Keywords gone missing?

gblotter

We have made extensive use of keywords for our photos. Suddenly today I am seeing no keywords - all gone.

http://blotter.smugmug.com/keyword

What's up SmugBros?

annnna8888

It seems you set your SmugMug search visibility (in account settings > discovery > search) to "No - total lockdown". That will prevent your keywords from being visible to your visitors. Only you as the logged in account owner can see them. If you don't want that, you'll need to change that setting, but note it might take a few hours before your photos are re-indexed.

Ana
SmugMug Support Hero

pabloconrad

quick question
Does hiding your keywords effect SEO?

denisegoldberg

pabloconrad wrote: »

Does hiding your keywords effect SEO?

It could. I found this on the page titled Webmaster Guidelines, Best practices to help Google find, crawl, and index your site:

Quality guidelines - specific guidelines

Avoid the following techniques:

• ...
• Hidden text or links
• ...

If your site violates one or more of these guidelines, then Google may take manual action against it.

--- Denise