to index my static pages really quickly. It's just the automatically generated pages like the image gallery that Google doesn't seem to be able to index, or does so very slowly.

I'm not really an expert on search engine optimization... the best advice I can give you is Google "site:your site URL" and see which pages/images are indexed and figure out a pattern as to which ones get indexed and which ones don't. Then just go from there.
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#4 Victoria 2012-06-20 21:11
Thanks for the help. :3 I had a feeling that it was automatic. I just wanted to be sure if there was an easier method to use. I Googled my site and it did help me see which images are being indexed.

Once again, thanks. ^^;
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