Thirteen Ways To Add SEO To Gallery2

How do you edit CLASS files? Dreamweaver won't open that file.

Hi all, thank you very much for this post!!! I have one question - I'm using carbon theme and I can't get rid off "highlightId" links in breadcrumbs. Could you please tell me, what to change to avoid it? I have changed GalleryTheme.class but it didn't help.

I've noticed that removing highlightId from breadcrumbs may be useful for crawlers and bots, but it's completely useles for human browsing (users don't return to the page they were visiting before entering albums, etc.)

So I've returned it back to the original state.
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On step 2 i can't see following options on the Admin page, in Dynamic album either on Keyword album.
I have enables URL Rewrite and Permalinks module.
I had the same issue on 2.2.4, and now I upgraded to 2.3RC1, and the same...
I have classic theme by default.

Ok not wanting to be annoying but
http://images.google.ie/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&q=wedding+party+rachel+stephen+richard+mary+james.

Is a search in google images on some of the keywords TS sais he is using:

The prize question is? Which are ther results

Even idf I take out the common word weddingparty :
http://images.google.ie/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&q=rachel+stephen+richard+mary+james.

Nothing

So how do you get your photo's listed.
Are we forced to mirror on flickr or use coppermine?

I'm guessing its your Javascript sidebar. That's the only Javascript on your screen. This is in your actual HTML: <div class="gbBlock giWarning">
JavaScript must be enabled for this page to function properly. However, it seems JavaScript is either disabled or not supported by your browser. Please enable JavaScript by changing your browser options, then try again.

Habe genau das gleiche Problem! Bin am verzweifeln laut Hoster ist deutsch als Sprache installiert.
Sean Baden

Hi ...sorry I got referred to this topic by an admin
What works as well like a treat but you have to do it everys so often...is the A1 sitemap creator and have that generate a sitemap for you

Now I have recentally moved the whole wherabouts of my site plus linkedin facebook and my companys websitye have a kickarse listing in google but I do show up on the first page in google
Without a lot, if you dont mind me saying, hassle/work

I am actually looking to have the searches show in google images ....gallery2 being photo's and all

Thanks
and keep up the work i am going to restart my thread stating my intentions a bit clearer too

Regards
Bas

Hi mridgwel, thanks a lot for this hint. It works fine in almost all situations except one. When you are looking on a "keyword album" - virtual album of all photos with the same keyword, then it contains this:

<link rel="canonical" href="/?g2_itemId="/>

Does anybody know how to fix it (change it to i.e. <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.pavelpola.cz/key/krajina"/>)?

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Please visit my personal gallery: http://www.pavelpola.cz (mostly B&W pictures, Prague, nature, people)

Hi Mark, you did a really good job!

I have made just a few improvements:
- added support for paging in dynamic albums
- added selection if the link is on the first page - then no page number is appended, so URL looks more "SEO friendly" - without any parameter
- added link to search module

Here is my version:

{* Album links *}
{if $theme.pageType == 'album'}
	{if $theme.item.id == null }
		{* Dynamic album *}       
		{if $theme.currentPage > 1}
			<link rel="canonical" href="{g->url params=$theme.pageUrl arg1="page=`$theme.currentPage`" forceFullUrl=true}" />
		{else}
			<link rel="canonical" href="{g->url params=$theme.pageUrl forceFullUrl=true}" />
		{/if}
	{else}
		{* Normal Album *}
		{if $theme.currentPage > 1}
			<link rel="canonical" href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$theme.item.id`" arg3="page=`$theme.currentPage`" forceFullUrl=true}" />
		{else}
			<link rel="canonical" href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$theme.item.id`" forceFullUrl=true}" />
		{/if}
	{/if}

{* Photo links *}
{elseif $theme.pageType == 'photo'}
	<link rel="canonical" href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$theme.item.id`" forceFullUrl=true}" />

{* Module links *}
{elseif $theme.pageType == 'module'}
	{if $theme.moduleTemplate == 'modules/comment/templates/AddComment.tpl' }
		<link rel="canonical" href="{g->url arg1="view=comment.AddComment" arg2="itemId=`$theme.item.id`" forceFullUrl=true}" />
	{elseif $theme.moduleTemplate == 'modules/comment/templates/ShowAllComments.tpl'}
		<link rel="canonical" href="{g->url arg1="view=comment.ShowAllComments" arg2="itemId=`$theme.item.id`" forceFullUrl=true}" />
	{elseif $theme.moduleTemplate == 'modules/search/templates/SearchScan.tpl'}
		<link rel="canonical" href="{g->url arg1="view=search.SearchScan" arg2="form[useDefaultSettings]=1" forceFullUrl=true}" />
	{else}
		<link rel="canonical" href="{g->url params=$theme.pageUrl forceFullUrl=true}" />
	{/if}

{* All other links *}
{else}
   <link rel="canonical" href="{g->url params=$theme.pageUrl forceFullUrl=true}" />
{/if} 

I'm also using "linkspage", which is behaving like admin page - but I didn't find out, how to get the link so I hardcoded this:

{* System links *}
{elseif $theme.pageType == 'admin' && $UserAdmin.subViewName == 'linkspage.Links'}
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.pavelpola.cz/links" />

If anybody knows how to build admin link to the links page using {g->url} please let me know.

Pavel
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I know how to detect it, but I don't know how to build the correct link to that page using {g->url } function.
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Hi Mark, thank you, I forgot to look in .htaccess. Now it's working fine. Just last question - the link it generates looks like this:

http://www.pavelpola.cz/?g2_view=core.SiteAdmin&g2_subView=linkspage.Links

Don't you know, how to force url rewriting function on that link? I'd like to generate it like this: http://www.pavelpola.cz/links. I have the URL rewriting active and correctly defined in .htaccess file. But I need to force the URL generator to generate rewritten link instead of the "basic" one.

Thank you a lot.

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Please visit my personal gallery: http://www.pavelpola.cz (mostly B&W pictures, Prague, nature, people)

My fault, thank you, you're right!
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To try and improve my search engine rankings, I've written a module which aids tracking down items which aren't up to standard.

http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:mranalysis

It's certainly made my life easier tracking down old items without keywords, or bad titles etc. If you have feedback on that it has its own forum for bug reports etc: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/85596

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Mark