NextGEN Gallery creating odd links

Hi @wp800s,

This is sort of expected to have an URL per each of the gallery page if you’d use a tool that scans for all of the page links ( unless perhaps you’ll find a way to filter these ). Still, it shouldn’t return more entries than the actual pages’ amount of the gallery that you have included on the page.

Alternately, you can use a different WP SEO plugin such as Yoast and that’ll add only the origin page’s URL to the sitemap ignoring the pagination but including all of the paginated gallery’s images.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Imagely.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Imagely.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Imagely.

Thanks very much for a prompt reply.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is not a plug in. It is a desktop software, a website crawler. Therefore, whatever this software finds, any other crawler will find, like Bing or Googlebot. I do use Yoast BTW.

The problem is that the NextGEN Gallery plugin is creating those non-existing links. I already installed another photo gallery plugin, and on pages where I used this one instead of NextGEN, there are no such problems.

Please note that I do not refer to regular NextGEN page URLs. That’s fine. From my initial post, you can see the plugin is creating infinite links that do not exist in reality.

A link like this:

mysite.com/post-name/nggallery/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/contact/page/1

This is not ok, and it is a pure product of NextGEN plugin. To give you a good picture of this problem, if in the spider I exclude the /nggallery/ folder, I get around 1,500 hits (this includes HTML pages, images, css and javascript files, etc). If I let the spider include URLs with /nggallery/ in them, the count goes over 33,000 and still goes on. I looks like it will never end.

Why? I don’t know, and that is why I ask about it here, hoping to get some clue. The fast is that it happens only on pages with multi-page NextGEN galleries.

Thanks

Hello again,

Apology time!

Even though it is a live website, I took some courage and switched the theme.

No problem anymore.

I conclude that the problem WAS NOT about the NextGEN Gallery plugin, but the theme that is currently used for this particular website – Hueman.

This theme has some issues, and one of them is the creation of these dumb dummy non-existing links. It just happened that it manifested on the NextGEN Gallery, I don’t know why. I see no trouble with other links, but the /nggallery/ folder only for multi-page galleries.

Anyway, my apology again for jumping up and blaming the plugin. Not sure if you could actually test it, and maybe figure out the real reason, so this gets prevented.

The theme mentioned seems to be unsupported anymore (last reply was 9 months ago), even though the creators have active offers on their website. Not sure. All I want it to get away from it.

Cheers

And here I am again, taking back the apology. I just switched to another theme, and the problem is back again. This time the theme is a maintained one, Blocksy, and all these /nggallery/ subpages are back, thousands of them.

??

@wp800s,

To test if that’s due to a conflict with a theme or a plugin, you can temporarily deactivate all of the plugins excepting NextGen Gallery, switch to a theme from the Twenty series then test again to see if you’ll still get these weird links within Screaming Frog SEO Spider.

We were not able to replicate such a problem with Screaming Frog SEO Spider detecting such broken links.

Thanks very much. It turned the problem was an incorrect link that was the part of one of the widgets. Once that got fixed, the incorrect results stopped showing.

Thanks