Google messes up your customisations

cptkoi

I recently did a search using google on 'england netball images' and I was pleasantly surprised to see my smugmug listing.
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However my joy turned to sadness when I discovered that following the link did indeed take me to my gallery and images but my customisations were not kept and the smugmug logo was back at the top of the page with the over-sized footer too.
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As soon as I went to another page my customisations kicked in but if i sat and browsed that gallery i had to suffer the smugmug branding.

If this is by design to promote smugmug then I want a refund given that I paid extra not to see all that stuff!


H

Andy

cptkoi wrote:

If this is by design to promote smugmug then I want a refund given that I paid extra not to see all that stuff!


H

Show us the google search, please, that you used? Thanks. And the resulting gallery links that you get. Put them in a reply here.

At the moment, there is a bug related to certain gallery styles, it's been fixed internally and should be on the site VERY soon, like a day or so.

cptkoi

The Google Search URL;
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GZAZ_en-GBGB250GB250&q=england+netball+images

A third of the way down the page you get this URL;
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/4517271_taenM/1/265937146_252yg

and the page/image URL when you follow the above;
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/4517271_taenM/1/265937146_252yg#265937146

H

Andy

cptkoi wrote:

The Google Search URL;
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GZAZ_en-GBGB250GB250&q=england+netball+images

A third of the way down the page you get this URL;
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/4517271_taenM/1/265937146_252yg

and the page/image URL when you follow the above;
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/4517271_taenM/1/265937146_252yg#265937146

H

Yes, that's not related to the bug we had.

Did you ever have your gallery there as "hide owner?"
Have you followed all my search tips, here:
http://wiki.smugmug.com/display/SmugMug/Maximize+Search+Engine+Findability

(all of them?)
...

Let us know?

PS It all works, try googling for

westchester senior portrait

and see my link near the top.

cptkoi

Andy wrote:

Yes, that's not related to the bug we had.

Did you ever have your gallery there as "hide owner?"
Have you followed all my search tips, here:
http://wiki.smugmug.com/display/SmugMug/Maximize+Search+Engine+Findability

(all of them?)
...

Let us know?

PS It all works, try googling for

westchester senior portrait

and see my link near the top.

I set the gallery up the same as all the others that are 'public' as far as I am aware. The gallery looked/worked like all the others with my customisations when it was setup too.

No I haven't followed all the search tips as I just want somewhere 'simple' to upload my images so people could see them, with minimal smugmug references.

I'm glad its working for you, its not for me!

H

Andy

cptkoi wrote:

No I haven't followed all the search tips as I just want somewhere 'simple' to upload my images so people could see them, with minimal smugmug references.

But the search tips are there specifically to get you the best search results

Are you unwilling to at least register your site with Google? If you don't do that, well, I'm so sorry. Really, how long does it take? 90 seconds? Surely you can afford 90 seconds.

DrDavid

Going to www.smugmug.com creates the smugmug basic style, while going to hdimages.smugmug.com creates YOUR site with all the features you've added.

I'd put good money that at some point, you posted a share link as www.... or you had the hide owner turned on, and google saw it as www instead of hdimages. Registering your site should let you fix the problem.

I can see this as something that SM could make nicer. If the gallery, even if accessed via. www.smugmug.com/.... isn't set to "hide owner", perhaps a redirect to <username>.smugmug.com would make things work nicer (and more as expected)?

David

Andy

DrDavid wrote:

Going to www.smugmug.com creates the smugmug basic style, while going to hdimages.smugmug.com creates YOUR site with all the features you've added.

I'd put good money that at some point, you posted a share link as www.... or you had the hide owner turned on, and google saw it as www instead of hdimages. Registering your site should let you fix the problem.

As would all the search tips that I've given.

I can see this as something that SM could make nicer. If the gallery, even if accessed via. www.smugmug.com/.... isn't set to "hide owner", perhaps a redirect to <username>.smugmug.com would make things work nicer (and more as expected)?

David

Andhow would we do that? If google got the 'hideowner' url somehow, we can't undo it. Google reindexing will do it though

DrDavid

Andy wrote:

Andhow would we do that? If google got the 'hideowner' url somehow, we can't undo it. Google reindexing will do it though

Same way my javascript redirect works. Basically, check if the gallery is 'hide user', and the request URL is www., then leave it alone. If it is NOT hide user, and the request URL is www, redirect to <username>.

Similar to my, "If it's drdavid.smugmug.com, redirect to www.wolfsnap.com".. That way changes to hide owner can take effect immediately... Yeah, not really a common issue, but, probably isn't a lot of effort either. Of course, you can probably do the same thing in your own JS section to redirect....... I'm not entirely sure HOW at this point, but, there's probably a way.. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/lol3.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

David

Andy

DrDavid wrote:

Same way my javascript redirect works. Basically, check if the gallery is 'hide user', and the request URL is www., then leave it alone. If it is NOT hide user, and the request URL is www, redirect to <username>.

Similar to my, "If it's drdavid.smugmug.com, redirect to www.wolfsnap.com".. That way changes to hide owner can take effect immediately... Yeah, not really a common issue, but, probably isn't a lot of effort either. Of course, you can probably do the same thing in your own JS section to redirect....... I'm not entirely sure HOW at this point, but, there's probably a way.. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/lol3.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

David

Make it a FR if you like, I'm not sure if it is at all possible but ...

DrDavid

Andy wrote:

Make it a FR if you like, I'm not sure if it is at all possible but ...

eh, doesn't affect me.. And, besides, I took the 90 seconds to register with Google. I'd much rather have my own pet-features implemented <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/thumb.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > (Did you say COUPONS and PACKAGES?!?) <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/lol3.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > <--I just found that emoticon after looking for it FOREVER.. I love it, and I always looked right past it on the list.. Sheesh, I'm going blind apparently. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/rolleyes1.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

David