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Tar Vol on

www.tarvolon.com · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2020

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

Tar Vol on publishes writing about books & reading and fantasy & SF at www.tarvolon.com, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Publishing since 2020, by their own archive. Vouched for by 2 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

619 pages in their archive6 years at it13 dated posts since 20242 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per year

1202412025112026

2026 is January to October.

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 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 619 the sitemap lists
Front page
55 KB, 14 scripts, 1 imageindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 10 entries, the recent end only
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
1 other writer in the index, 2 other sites, 2 platforms
Found
2026-08-26, by following another writer's link

The lag

2020writing since2026the almanac

Writing since 2020. 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

hugo140ballot28review1568fantasy961leslye2zahara3clarkesworld33giganotosaurus6august1369preaching8novella297undoing13douglass15amal16

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

-TH-David D. LevineBlaisdell Literary4 sites outside the indexTar Vol on
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Blaisdell Literary Enterprises.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · publishing since 2020 · 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.
  • The page tells search engines it belongs to a person.
  • 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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