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on http://symbiostock-search.com garden snail finds your images as either the phrase or as separate words
on my site I don’t normally use double word keywords unless the individual words wouldn’t apply – so ‘common loon’, or ‘national park’ or ‘Bryce Canyon’ (since not all pix would necessarily show a canyon)
no – upload either thru the theme uploader (‘upload images’ )or thru the ftp address it gives you
one other suggestion – you have no imaes uploaded right now so load one which will trigger some of the other parts of the theme
but your xml ISNT blank- it’s some other html code, but with no html/body — it starts by listing your categories
that’s what I saw when I first looked at it, and it’s still that way now
also yoast produces a series of different xmls — are you sure you haven’t turned some of them OFF? eg, under exclude taxonomies
@jan wrote:
Thanks Christine,
I have the same as you.
I have just closed down Yoast XML. Utterly fed-up with it. It just started to submit 1 image to Google, with 0 indexed. And then, puff, sitemap_index.xml page is blank again. Have a feeling that months of indexing is lost.
Thankfully symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml still works.
I have Google XML Sitemaps working now since yesterday but it’s still Pending. Hope this does a good job!
first, you don’t lose months of indexing — once indexed, google keeps checking those pages
but there’s something wrong with how you’ve set up yoast
http://www.jbstockimages.com/sitemap_index.xml should produce an xml file — instead it gives a truncated html page — that would be why it’s ‘blank’ when submitted to google which expects an xml
another thing to check is that permalinks are set to ‘post’
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haven’t used google xml — just make sure it indexes both pages & images
your sitemap is still showing up as blank — did you check the box to enable sitemaps? did you make any changes on the other yoast pages? (most can be left at the defaults)
Yoast WordPress SEO: XML Sitemaps
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XML Sitemap
Check this box to enable XML sitemap functionality.You can find your XML Sitemap here: XML Sitemap
===========================================@njene wrote:
Hey ,
jeneimages.com is officially up and running. It is still a work in progress, as many more images have yet to be added to the library. My specialty would be landscape photography, and a little bit of everything else mixed in.
This is by far has been the most challenging and exciting thing to have done with my photography.
If anyone has any suggestions/tweaks/or notice any problems I would like to get your viewpoint.Thanks to those that have helped me along wiith SS.
Nick Jene
Welcome!
I’ve added you to the global search at http://symbiostock-search.comTo help you find network partners, you can find other sites by specialty, focus or promoted keywords at
http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=72I like it — I’ve never been a fan of the blue-aqua-greens that seem to dominate indoor photoshoots
there are some strange ways that wp/sym reads iptc
there are both xmp & iptc fields for caption and headline, and various microstock agencies have the same confusion in reading from different fields. I make sure both headline & caption are filled in iptc, then copy that info to the equivalent xmp (I use exiftool gui)
it’s a known bug that also shows up in generating multiple descriptions when images are processed
Welcome!
I’ve added you to the global search at http://symbiostock-search.comTo help you find network partners, you can find other sites by specialty, focus or promoted keywords at
http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=72another factor to remember is that most people will find you thru your images, not your domain, unless you plan to do a lot of print & tv advertising. domain names themselves are less important than they were 10 years ago – consider pond5, dreamstime. eg
@jsfoto wrote:
I would prefer to keep the double S (as I don’t think that the interwoven S in blue and green are really problematic) … it is just the combination with red, black and white which constitutes unpleasant associations for me.
I agree – that was my first reaction to it also, but I figured it was just on my mind as I’ve been reading about camus’ work in the resistance
it’s unfortunate that the Nazis had such a powerful design sense, but those color combinations continue to connote evil (on a less disturbing level, they’re common colors for scifi and movie villains)
it IS a bit awkward the first time, but it gets easier.
re menu – I use a text widget to point to all collections, then also out each collection in it’s proper category
I use leo”s and yoast and they’re excellent — they complement each other and make submitting to google simple & automatic
@matt wrote:
I don’t really know what the procedure for open source is but wouldn’t a road map of the code be useful for coders.
Like where the CSS + PHP files are is for the image page, search results etc.
Then coders (tinkerers) can refine small pieces of the code and show them to the community for inclusion in version updates.
exactly — right now, each coder needs to dig thru on their own to figure out where to do what
