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Google search and the little blog

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Many small websites are going dark like the sands of the desert at nightfall -  License our images here .   Little blogs are dying. They are jailed in a dark and remote dungeon of Google organic search, the non-index dungeon. The mighty gatekeeper, like Saturn , is devouring its children. Betrayed for money, the good old-fashioned blogs are the collateral damage of their "helpful" content update. Long gone is that 2004 when Loren Baker wrote: Google likes Blogs. Blogs do well in Search Results Listings on Google. This is because Blogs contain fresh content and are richly interlinked, despite their relatively small audiences. Some would go so far as to say that Google over-represents Blogs. (Source:  What if Google didn't like blogs? ") That's ancient history. A jump to 2022 shows a different picture. According to Sandy Maguire: The Internet is dominated by a few big websites. Out of social, the amateur opinion is vanished. (Source: " Why Is the Web So Monoto

Close to a Great Egret

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It came around in a circle. Slowly, the big white egret went for a prey hidden from our defective human eyes in the tall grass. I remained still, just moving the index finger to take the photos. The bird didn't fear me. It got so close that I could almost touch it. In a millisecond, a shook of its neck gave me this amazing picture.  Perfect timing - License our images  here .   Then the egret got its prey, an unfortunate small brown lizard. This happened in Everglades National Park.