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Bear Alley

bearalley.blogspot.co.uk · a site they built themselves

Read them at bearalley.blogspot.co.uk → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Bear Alley publishes art, comics and short stories about books & reading at bearalley.blogspot.co.uk, a site they built themselves. Last published September 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 2 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

9 dated posts since 20122 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksOctober 2012 to July 2025

JFMAMJJASOND20122012-10: 12012-12: 120132013-01: 12013-03: 12013-04: 12013-09: 120142014-11: 120152015-01: 120252025-07: 1
fewermorepeak: 1 in July 2025

Counted from links on their own pages whose paths carry a year and a month. That reaches only the pages the crawl has seen, so early years may be undercounted.

Posts per year

2201242013120141201512025

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 20

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 20, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured
Front page
258 KB, 6 scripts, 121 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
none
Links out
3 other writers in the index, 51 other sites, 18 platforms
Found
2026-09-11, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

dredd2colchester5payment110bellamy5trigan1commando6comic546invasion59releas231option356library831titan56picture581judge166

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches2 writers in the index

2 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

The Bookhunter on Lew Stringer ComicBear Alley BooksLew Stringer ComicChristopher Fowler69 sites outside the indexBear Alley
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Bear Alley Books, Lew Stringer Comics, Christopher Fowler.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by the literary end

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • Carries ad networks.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

Every figure on this page was measured from the site itself and says where it came from. Nothing is quoted from the writing and nothing is written by a model. Something wrong? One email corrects it: hello@longhandalmanac.com. Want out of the index? Same address, or two lines in your robots.txt (how), and this page is gone the next morning.