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I am also curious about this. Will XML sitemap add this, and if so, will it include NextGen galleries? I’m pretty sure that’s just me being overly optimistic.

I used the Firefox add-on ‘S3 Organizer’ to solve this.
It is available here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247

Once I had the add-on installed, I went to Tools –> S3 Organizer
I supplied the add-on with my credentials from Amazon S3, and then created a ‘Bucket’.

I could then use that Bucket name with W3 Total Cache with no problems.

I’ve made a small mock-up of what I mean just for clarification.

https://gelbachdesigns.com/mock-up-solution-image-SEO-nextgen.jpg

I think I have a solution for the Google images problem.

If there was a ‘view entire gallery’ button available for each gallery section or subsection, that showed each image on one page (with title, caption, desc, and tags), then I think Google would index those images.

The way the spiders follow links, the imagebrowser only gets a couple of images out there, while a more complete listing of the images on one page (or with <-< 1 2 3 4 >-> page links) would be indexed for sure.

This way, people could click on thumbs with the nice effects, but the listing of full or medium size images with all the text would be available to the spiders (googlebot) and sitemaps.

I’m not a php-er =( or I would do it. It seems like using the same function that displays the thumbnails could be altered to use larger image sizes, and add the title, caption, tags, etc. I think the pagination function is already there too.

I looked around to see if a solution had been found. I also looked through the Google code section to see if the issue was being worked on, but couldn’t find anything. Hopefully, I didn’t miss anything and this is an OK place to post this.

Alex, it can’t be said enough. You rock for creating this. I hope this helps in some small way.

I tried many of these solutions, but nothing worked completely until I uploaded imagerotator.swf to wp-content/uploads which was missing (the uploads directory was also missing).

In the WP control panel, go to gallery–>Options–>Slideshow to see if the path to imagerotator.swf is defined.

Thanks Raisthlin! I’ll give it a try ??

First thing I ran into was lightbox not being installed as a plugin. I would slap myself if it were not for ‘lightbox’ being in the dropdown list in nextgen (even tho there is a disclaimer about anything other than thickbox).

Installed the lightbox 2 plugin, cleared cache, still no joy.

A month later I have the same problem. I’ll look into the .js files, but in the meantime if anyone already knows the solution please do tell ??

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**).

Same problem here. GD and curl are installed and showing up in phpinfo queries, however nextgen and slickr cant see them. I’ve repeatedly tried deactivating and activating the plugins, even deleted and re-FTP’d.

I ran into a post saying that adding extension=php_curl.dll
to the php.ini worked, but it did nothing for me.

Any ideas how to slap the GD query into behaving sensibly?