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Barbara Ellen Sorensen

www.barbaraellensorensen.com · a site they built themselves

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

Barbara Ellen Sorensen publishes poems about books & reading at www.barbaraellensorensen.com, a site they built themselves. Last published May 2014. Vouched for by 10 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

10 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 13

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 13, 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
13 captured
Front page
42 KB, 11 scripts, 5 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
7 other writers in the index, 29 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-09-28, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

versedaily2flute23composition85lining28meetup36submitted102playing377dead685enjoyed352read2321happening263appearance265title834blog1854

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 vouches8 writers in the index

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

Their neighbourhood

Stephen GibsonHollis SeamonBarbara Lydecker CJan D. HodgeElizabyth A. HiscoLee Harlin BahanJohn BeatonRob WrightBarbara Lydecker CElizabyth A. HiscoJan D. HodgeJohn Beaton29 sites outside the indexBarbara Ellen Sorensen
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Barbara Lydecker Crane, Elizabyth A. Hiscox, Jan D. Hodge, John Beaton, Lee Harlin Bahan, Rob Wright and 1 more. Kept on the same blogrolls: Elizabyth A. Hiscox (7 of the same writers link to both), Stephen Gibson (7 of the same writers link to both), Lee Harlin Bahan (7 of the same writers link to both), John Beaton (7 of the same writers link to both).

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · essays, stories, or poems · no optimization at all · 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.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • No description written for search engines and no schema. Nothing on the page was built to be found.

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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