No image count in Yoast sitemap

  • Resolved tizz

    (@tizz)


    7 years, 10 months ago

    Hi, it has been a long time since I write on this forum!
    Unfortunately I have to report that the new visual shortcode does not allow the Yoast SEO plugin’s sitemap to display the number of images in the galleries.
    Searching for a fix, strangely enough I haven’t found anything on the Nextgen forum, but several requests in SEO Yoast support, so I’m not the only one:
    https://goo.gl/iB5Lcs

    However, no fixes are proposed because the contributors of the plugin say that they don’t care about implement support for third-party plugin shortcodes, even for Nextgen (“This requires us to develop a completely custom logic to support NextGen specifics”), and this is reasonable.

    A screenshot of the sitemap is attached here.
    As you can see image numbers are “1”. Most of these URLs are galleries with dozens of images.
    At the top, only two galleries showed image numbers (21 and 25): they were the only ones with the legacy code (< img class=”ngg_displayed_gallery mceItem” src=”…” alt=”…” data-mce-placeholder=”1″/ >).
    At the bottom, you can see four galleries updated today: three of these still show the wrong number (after some indirects attempts to fix the issue), one shows the correct number (33), that immediately appeared when I simply replaced the new shortcode with the old.

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  • Plugin Contributor photocrati

    (@photocrati)

    Hey @tizz!!

    It’s great to see you again!! Unfortunately we are aware of some broken integration with Yoast SEO and we do plan to look into this further although we do not currently have a timeline for when exactly this will be addressed.

    Thanks for the feedback!

    – Cais.

    Thread Starter tizz

    (@tizz)

    Good to hear that you are aware of, because the issue has affected images indexing.

    A side note: with the visual shortcode there is also a negative SEO score – “the images on this page do not have alt attributes containing your focus keyword” (add the tag manually into the shortcode doesn’t work). The alt tag was legible in the old code.

    Thanks for your time Cais.

    Plugin Contributor photocrati

    (@photocrati)

    @tizz – Interesting to note you are seeing that negative SEO score … where is that reference coming from so we can see if/what we can do anything about it.

    Thanks!

    – Cais.

    Thread Starter tizz

    (@tizz)

    In Yoast content analysis (in this case, in the post/page editor), among others there is a check to see whether at least one image has an alt tag that contains the focus keyword for the post.

    In fact, one single image with the tag is enough to have a “green” (positive) result. In the legacy code like this… < img class=”ngg_displayed_gallery mceItem” src=”…” alt=”” data-mce-placeholder=”1″ > an empty alt tag is present and readable by Yoast, so I have always entered a keyword.

    In the visual shortcode the alt tag is missing, but Yoast wouldn’t detect it anyway because the plugin doesn’t read that shortcode itself.

    To see the page with the reference: https://yoast.com/use-content-analysis-yoast-seo/#step-6-check-seo-bullets

    Plugin Contributor photocrati

    (@photocrati)

    @tizz – I see what you are saying with this issue although I cannot think of a way to get around it; and, perhaps this may be more a false positive as most of our display types include an alt parameter by default via the image’s “Alt & Title” field.

    The page/post as seen in the TinyMCE editor would not have an image but the page/post rendered to the public facing views would, we’ll have to look into this further when we revisit our Yoast SEO integration methods.

    Thanks!

    – Cais.

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