Self-publishing a journal book
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Hello- I am planning on putting a journal book that my father wrote of his experiences in Greenland at the close of WWII online using WordPress. I think I am about ready to ‘publish’ the content, but I would like to ensure that the photographs will be protected from download. Is there an easy way to do this? I would also like to ensure that search engines can find this content. Again, is there an easy way to do this?
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Hello there,
Please read this support doc http://en.support.wordpress.com/prevent-content-theft/
What’s best for your wordpress.com hosted blog is watermarking your images, or not placing any images and/or text that you don’t want stolen on the internet at all. If you use the Duotone theme right click is disabled via CSS but that’s not available on any other themes. This is because anyone can find instructions on the internet and get around it in less than 20 seconds flat.
For clarity you can read what Staff said here about Duotone https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-disable-right-click-on-photos?replies=5#post-1659713 but in the end the effect still means the answer is the same one I posted above.
You may also want to read Perspectives on Watermarks (and Various Methods to Protect Your Images). A roundup of opinions and processes on adding watermarks to images online, from nine WordPress photographers.
Perspectives on Watermarks (and Various Methods to Protect Your Images)
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re: search engine discoverability
You need to start publishing posts not pages https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ frequently ie. at least twice weekly for search engine attention.
A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.
What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one-way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds, and as others do not backlink to pages, it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.
It can take weeks for search engines to index your site content. Please read this support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/ so you know we have no control over search engines positioning or appearance in the SERPs (search engine page results).
To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com hosted blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this, please.
WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines
To gain search engine attention, I recommend that you start publishing posts (not pages) https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ frequently. That’s because it can take weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL.
For more information on expediting search engine indexing of your site read > http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google
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Hello-
Thank-you for your response to my questions. I’m a complete newbie and I appreciate this information. When setting this up I entered everything under one “page”, so this may have been a mistake if I read your second reply correctly. I filled in the “Excerpt” with as many key words that I could think of in the hope that this might help with discoverability. I will look into the links you provided for both of these topics.
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