Custom <title> tag on Catagories/Galleries?

Hikin' Mike

Is there a way to have custom <title> tags on each of my Galleries? :dunno

jfriend

There isn't a way to control a custom tag for a category (of the form that a search engine would see). If, what you're trying to do is get something different to show in the title bar of the browser for a category, that can be done with javascript. Let me know the category and what you want it to show and I can help you with the javascript to set that.

Hikin' Mike

jfriend wrote: »

There isn't a way to control a custom <title> tag for a category (of the form that a search engine would see). If, what you're trying to do is get something different to show in the title bar of the browser for a category, that can be done with javascript. Let me know the category and what you want it to show and I can help you with the javascript to set that.

I didn't think so. It has as to be read by search engines. Thanks John.

Smugmug - IMO, that would be a great addition. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/bowdown.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

jfriend

Hikin' Mike wrote: »

I didn't think so. It has as to be read by search engines. Thanks John.

Smugmug - IMO, that would be a great addition. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/bowdown.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

FYI, in galleries, the text in your gallery description goes in a <meta> tag for the gallery page which is seen by search engines.

In my categories, the category name is already in the <title> tag.

Hikin' Mike

jfriend wrote: »

FYI, in galleries, the text in your gallery description goes in a <meta> tag for the gallery page which is seen by search engines.

In my categories, the category name is already in the <title> tag.

Maybe I'm missing something, it happens a lot lately!

My Landscape Category: http://mike.imagesinthebackcountry.com/Landscapes/yosemite-landscape/15036862_brFqf#1123156227_8ib9V

The <title> tag says "Central Valley CA - Landscape, Nature, Wildlife & Inspirational Pictures : Landscapes". I don't want to list Nature, Wildlife & Inspirational. I would like to include Yosemite, Merced and SeKi....or something like that.

Same thing for my galleries. I want to tailor it to that gallery. Does that make sense?

It looks like you (Smugmug) can't do that at this time. :cry

jfriend

Hikin' Mike wrote: »

Maybe I'm missing something, it happens a lot lately!

My Landscape Category: http://mike.imagesinthebackcountry.com/Landscapes/yosemite-landscape/15036862_brFqf#1123156227_8ib9V

The <title> tag says "Central Valley CA - Landscape, Nature, Wildlife & Inspirational Pictures : Landscapes". I don't want to list Nature, Wildlife & Inspirational. I would like to include Yosemite, Merced and SeKi....or something like that.

Same thing for my galleries. I want to tailor it to that gallery. Does that make sense?

It looks like you (Smugmug) can't do that at this time. :cry

There is no direct control over the title tag that a search engine sees. You influence parts of it in some cases, but not control it directly.

Erick L

The gallery name should go in the title tag. That's how it is on my site and I thought was the same for everyone.

Hikin' Mike

jfriend wrote: »

There is no direct control over the title tag that a search engine sees. You influence parts of it in some cases, but not control it directly.

It would be a nice feature. Having a custom <title> tag on the home page is nice, but the keywords I use on my home page are not necessarily relevant to all of my categories/galleries.

Erick L wrote: »

The gallery name should go in the title tag. That's how it is on my site and I thought was the same for everyone.

It is for me too. I was hoping to have a different <title> tag for each gallery.

Andy

Hikin' Mike wrote: »

It is for me too. I was hoping to have a different <title> tag for each gallery.

But you do- it's controlled by the NiceName of the Gallery.

Hikin' Mike

Andy wrote: »

But you do- it's controlled by the NiceName of the Gallery.

Not really. The NiceNames a great for urls, but not for title tags. To change the title tags, I have to change the actual gallery title. That would be okay if Smugmug didn't tack on my home page title too.

I'm sure I'm in the minority about this, so that's okay.

Erick L

Ok, I see. It's just that your homepage title is quite long. Personally, I would only put your site name in your homepage title and add the "Landscape, blah blah..." in your homepage description via the settings in the control panel. One of the SEO change for SM was putting the gallery title first and the site title at the end. It's pretty standard.

Hikin' Mike

Erick L wrote: »

Ok, I see. It's just that your homepage title is quite long. Personally, I would only put your site name in your homepage title and add the "Landscape, blah blah..." in your homepage description via the settings in the control panel. One of the SEO change for SM was putting the gallery title first and the site title at the end. It's pretty standard.

Nobody is going to search for your name or your business name. They won't know you.

Erick L

Hikin' Mike wrote: »

Nobody is going to search for your name or your business name. They won't know you.

Actually, people do search for it because they already know the name and use Google to find it. But the name is there just... because it's the website name. The rest "nature photography blah blah blah" should go in the site description. This is standard for most websites. Every photo at Smugmug has it's own "page" and title (extracted from the caption) and there's more chance that people will find things deep within your site than a gallery on its own. And for something as popular as Yosemite, I would keep the captions short, varied and descriptive.