Galleries not being crawled SEO help

Scott_Lyons

Hi, I'm trying to understand why my galleries are not being crawled (or showing up in a google search). An example of this is if I search for "Scott Lyons Lancaster Bomber" you will see that a few other sites I host on appear but the only SmugMug link is to my base home page, not the gallery where the image is hosted. I would have expected the following link to be found: https://www.scottlyons.co.uk/Gallery/Aircraft/i-qkmBL4j/A

Looking at my gallery settings they are set to use the site wide setting of being searchable, and that site wide setting is enabled. Is there something else I'm missing or is this a limitation of SmugMug?

Bea

Hi Scott,

It looks like your domain is not set up correctly...could you please make sure to point your custom domain to your SmugMug site as explained here: https://help.smugmug.com/use-a-custom-domain-BymMexwJVHG .
The custom hostname www.scottlyons.co.uk is not correctly configured with a CNAME record.

If you try that link https://www.scottlyons.co.uk/Gallery/Aircraft/i-qkmBL4j/A you'll see it's broken.

jimh

I've tried for a long time to get my SmugMug gallery indexed - and I've concluded that it's not possible, unless you can somehow generate a lot of traffic first, without being found on Google.

I've written some blog posts on my efforts; here's the most recent:
https://jimhphoto.com/index.php/2021/09/14/smugmug-and-google-the-taste-of-failure/