[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Is Google image search indexing working on Next-Gen

I have nice permalinks in all of the 5 sites ??

https://images.google.com/images?q=site%3Anextgen.boelinger.com

The images are indexed, true, but they are all called “slideshow” or “random images” this makes it useless for google indexing!

a couple said [gallery] when i first looked at it

damn this really sucks, such as awesome plugin

have you tried that width height fix? I put it on one site but too early to see anything yet.

What is the usual time to get something in google images? i have never really paid close attention to it

appear to index reasonably well on this site

https://images.google.com/images?q=site%3Akeywesthairartist.com%20bridal&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS258US258&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

That keywesthairartist site has the aspect ratio box unchecked

and looking in the code that makes the image have no height or width attribute

it also, but this might be based on the version of nextgen, doesn’t have a “id” attribute to the anchor tag

i’m also having this problem. google images doesnt index any image uploaded with nextgen..

this is an important issue for my site, and i’m sure that i’m not the only one.

my website: https://tuninghost.ro

keep us posted about this

thanks

well.. im also having troubles indexing my pictures on google! they all have reasonably good alt tags! but.. still no indexing. this is a very strange issue. i did a site:critica.us on image search! but no results at all. any ideas?

btw.. ive installed nextgen more than a month ago! there are lots of google bots crawling, but still no image indexing. im not shure if this a nextgen related problem!!

First off, I want to say that this is an absolutely amazing plugin. I’m sure I speak for the whole community in saying, “thank you, you’re a lifesaver”.

Just wanted to report my problem as well, just in case it helps with the solution.

Nextgen back end reports 699 images.
Google is reporting 229, mostly ‘random images’ as the title (does badly for SEO, as i’m sure you’re aware).

Out of those 229, prolly about 30 are useless little .gifs and such from elsewhere in the site.

Here is the sitesearch string if it helps site:gelbachdesigns.com

Edit: Looking at the source generated– looks all good. I don’t see a reason google should be behaving this way with the NextGen gallery. Perhaps the problem is somewhere else in the code. Then again perhaps the issue is google (**hides under desk and covers head**).

After having done a bit of detective work on my own, I like to share my findings with you.

Google does not show URLs and images passed my album page . Non of my gallery pages have been indexed (with sitemap and permalinks enabled). Over time however, Google found images from the sidebar widget, 63 of 210. All of which show in Google Images only the widget heading and not the alt or meta information. This is a real SEO downer!

The problem can not be with Google since it indexes other images from my blog within hours.

Also, the galley title tag is not being displayed either, and for better SEO I would like to see a custom h1 heading.

Please also remember that you will have to direct a bit of PR juice to the gallery pages in order to rank at all.

Hope that helps.

What is the current status of this issue, Alex? Is this problem still outstanding?. I dont seem to have any of my images indexed either. My nggfunctions.php already has the changes mentioned by alex (thats probably because I have the latest version of nextgen v1.2).

Is it a matter of just waiting until google indexes images, or will i be waiting for ever?

From what i have read activating permalinks has no effect.

Is it just a matter of time, or is nextgen just NOT enabling google to index images in galleries?

I think an update of the status is required here, as there are so many posts to wade through and most are now out of date.

Many thanks
Anita Harris

No one home Anita.

I think this is a make or break issue that needs addressing asap.

waiting…

Currently i have no idea , why Google didn’t index your images. With V1.2.0 I included the canonical meta tag to avoid duplicate content and Google Webmaster tools didn’t show any error message anymore.

So my test page nextgen.boelinger.com are indexed by Google.

If somebody has any advice or idea, I’m happy for a tip

Hi Alex, I can not put too much time into this problem at the moment, so I’ll only post what I bump into.

#1 – I just found out that wordpress didn’t add any URLs for nextgen gallery to the sitemap. However, each image pops up in my other sitemap but with 4 links per image, 3 dead and 1 pointing to a permalink. I now filter out the dead ones and will keep you posted.

2# – this may not resolve the Google index problem but it’s really bad SEO to have the same title tag and heading for the entire album. Better is Title Tag = Album + Gallery + Pictures name (where the album name could be optional)
H1 Heading same
Have a look at the code and you’ll understand.

Don’t know if this info will be helpful or not, but here goes. I posted my most recent gallery last week, so I don’t expect it to be indexed yet, but the 2 previous galleries, posted Jan 14 and Nov 2, HAVE been indexed: site:laurelight.com. The previous 8 galleries don’t show up at all. Could it have something to do with upgrade timeing?

For what it’s worth, images from one, of maybe a dozen, non-NG posts have been indexed, along with a few random images from the site. I’m hoping the situation improves on its own over the next couple of weeks.

I also see that images via widgets are very fast indexed. At all I have no idea where I need to look for…