URL aliases

agunther

Would it be possible to have personalized URL aliases?

Background:
I am hosting my own website where I also displayed my galleries. About 3 years ago I set up a Smugmug pro account so that I could sell my pictures.
I optimized my website galleries for maximum search impact. One part of this is to have hand chosen urls for each image
example:
http://www.aguntherphotography.com/usa_west/valley-of-fire-sp/cave.html
the same image exists in my Smugmug account:
http://store.aguntherphotography.com/USA/WEST/Valley-of-Fire/10964686_R3JyH#766228104_cFgkz

I would love to consolidate my efforts and permanently replace my own gallery hosting with my Smugmug Pro account.
It would be nice if I could forward all my picture urls to a subdomain that points to my smugmug account, but it would be much easier if I could replicate the url structure of my own website (including the .html)

Since those are simply search friendly urls of my CMS and not html files, I assume that something like this should be possible?
I appreciate any comments you may have that help me get this project done.

gluwater

agunther wrote:

Would it be possible to have personalized URL aliases?

Background:
I am hosting my own website where I also displayed my galleries. About 3 years ago I set up a Smugmug pro account so that I could sell my pictures.
I optimized my website galleries for maximum search impact. One part of this is to have hand chosen urls for each image
example:
http://www.aguntherphotography.com/usa_west/valley-of-fire-sp/cave.html
the same image exists in my Smugmug account:
http://store.aguntherphotography.com/USA/WEST/Valley-of-Fire/10964686_R3JyH#766228104_cFgkz

I would love to consolidate my efforts and permanently replace my own gallery hosting with my Smugmug Pro account.
It would be nice if I could forward all my picture urls to a subdomain that points to my smugmug account, but it would be much easier if I could replicate the url structure of my own website (including the .html)

Since those are simply search friendly urls of my CMS and not html files, I assume that something like this should be possible?
I appreciate any comments you may have that help me get this project done.

I checked out the file on your SmugMug account and you can do something similar but you'd need to rename all your files and re-upload them. That image is http://store.aguntherphotography.com/USA/WEST/Valley-of-Fire/IMG0183/766285776_uXHXz-X3.jpg on SmugMug where IMG0183 is the filename. If you would name it cave.jpg before uploading it the URL would then be http://store.aguntherphotography.com/USA/WEST/Valley-of-Fire/cave/766285776_uXHXz-X3.jpg. There isn't any way to replicate the .html extension or to remove the 766285776_uXHXz-X3.jpg.

We've got some SEO tips on this help page that you may also want to look at: http://www.smugmug.com/help/search-engines

agunther

gluwater wrote:

I checked out the file on your SmugMug account and you can do something similar but you'd need to rename all your files and re-upload them. That image is http://store.aguntherphotography.com/USA/WEST/Valley-of-Fire/IMG0183/766285776_uXHXz-X3.jpg on SmugMug where IMG0183 is the filename. If you would name it cave.jpg before uploading it the URL would then be http://store.aguntherphotography.com/USA/WEST/Valley-of-Fire/cave/766285776_uXHXz-X3.jpg. There isn't any way to replicate the .html extension or to remove the 766285776_uXHXz-X3.jpg.

We've got some SEO tips on this help page that you may also want to look at: http://www.smugmug.com/help/search-engines

Thanks gluwater. Thats one step further to the goal.
I am trying to figure out how to forward all my urls with mod rewrite. Not having .html is probably o.k., but if there is some random picture number in the url, I can forget forwarding all my url requests to a corresponding smugmug url.
Need to put on my thinking hat in a lazy moment. Meanwhile, bring on the good ideas.

agunther

Hello gluwater,

I tried your suggestion, but it appears that I still need more help.

I just uploaded a new gallery, following your guidelines.
I put one image on my website:
http://www.aguntherphotography.com/usa_west/hovenweep-nm/hv-stronghold-house.html
The name of the image is:
hv-stronghold-house.jpg
I uploaded the image with exactly this name to my smugmug gallery, but it came out looking like this:
http://store.aguntherphotography.com/gallery/11030079_DKafB#771522763_7ypKj

Andy

agunther wrote:

Hello gluwater,

I tried your suggestion, but it appears that I still need more help.

I just uploaded a new gallery, following your guidelines.
I put one image on my website:
http://www.aguntherphotography.com/usa_west/hovenweep-nm/hv-stronghold-house.html
The name of the image is:
hv-stronghold-house.jpg
I uploaded the image with exactly this name to my smugmug gallery, but it came out looking like this:
http://store.aguntherphotography.com/gallery/11030079_DKafB#771522763_7ypKj

please write our Support Heroes, ATTN: Doc/Nick and let us help you directly from the help desk. Thanks!

SamirD

Fascinating problem. Please share whatever solution you end up with for this.

agunther

SamirD wrote:

Fascinating problem. Please share whatever solution you end up with for this.

Still trading emails with the support team. Will post whatever we come up with. The guys are really awesome!

SamirD

agunther wrote:

Still trading emails with the support team. Will post whatever we come up with.

Thank you.

agunther wrote:

The guys are really awesome!

Yes they are!