Gallery Keywords

chipphillips

I'm a little confused as to the purpose of gallery keywords. Are these important to have and should they be a combination of all the keywords for all images within the gallery, or a more general smaller set of keywords?
Thanks, Chip
www.chipphillipsphotography.com

Andy

They'll help your images be found on SmugMug and Google, use them http://www.smugmug.com/help/picture-storage
http://www.smugmug.com/help/search-engines.

chipphillips

Thanks Andy.
I have my bio keywords listed with this code:

<meta name="description" content="kewyords........." />

Is this the best way? and, how many keywords do you think I should put on in my bio box?
Thanks for the help on this!
Chip

www.chipphillipsphotography.com

Andy

you don't need ANY in your bio box. You've already filled out your site & homepage meta in CP, Settings Tab.

LichtenHansen

chipphillips wrote: »

Thanks Andy.
I have my bio keywords listed with this code:

<meta name="description" content="kewyords........." />

Is this the best way? and, how many keywords do you think I should put on in my bio box?
Thanks for the help on this!
Chip

www.chipphillipsphotography.com

Fill your homepage meta AND your Bio box with a short description - about 120 char. Otherwise you will see the usual Smugmug spam "Billions of happy photos....." in your popular photos, feeds and other places.
Also be sure to add a description to all your galleries, and caption to all your photos.
There is however no way to get rid of all the Smugmug spam Meta keywords (photo sharing, online photo album.....) - to minimize it - add something to your gallery keyword etc.

Andy

LichtenHansen wrote: »

Fill your homepage meta AND your Bio box with a short description - about 120 char. Otherwise you will see the usual Smugmug spam "Billions of happy photos....." in your popular photos, feeds and other places.
Also be sure to add a description to all your galleries, and caption to all your photos.
There is however no way to get rid of all the Smugmug spam Meta keywords (photo sharing, online photo album.....) - to minimize it - add something to your gallery keyword etc.

Not true, no need to fill anything in the bio if you don't want to - if you use the homepage and site meta in your control panel. We'll use that info. If that info is not present, AND there's nothing in the gallery description, we'll use our meta (billions of happy photos...).

LichtenHansen

Andy wrote: »

Not true, no need to fill anything in the bio if you don't want to - if you use the homepage and site meta in your control panel. We'll use that info. If that info is not present, AND there's nothing in the gallery description, we'll use our meta (billions of happy photos...).

Well, Andy.
You better check out this page: http://southwestliz.smugmug.com/popular/
and countless other popular pages.

Google says about Meta Descriptions: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35264#1
"create descriptions that accurately describe the specific page"

"Billions of happy photos..." is hardly an accurate description of any page except the SM home page.
"Billions of happy photos..." should not be added to any customer page. It is just spam.

The same with the spam meta keywords - why have you added these again?

Claude203

"Otherwise you will see the usual Smugmug spam "Billions of happy photos....." in your popular photos, feeds and other places."

Actually, I have the same problem as Allan Hansen above. I'm using homepage and site meta and my "most popular" gallery is still showing up on Google Alerts with the "billions" wording.

How can I get rid of those SmugMug words in all Google searches including Most Popular, etc.?

Thank you.

Claude203

Anyone? Thank you.

Andy

Claude203 wrote: »

Anyone? Thank you.

It's a bug, we're gonna fix it.

Claude203

Andy wrote: »

It's a bug, we're gonna fix it.

Thanks for answering in other thread. Apologies for duplication.