smugmug filenames are not SEO friendly

  • Resolved jinspin

    (@jinspin)


    3 years ago

    I am using photonic to display photos from my smugmug album. I named the filenames of each photo with descriptive text so it is SEO friendly.

    But I see that in html code generated by photonic – it shows photo file names as not SEO friendly like i-cCBD8Vr-X5.jpg

    madison-community-pool-nj-staff-3

    Is there a way for photonic to use the original text filenames in HTML so it is SEO friendly from smugmug?

    I added Titles to each photo in smugmug so html alt displays Title text. Is there anything else I can do to make photonic SEO friendly when display photos from smugmug?

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  • Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    Photonic has no control over this and neither do you. The names that Photonic shows are the true ones saved in SmugMug and returned via the API. Though you may think you are creating SEO-friendly names, SmugMug does not change what it stores internally.

    Thread Starter jinspin

    (@jinspin)

    So sadly you are saying photonic is not SEO friendly with smugmug because smugmug uses cryptic filenames. Photonic works well but this a big hit.

    Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    Sorry… what? You are implying that this is a shortcoming with Photonic.

    How is this a Photonic problem? The plugin can only read what SmugMug is providing to it. If SmugMug was providing this information in an “SEO-friendly” way (not that an image file’s name impacts SEO – only the title does), Photonic would be able to pull it without issues.

    If this is a problem, you might want to consider logging a feature request with SmugMug itself: they will have to provide your data in this format. I will modify the plugin to pull this information at that point.

    Thread Starter jinspin

    (@jinspin)

    Ok I emailed smugmug if there is anything they can do about filenames.

    I noticed that on smugmug website when you click on image in album to see it full screen and check html – it does reference real file name. So I don’t know if API allows access to that.

    <meta property="og:image" content="https://photos.smugmug.com/Events-2022/Madison-Living-Madison-Pool/i-x2q4KHj/0/0fdd57db/XL/madison-community-pool-nj-staff-2-XL.jpg"/>

    Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    I am back at a computer, and I have had a chance to look into this in-depth.

    On my demo page, if you look at the HTML, the file names of the images are the ones that I loaded – it is not a cryptic name. I haven’t changed the file names from whatever the camera/phone created (since this has no impact on SEO, contrary to your point) so the names of the photos are still similar to DSC_0702.jpg (that is Nikon’s format).

    When I look at the API results, they have the same information. So it looks like SmugMug is storing the file name, the API is returning the file name in the URL, and Photonic is pulling it in just fine. You might have something else going on with your setup. If you need me to take a look, please provide a URL.

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