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by Ken Kovak on Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:21 am
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Today, I was playing around with the new search engine, Bing.com and while searching for "Ken Kovak" I came up with this result:

http://roycehowland.naturescapes.net/po ... pos=-23193

When you follow this link you end up with one of my images, not Royce's. As it turns out there are any number of URLs with other NS member names that lead to my portfolio images. Any ideas what is going on?

Thanks
Ken
Ken Kovak - Lehigh Valley, PA
[url=http://kenkovak.naturescapes.net]Ken's Naturescape Portfolio[/url]
[url=http://kenkphotography.smugmug.com]Ken's Website[/url]
 

by Royce Howland on Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:42 pm
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This is a side effect of the way the member-specific URL's work with the NSN portfolios. The full portfolio site is reachable from any of our individual URL's, and search engines may index images from you under my URL, images from me under your URL, and any other combination imaginable.

For example if you go to http://roycehowland.naturescapes.net/, you arrive at my portfolio. But you can click the "Photographer's Index" link at the top, which takes you to the confusing but currently working link http://roycehowland.naturescapes.net/po ... .php?cat=1 from which you could drill back down into any other photographer's portfolio, but still with "roycehowland.naturescapes.net" at the start of the URL. A search engine could follow exactly that path to index things in an odd-looking way.

Probably this could be tightened up in the way the portfolio links work in combination with the member-specific URL's, but it hasn't been a priority...
Royce Howland
 

by Ken Kovak on Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:03 pm
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Thanks Royce. I guess as long as my images get found is all that counts.

Ken
Ken Kovak - Lehigh Valley, PA
[url=http://kenkovak.naturescapes.net]Ken's Naturescape Portfolio[/url]
[url=http://kenkphotography.smugmug.com]Ken's Website[/url]
 

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