SEO and Images Indexing

It seems that the albums links is somehow transformed to:

https://website.com/photo-albums/?occur=1&cover=0&album=New%20Album%201

still strange url and not sure why the link is different from the actual url. Bad for seo.

Say https://mywebsite.com/photo-albums/ shows the ‘generic’ album display ( i.e. the covers of all top-level albums with their parent set to —none— as opposed to —separate— ).
And you click on a link in a cover to show the thumbnails of the photos in that album instead of the first display but on the same page; and the url stays the same.
How would you communicate the link to the lates display, i.e. the thubnails.

The querystring tells wppa what to display on the found shortcode.

You can untick Table IV-A7.

https://website.com/photo-albums/wppaspec/oc1/cv0/abNew%20Album%201

tells wppa that on the first occurrence ( /oc1 ) of a wppa shortcode, it is the intention to display the content rather than the cover ( /cv0 ) of the album named New%20Album%201 ( /ab ).
This url will be redirected to

https://website.com/photo-albums/?occur=1&cover=0&album=New%20Album%201

that has the same meaning.

As soon as you change the shape/size of thumbnails and remake them, the thumbnail version number is bumped. Same for display size photos.

This makes sure that after a change, the visitors browser will see that the image that it may have in its cache has been changed, so he will download the new version. This is very important, and is strongly recommended to keep it this way.

Be thankfull to any caching program that does NOT cache pages with querystrings, otherwise you would always see the display of the shortcode as how it is given, you could not link to the thumbnails from the cover or to the slideshow etc.

Hello.

Thanks for the reply. Still no pretty urls by any means. Can’t your plugin produce pretty urls ?

I have spend all evening testing the urls and the (basic) seo. And it fails. In each album there is not even a proper meta title of the album (diaplays the shortcode’s page title like “<title>Photo Albums</title>”). Same for each photo, no proper title but <title>Photo Albums</title>.

I’m pretty sure that this excellent plugin is not seo friendly at all and this is ok IF the images could be at lease be indexed. And that i don’t know, but i will test soon.

I have 22 plugins to my site and all of them have rewrite urls to make then pretty and seo friendly. Yours is the first i see ignoring this.

Pls don’t take my post negatively, because it is not.

Thanks

Also in each lightbox popup, there is a

<meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex,follow’ />

Why noindex ?

Still no pretty urls by any means. Can’t your plugin produce pretty urls ?

If https://website.com/photo-albums/wppaspec/oc1/cv0/abNew%20Album%201 isnt pretty, what is?

Also in each lightbox popup, there is a

<meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex,follow’ />

Why noindex ?

Please explain where you find this. I can hardly believe that this is generated by wppa….

Try this:

Untick Table IV-A7
Tick Table IV-A10
Run Table VIII-B10

This will create a page with the name of the photo as the title for every photo that you can address with a clean url.

You will notice a substantial loss in functionality.

Hi.

The robots noindex is there in the source view of each lighbox popup. I have disabled all plugins but yours, so it is a stock WP test site. I have no idea from where this comes if not your plugin.

I have tried the page for each photo with clean url but this creates one page for each photo and i (will) have a lot of photos, so it will be a mess.

So let’s compact this:

1. Pretty urls for me are “https://website.com/albums/nameOfAlbum&#8221; and “https://website.com/albums/nameOfAlbum/nameofphoto&#8221;.

2. Each page should have a UNIQUE title tag, since titles are the most important element for google and that has not been changed the last 10 years.

I will try SEO FRAMEWORK plugin that i use elsewhere, to see if it helps a bit to titles.

I’m not a programmer so i have no idea if all these can be implemented to your plugin. But if they can, please consider them for some future versions.

Thanks

ok. A correction.

The noindex comes from “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” i had enabled to my test site. Nothing to do with your plugins.

1. Pretty urls for me are “https://website.com/albums/nameOfAlbum&#8221; and “https://website.com/albums/nameOfAlbum/nameofphoto&#8221;.

If you can tell me how to distinguish this being an identification of a wppa album from a sub page of albums named nameOfAlbum…

What if you have a page named Joe and an album named Joe and you want to display the album Joe on the frontpage; i.e. what would this mean: https://mysite.com/Joe ? Page Joe or album Joe ?

What are your objections against insering /wppaspec and adding ab to get /abnameofalbum ?

Because /wppaspec doesn’t mean anything to search engines.

About the how to distinguish an wppa album from a sub page, Joe-1 or Joe-2 could be used. I dunno. Something meaninfull to search engines.

Anyway, i see you have your agenda about this, still please consider it a little bit.

Also is anyone running a large library of photos with your plugin that could tell us how his photos are doing in search engines ?

Also please consider to add full meta titles to each album and each photo.

thanks

To create https://website.com/albums/nameOfAlbum
and https://website.com/albums/nameOfAlbum/nameofphoto
is no problem, but requires some manual actions.

Create a page with name albums
Create a page with name nameOfAlbum
Make it a child of page albums.
Verify that wp sets its permalink to
https://website.com/albums/nameOfAlbum

The content of the page be:

[wppa type="thumbs" album="$nameOfAlbum"][/wppa]

Use the autopage system for photos.
Set the parent of the pages for the photos in album nameOfAlbum to the page nameOfAlbum.
Now you will have
https://website.com/albums/nameOfAlbum/nameofphoto
but no slideshow, unless you define pages with slideshows.
See also: https://wppa.opajaap.nl/shortcode-reference/

and it is your responsability to keep track of uniqueness of album name, photo names within albums, and page names.

Your suggestion for meta titles will be considered.

Thank you !