Addding tags to website images. Does it help?

Hello,
Sometimes we add tag to a image. so that we can easily separate those image from other image through WP Query.
You can add tag to a image. It may be helpful for your google indexing.
thanks.

It’s difficult for anyone to say unequivocally whether doing any particular thing will improve search ranking (except for some obvious measures like moving content from behind a pay wall) For one, it depends on the search engine. You are probably focused on Google. There’s only a few Google engineers who can accurately answer your question, and they are not talking. The rest of us are guessing based on mostly anecdotal evidence. And what we decided works last month may not apply next month.

I personally don’t think tags will help, but it’s a possibility. Like nearly everyone else, I don’t know how Google ranks content. The main thing is to be sure there are links from other pages to the content you want indexed. Use an XML sitemap and be sure the links are on there as well. Be sure the Google bot can access your content. Use the “Fetch as Google” tool of Google Search Console to be sure the bot has no trouble. If you have not used GSC, you should start. The bot can sometimes have difficulty accessing individual gallery images because of how the gallery is implemented. I’m not familiar with this plugin, so I could not say if this might be an issue.

It’s probably a good idea for images to be accompanied by descriptive text, IMO. This is where tags might help. Not as tags per se, but merely as additional textual information. Unless your previous URLs correlate with the new WP URLs, you should setup .htaccess 301 redirects from old to new. My understanding is the new page will then inherit at least part the previous page’s page rank. Even if it didn’t, you should still setup redirects for the benefit of your visitors. Redirects probably also increase the chances of the new content being indexed.

Finally, realize that it can take a good amount of time before Google gets around to indexing new pages.

@bcworkz Thanks. I understand what you are saying. I know my site has been indexed by google, but the images in my gallery did not. On my old site, my gallery was manually created. I created a thumbnail for each image and had a display page of thumbnails and clicking on a thumbnail would open the image in a new page. I did not have a slideshow feature. Google had no problem indexing my images on my old site. I think the Photo Gallery plugin, might be the problem here. Even though I have added detailed descriptions and Alt/Titles for each image, I don’t think this info is directly attached to the image in the html coding but is pulled from the plugin database when the photo is displayed. The reason I believe this is that hovering the curser the thumbnails on my site, or the images in the gallery slide show don’t not produce a pop up text telling you what the image is. Hover over the twitter or facebook images at the bottom left of this page to see what I mean. I have also looked at the source code of my pages and do not see any information about the images in the code. So when google’s spider crawls the page, it sees an image with no information about it, so it does not know what it is.

I may need to talk to the plugin creator to see how I can fix this.

I agree, that is your best course of action. It may be that you need a more SEO friendly gallery plugin. Good luck!

No response from the plugin developer and I don’t think I will get one as I see many support questions that have never been answered. For a plugin with 300,000 active installs and a 4.5 star rating with 899 reviews, I am a little surprised. I may have to try another plugin. I tried the NexGEN Gallery plugin in first, but hated it and got tiered of the constant pestering to Upgrade for only $89 a MONTH!. Give me a break! Who does that plugin developer think he is, MICROSOFT! I can rent Office 360 for only $4.99 a month and he wants $89.00. What a joke!

Can you recommend a better photo gallery plugin then Photo Gallery by WD? It is the second most use one behind NextGEN.

That’s unfortunate. I’m sorry to hear that. I may not be the best person to ask for a solution. I’ve always used some sort of canned, basic jQuery or JS framework library as a basis for developing my own look. There’s no UI to speak of unless it’s developed. I’ve often used WooTheme’s FlexSlider 2 for this. Just the free jQuery library, not the premium WP plugin. I can manage making a plugin out of it myself. This is not an endorsement, I’m merely stating a fact.

I can’t even say how SEO friendly the result is. I’ve not been concerned with the ranking of individual attachment pages. It would be my own fault anyway, as that aspect is unrelated to FlexSlider and related on how I choose to configure the pages myself. It should be OK though, provided the attachment pages have adequate textual information like previously discussed. The initial links are all part of the original page’s DOM and not introduced by script, so Google Bot should have no trouble crawling everything.