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

For what it’s worth. Google doesn’t index or follow java script and flash.

I’d also like to point out that im having issues with getting my images indexed.

Firstly, My site has A LOT of content on it, Lots of game reviews, and each game review has ~100 UNIQUE images that I took myself of the game. My site has total of 10,000 unique images, and in 3 months or so, only 250 or so have been indexed.

This is my biggest complaint with nextgen gallery, and I’m almost ready to pay someone to fix it. Heck, Alex, you got a $50 donation coming from me as soon as this issue is resolved, or whenever you decide to address it. until then, keep up the awesome work. Your plugin is the BEST plugin there is for wordpress.

I Recommend others who are having the issue to also commit a donation to our friend Alex, even if its not for this particular issue. His plugin ROCKS!

Actually, I only have 95 indexed pictures, i just did the site:domain in the image search. Thats 95 out of 10,000+ unique pictures! [All surrounded by unique content!]

I got images from NextGen gallery indexed buy google-images but they link to the gallery folder and not to the page on the website where the gallery displays. It happens with all the indexed gallery pics ( site:mosh-art.com at google images)

I’m using NextGen+NextGEN-FlashViewer, 6 month old versions

If anyone has an idea why this happens, I’d be happy to know

To clarify this post by Alex re: canonical feature.

The canonical meta tag is meant for pages with vastly similar content that can be reached via different URLs. You specify your preferred URL to help reduced duplicate content.

Here’s the issue/bug:

I’m using WP 2.7.1 / NGG 1.2.1 and have set up an Album on a Page with several Galleries and turned ON canonical links via AIO SE.

First access is via page: /gallery/

My galleries are displayed with links to them eg:

/nggallery/page-15/album-1/gallery-2/
/nggallery/page-15/album-1/gallery-7/

The problem is each of those pages is given the same canonical meta tag which is /gallery/. This is not correct as the pages are showing different content and should be indexed as such.

I’ve only quickly flicked through the plugin code, but it probably relates to /lib/rewrite.php #215 and the call to get_permalink().

…yes, I have noticed that the comments in that file show the rewrite coding is needing some attention to clean-up the URLs to fit a more SEO naming convention.

If your remove the canonical tag, then you have the risk that google recognize the code as dublicate content. I added this tag to avoid this.

I agree that it maybe didn’t recognize albums & galleries. I’m currently analyse this at my test blog, I’ve I can see that it lead in the wrong direction, I will remove the code

I think you need to document this a little more – making users aware of the effects the canonical tag could have on Google’s index.

Using the default settings, I created 10 Galleries all with completely different images. After viewing each page source I can see that Google was being told to index them all at the same URL my-site.com/gallery/

– not cool ??

Off course I’m running into the same issue for referencing pictures thru google image.
And I have a suggestions regarding the possible cause of the problem :
usually all the htlm pages I remember are formatted with the “title” and the “alt” following the “scr” tag not the invert way as it seems to be in nextgen…
Meaning :
<img src=”https://mywebsite.com/blabla.jpg&#8221; title=”blabla.jpg” alt=”blabla description” width=”500″ height=”500″>
instead of
<img title=”blabla.jpg” alt=”blabla description” src=”https://mywebsite.com/blabla.jpg&#8221; width=”500″ height=”500″>

any thoughts ?

The order in which you write image attributes has no affect/makes no difference.

This issue is driving me nuts. I LOVE NExtgen gallery, but NONE of my images are getting indexed! My site has been around for over 4 months now, and ranks on google for A LOT of competitive keywords and has some fair PR, but my images aren’t getting indexed.

I have now 13,000 images in Nextgen gallery, all unique images with ALL The file names UNIQUE as well [I manually named every image i took, to accurately display whats in the image itself], yet out of 13k images, 130 are indexed, and this figure has remained constant for the last few months. [I’ve checked daily]

If anyone has any tips for me, i would certainly like to hear you out.

@remotay – a link to the site in question might help ??

Have you checked Google bot has actually spidered all these pages?

You also realise that Google won’t index everything – just what it feels is useful.

mmohut.com/review/pangya

One example. It’s indexed on google already, but none of those images are showing up on google images.

I think I’ll leave it as this for just now as this thread is heading towards general SEO, not just ‘issues’ with NextGEN Gallery…

@remotay – you may want to include the other gallery pages in your site map:

mmohut.com/review/pangya?nggpage=2 / 3 / 4

Have you checked Google bot has actually spidered all these pages?

Stencil, if I added those pages to the sitemap, wouldn’t they be seen as plain ol duplicate content?

Plus that doesn’t answer why any of the images on the FIRST page aren’t indexed either. I have 150 pages just like the one I linked, each with over 20 images on them. If the sitemap was the only issue for the later pages, I should still have 3000 images indexed, but in reality I have 112, and this number is DECREASING, never increasing.

Also Stencin, thank you for the effort though. I didn’t mean to come off as ungrateful. Yes much of these pages are indeed indexed on google, so there has to be some sort of problem either with Nextgen or just the googlebot in general.