Gallery2 and SEO - Tips and suggestions

i guess a simple way to get rid of main.php / index.php is:

- set your webserver's directory index to main.php (Apache DirectoryIndex main.php index.php index.html index.htm)
- set baseUri in config.php to 'http://example.com/gallery2/'

didn't test this, but i guess it should work.
i guess index.php / main.php should occur anywhere after this change.

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if you just want to get rid of main.php in all urls and have index.php instead:
- you can use define('GALLERY_MAIN_PHP', 'index.php'); in your config.php,
- delete index.php
- rename main.php to index.php

and yes, you need to delete index.php and rename main.php to index.php after each g2 upgrade. but that's about it.

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"i guess a simple way to get rid of main.php / index.php is:

- set your webserver's directory index to main.php (Apache DirectoryIndex main.php index.php index.html index.htm)
- set baseUri in config.php to 'http://example.com/gallery2/'

didn't test this, but i guess it should work.
i guess index.php / main.php should occur anywhere after this change."

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when you are talking about the webserver's directory index, are you also talking about the .htaccess file?

sambritt
He means the webserver's directory index as set in the server's configuration file. You will not have access to this file on normal shared hosted sites.
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Gallery Version: 2.2.1
Gallery Theme: PGTheme 1.1.0 (RC01)
Web Site: http://dakanji.com

Have you tried the suggetions above?

Ok, let me break it down a bit here so I can follow where exacty you are

You do not have the ability to add main.php to the DirectoryIndex directive in httpd.conf, right?

Assuming the above is true, have you tried adding $gallery->setConfig('baseUri', '/'); to config.php and renaming main.php to index.php?

hmmm, now when i click on the log on link, it goes to my home index page. In fact all my links now are just going to the home index page, one up from the sub directory of the gallery location.

it seems to like the code a little better of: $gallery->setConfig('baseUri', '');

but not @ 100% as the images are not showing @ all

thanks again for your support, SB

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, your the best netscan!!!

it works,

the example above will totally delete the main.php in the URL and not replace it with the index.php in the URL.

thank you for your patience here...

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may i ask another question about the URL coding here, or should i go somewhere else?

Check .htaccess, see if any of the rules are pointing to main.php

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteBase /

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} gallery\_remote2\.php
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
    RewriteRule .   -   [L]


      RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} view=core.DownloadItem
      RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} itemId=([0-9]+)
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://yoursite.com/ [NC]
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
      RewriteRule .   /main.php?g2_view=watermark.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=%1   [L]

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /updates/(\?.|\ .)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
    RewriteRule .   /main.php?g2_view=updates.ShowUpdates   [QSA,L]

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /Key-Word/view/([0-9]+).html(\?.|\ .)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
    RewriteRule .   /main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=%1   [QSA,L]

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /Key-Word/add/([0-9]+).html(\?.|\ .)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
    RewriteRule .   /main.php?g2_view=comment.AddComment&g2_itemId=%1   [QSA,L]

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /Key-Word/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/([^\/\?]+)(\?.|\ .)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
    RewriteRule .   /main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=%1&g2_serialNumber=%2&g2_fileName=%3   [QSA,L]

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /Key-Word/([^?]+)(\?.|\ .)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
    RewriteRule .   /main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_path=%1   [QSA,L]

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /([^?]+)(\?.|\ .)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
    RewriteRule .   /main.php?g2_view=rewrite.FileNotFound   [QSA,L]

</IfModule>

I have my server set to display main.php as an index page though.

What you can do is change your's to read index.php instead of main.php but I don't know how it will affect gallery since they made main.php hard coded in a lot of crap (they might have changed that too though since last I checked), you will at least be able to get in and configure the rewrite module correctly.

I'm pretty sure G2 has a rewrite rule built into the module for G1 installs, prolly take awhile to make sure it's exactly right.

And for the love of god man - work on a copy of your gallery until you get it straight before taking it live.

Thanks to netscan for this useful post.

I installed for the first time gallery on my site and trying to apply this :
"==HighlightId==

Open modules/core/templates/blocks/BreadCrumb.tpl

Remove arg3="highlightId=`$theme.parents[parent.index_next].id`"

and

Remove "arg3="highlightId=`$theme.item.id`"
"

However, in my BreadCrumb.tpl file I can not find these lines

Those lines of code were taken out of BreadCrumb.tpl on August 1st, 2006.

Read through this post, http://gallery.menalto.com/node/54753 This appears to be what you're looking for. Bharat also points out some of the functionality you loose by doing this.

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Again, just be aware that you loose some functionality and usability with this modification, so you have to decide is being slightly more SE friendly is worth making your gallery harder to navigate around in.

Also, for those reading this thread, please read the entire thread here http://gallery.menalto.com/node/54753 that explains what to edit. I'm with ichthyous here that Google is smart enough to not be effected by what appears to be "duplicate" content.

I've had some Ubuntu screenshots on my Gallery for a long time now, using Gallery just as it is out of the box with little to no modification:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Ubuntu+Inustalled+Under+VMware&hl=en&filter=0

I don't see where google thinks anything there is duplicate content.
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nivekiam,
after all I think, that Google is not smart enough to recognize this as one page..
It thinks all of these URLs are different pages, even in my case they all have refered to one (same) page. Please, correct me if I am wrong.

dichev.com/gallery/albums/kavala/?g2_highlightId=101 404 (Not found) [?] May 26, 2007
dichev.com/gallery/albums/kavala/?g2_highlightId=107 404 (Not found) [?] May 26, 2007
dichev.com/gallery/albums/kavala/?g2_highlightId=113 404 (Not found) [?] May 26, 2007
dichev.com/gallery/albums/kavala/?g2_highlightId=116 404 (Not found) [?] May 26, 2007
dichev.com/gallery/albums/kavala/?g2_highlightId=154 404 (Not found) [?] May 26, 2007
dichev.com/gallery/albums/kavala/?g2_highlightId=160 404 (Not found) [?] May 26, 2007
dichev.com/gallery/albums/kavala/?g2_highlightId=163 404 (Not found) [?] May 26, 2007
dichev.com/gallery/albums/kavala/?g2_highlightId=169 404 (Not found) [?] May 26, 2007
dichev.com/gallery/albums/kavala/?g2_highlightId=175 404 (Not found) [?] May 26, 2007
dichev.com/gallery/albums/kavala/?g2_highlightId=178 404 (Not found) [?] May 25, 2007
dichev.com/gallery/albums/kavala/?g2_highlightId=181 404 (Not found) [?] May 26, 2007

p.s. - I've removed the http-prefix, not to spam the forums with links.

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That is extreme and will not solve your issue. You need to block selected urls. Slideshow for instance can be a problem.
Have a look at

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.UserAdmin* >>This blocks login page
Disallow: /gallery/main.php?g2_view=comment* >> This blocks comments
Disallow: /gallery/*slideshow.html* >> Blocks Slideshow pages...slideshow is a major prob
Disallow: /gallery/c/* >> can even remember what this blocks
Disallow: /gallery/key/* >> Keyword albums
Disallow: /gallery/popular* >> Popular images albums
Disallow: /gallery/admin* >> all admin pages
Disallow: /gallery/srss/ >> rss
Disallow: /gallery/rss >> rss

Browse thorugh your site and pick pages you don't mean GBot to index and paste wildcard versions of the links to your robots file. I just wanted mine to focus on the images and nothing more.
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Gallery version = 2.2.2 core 1.2.0.4
PHP version = 4.3.9
Operating system = Linux (CentOS 4)
Default theme = PGtheme
Web Site: dakanji.com

DUPLICATE CONTENT (photo resize)
to avoid this just put these simple lines to the head section of your theme.tpl
{if $theme.imageViewsIndex==1}
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>
{/if}
The site with the dupl. cont. is not indexed by robots this way.
A more user friendly version is just put (to the head) the line {include file="gallery:mycustomfolder/head_include.php"} and write into the head_include.php anything you like make appear in the html head section.

ROBOTS
the dynam. robots.txt is nice solution but will never solve the basic problem that the worst of all the crawlers will just ignore the robots.txt and the disallow paths. The best way I know (against these bad guys) is also by php:
$find_BaiDu = 'BaiDu'; //BaiDuSpider ban
$pos = strpos($agent, $find_BaiDu);
if ($pos === false):;
else: echo 'Sorry!'; exit; endif;
This should be put to the top of the main site just before anything. Similar solutions you get with .htaccess also.

Yes, it is very good idea to use G2 as a part of a website, so do I, but Gallery2 is advanced enough to handle rich text content to every image or album page. It is a personal decision how to build your website architecture and depends to the individual code & content writing skills.
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What's the error message? Can you share a link to your page? Can you turn debug mode on and post the output?

If the output it more than 30 lines or so, copy it into a text file and attach that to your post.
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I have not tested this, but for the PublishXP feature, you might be able to change the registry entry to get that working. Gallery Remote might involve more work if the GR client it hard coded to look for main.php instead of just using the URL provided, whether it's index.php, main.php or a directory
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As to things you can do to add SEO to your Gallery2, you can try some of the things in the message, Thirteen Ways To Add SEO To Gallery2, at http://gallery.menalto.com/node/70008

Some of them have already been mentioned above, so some of the items in this thread are repeated, but I thought it would be good to centralize them into one list. If anyone has additions to suggest, I'd love to add more.

--Stephen
http://www.smjdesign.com
Personal Photo Gallery
http://www.smjdesign.com/photos/

Hi,

I'm trying to remove the G2_Highlight variable appearing on the end of all Breadcrumb links. I can't find an "arg3="highlightId=`$theme.item.id"

Can you help?

File:

/gallery/modules/core/templates/blocks/local/BreadCrumbs.tpl

Thanks
Shah
http://www.teamgtr.com/gallery/

I did read that but I didn't understand what the post meant by

LINE 15 - BEFORE

LINE 15 - AFTER

Does it meant to copy that code before and after LINE 15 - or replace?

doh! I feel like a complete dumbo.. thank you - I'll have a go

I have links to my gallery pointing to the folder, and rather than redirects, I chose to do this in the .htaccess

DirectoryIndex main.php index.php index.html
RewriteRule ^.*main\.php$ http://www.wide-aware.com/gallery/ [R=301,L]

Seems to be working fine.

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