Blog Stats and questions

I google "ukraine adoption" and I don't come up either. But I use [url=http://blogsearch.google.com/]Google Blog Search[/url] and "ukraine adoption" and all my blogs come up. My numbers jumped up when I posted blogs to a Ukrainian email list and chat board. They were actually responses that I had written to an email.I would like to understand the photo linkage too.About google's image search. I just looked for "Green Forest Orphanage"... Some photos are labeled with this and my blog came up.

Great questions all, and I'm passing them along to the tech folks. The one question I do know the answer to is the last one about commenting with your link. When users sign up, they have the option of adding a link to their blog, site, etc. If they do not enter it, it doesn't show up. For users who joined BEFORE that was available, when they log in, they have the option of adding it. If they never sign out (which a lot of people do), they never see that. So if you know someone who wants to add it, ask them to log out, then log in again.Is that clear? grin...

More answers...When I search on google forfoster adoption blogI see you down at the bottom, second from last on that first page. We have been having ongoing problems with technorati and our techs continue to work on it...

Another answer - about photosOur Google expert tech says that it's easier for Google to find and identify photos if both the name and the alt tag identify it by name... so < img src="child_with_ball.jpg" alt="child with ball"So - use whatever program you use to fix your photos to name it, and use that name in the alt tag. If you can't rename the photo, use the alt tag anyway with a clear description... not too long.Caution: Do NOT do this with photos that you are using from other sources - only with your own photos. For photos from another source, the alt tag should identify the owner, i.e., alt="Wikipedia free photos" or whatever.

Thank you guys! Figured out the photo stuff. I DO see my blog now.. Ok back to writing :) Only 80 something posts to go for the month....:)

Speaking of Google, it looks there will be some changes soon:[url=http://www.wan-press.org/article11943.html]WAN - Global Publishers Head Off Legal Clash With Search Engines[/url]In the week that Belgian publishers won their case against Google for illegally publishing content without prior consent, a coalition of print media associations are preparing to launch a global pilot project to avoid future clashes between search engines and newspaper, periodical, magazine and book publishers. The new project, called ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol), is an automated system which allows online content providers to systematically provide information about access and use of their content to news aggregators and others on the web. The information, provided in a form that can be recognised and interpreted by search engine “crawlers”, will tell search engine operators and other users under what terms they can use the content.ACAP will be a technical solutions framework that will allow publishers worldwide to express use policies in a language that the search engine’s robot “spiders” can be taught to understand.“This system is intended to remove completely any rights conflicts between publishers and search engines. Via ACAP, we look forward to fostering mutually beneficial relationships between publishers of original content and the search engine operators, in which the interests of both parties can be properly balanced," said Gavin O’Reilly, President of the World Association of Newspapers, one of the partners in the project."Importantly, ACAP is an enabling solution that will ensure that published content will be accessible to all and will encourage publication of increasing amounts of high-value content online," he said. "This industry-wide initiative positively answers the growing frustration of publishers, who continue to invest heavily in generating content for online dissemination and use.”Other partners in the project are the European Publishers Council (E.P.C.) the International Publishers Association (I.P.A.) and the European Newspapers Association (E.N.P.A).Francisco Pinto Balsemo, Chairman of the E.P.C., said: “ACAP will unambiguously express our preferred rights and terms and conditions. In doing so, it will facilitate greater access to our published content, making it more, not less available, to anyone wishing to use it, whilst avoiding copyright infringement and protecting search engines from future litigation.”