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Patricia J. Franz

patriciajfranz.com · a site they built themselves

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

Patricia J. Franz publishes poems about books & reading, grief & illness and place & nature at patriciajfranz.com, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 8 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

8 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 6

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 6, 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
6 captured
Front page
270 KB, 28 scripts, 3 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
none
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 12 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-08-27, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

reverie23twilight93thanksgiving49poetry1724constant131friday435remain405itself464land541poetryfriday2mortared2blog1854flinchum4petrichor6

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 vouches7 writers in the index

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

Their neighbourhood

jilldaileyReflections on theSALT CITY VERSEDare to CareA(nother) Year of Chicken SpaghettiImagine the Possib12 sites outside the indexPatricia J. Franz
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Kept on the same blogrolls: The Apples in My Orchard (7 of the same writers link to both), Imagine the Possibilities (5 of the same writers link to both), A(nother) Year of Reading (5 of the same writers link to both), TeacherDance (5 of the same writers link to both).

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 a full set of search-engine tags. This site is trying to be found, and the almanac scores that against it.

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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