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Dave Bonta

davebonta.com · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2012

Read them at davebonta.com → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Dave Bonta publishes journals and poems at davebonta.com, a site they built themselves. Publishing since 2012, by their own archive. Vouched for by 4 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

342 pages in their archive14 years at it4 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 14

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 14, from their own archive. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured, of 342 the sitemap lists1 section found
Front page
41 KB, 14 scripts, 13 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 10 entries, the recent end only
Trackers
none
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 5 other sites, 1 platforms
Found
2026-08-25, by following another writer's link

The lag

2012writing since2026the almanac

Writing since 2012. The big engines have never ranked it. The almanac found it in August 2026, by following another writer's link.

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

pepy5banjo11erasure37haibun38plummer4digest53porch60haiku179breakdown65poem1593failed134blogging227diary265multimedia68

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

Via NegativaMorning Porch6 sites outside the indexDave Bonta
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · essays, stories, or poems · publishing since 2012 · 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.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.

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.

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