I had the same problem as you, Stephen.  I just made the change and hopefully that takes care of the issue.  Thanks for your really helpful posts on this subject. Did the "Include in Zenfolio site-wide search results" always include the "(also can be found by public search engines)" parathetical on the Access Control ...

firedog -- thanks so much!! It sounds like you are the reason for getting an answer to this question.  I just wish the ZF staff would have been as helpful!!

I wish the ZF staff would have advised us on that setting earlier.  They never mentioned it when responding to my emails on the subject or in this thread.  That could have avoided a lot of headaches!!

Geography is the primary method I am using for organizing photos on my ZF site, and thus in some places, there are multiple levels of "groups" before you drill down to a "gallery" (e.g., Rocky Mountains & The Southwest > Arizona > Antelope Canyon -- in this example, the first two are groups and the last one is a ...

Thank you both for your replies. Kevin - I submitted my URL to the search engines, so hopefully some of my pages begin to get indexed in the next few weeks.  Also, thanks generally for all your feedback in these forums.  ZF should have you on its payroll (if they don't already) or at least comp you a Pro account. Bill

I know there have been a lot of threads on this topic generally (including an active one from earlier today), but I haven't seen one directly on point so here comes another one:  Apparently, many ZF users have been able to get their sites indexed by the major search engines, but many other users have not.  I have not had success to ...

Another vote here.  The sooner, the better.  Thanks.