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    • CommentAuthorpkearney
    • CommentTimeJul 2nd 2008 edited
     
    Hi,

    Before I get all artistic and add in great descriptions to all my photos, do these get indexed by the likes of google? Could someone find my gallery based upon what is in a description for either an album or individual photo?

    My assumption is no, as the gallery webpages are dynamic, so is there any way to increase the visibility of gallery albums or photos to search engines?

    Thanks

    Paul
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      CommentAuthorsidtheduck
    • CommentTimeJul 2nd 2008 edited
     
    Hi Paul,

    In theory, if you have Cruft-Free URLs on or URLs with less than 2 $_GET variable query strings, google (and most other modern search engines) will index each of the pages. You can do all sorts of SEO optimization to try to up your "SEO score" by meta tags, cross-linking, outside links, etc.

    But to answer your question, "Yes (in theory)" a person should be able to get to your site by searching for keywords that you have typed within your description. A cruft-free URL (I believe) is indexed as a static page and any content on that page should be indexed and catalogued as well. In practice, I have not tested this, however, and so may not be the best person to ask.
    • CommentAuthorpkearney
    • CommentTimeJul 3rd 2008
     
    Hi Sid,

    Thanks for the reply. OK then I'll have a go at setting up the cruft free URLs and see how we get on :-)

    Regards

    Paul
    • CommentAuthorpkearney
    • CommentTimeJul 3rd 2008
     
    Hi,

    Before I start messing with files and break a working site :-) I've ticked the cruft free URLs in the admin page, but if I browse to the gallery it is still using the original ' ?level=album&id=2 ' type url.

    This is a copy of the .htaccess file in the root directory of my plogger install (found at www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries),

    # BEGIN Plogger

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /galleries
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
    RewriteRule ^.*$ - [S=2]
    RewriteRule feed/$ plog-rss.php?path=%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
    RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php?path=%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END Plogger


    Now I am not sure if the 'mod_rewrite' is already present in that file, or if I should be looking at a .htaccess file in another directory?

    Regards

    Paul
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      CommentAuthorsidtheduck
    • CommentTimeJul 3rd 2008
     
    • CommentAuthorpkearney
    • CommentTimeJul 3rd 2008
     
    Hi Sid,

    Perfect worked a treat :-)

    Now I'm running the latest beta I think, should I be making notes of any changes I make so I can redo them should I upgrade? Or are these on the fly bug fixes that I can ignore...

    Thanks for all your efforts!

    Paul

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