WordPress › Support » [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Is Google image search indexing working on Next-Gen

Deeogee
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

do you have permalinks activated ?

i didn't on my blogs, and everyone on here so far saying google hasn't index their images seems to be using the default wordpress url structure

I don't know why that would make a difference, and maybe it doesn't but it appears to be something the sites have in common

also the boelinger example could be misleading because he has the random images running on all the pages , so its not 100% certain that the image in the image search came from the gallery or the random image section
Doniaa
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I have nice permalinks in all of the 5 sites :(
Doniaa
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

http://images.google.com/images?q=site%3Anextgen.boelinger.com

The images are indexed, true, but they are all called "slideshow" or "random images" this makes it useless for google indexing!
Deeogee
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

a couple said [gallery] when i first looked at it

damn this really sucks, such as awesome plugin

have you tried that width height fix? I put it on one site but too early to see anything yet.

What is the usual time to get something in google images? i have never really paid close attention to it
Deeogee
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

appear to index reasonably well on this site

http://images.google.com/images?q=site%3Akeywesthairartist.com%20bridal&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS258US258&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
Deeogee
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

That keywesthairartist site has the aspect ratio box unchecked

and looking in the code that makes the image have no height or width attribute

it also, but this might be based on the version of nextgen, doesn't have a "id" attribute to the anchor tag
tuninghost
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

i'm also having this problem. google images doesnt index any image uploaded with nextgen..

this is an important issue for my site, and i'm sure that i'm not the only one.

my website: http://tuninghost.ro

keep us posted about this

thanks
circa
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

well.. im also having troubles indexing my pictures on google! they all have reasonably good alt tags! but.. still no indexing. this is a very strange issue. i did a site:critica.us on image search! but no results at all. any ideas?

btw.. ive installed nextgen more than a month ago! there are lots of google bots crawling, but still no image indexing. im not shure if this a nextgen related problem!!
GelbachDesigns
Member
Posted 8 months ago #

First off, I want to say that this is an absolutely amazing plugin. I'm sure I speak for the whole community in saying, "thank you, you're a lifesaver".

Just wanted to report my problem as well, just in case it helps with the solution.

Nextgen back end reports 699 images.
Google is reporting 229, mostly 'random images' as the title (does badly for SEO, as i'm sure you're aware).

Out of those 229, prolly about 30 are useless little .gifs and such from elsewhere in the site.

Here is the sitesearch string if it helps site:gelbachdesigns.com

Edit: Looking at the source generated– looks all good. I don't see a reason google should be behaving this way with the NextGen gallery. Perhaps the problem is somewhere else in the code. Then again perhaps the issue is google (**hides under desk and covers head**).
nirgrantha
Member
Posted 7 months ago #

After having done a bit of detective work on my own, I like to share my findings with you.

Google does not show URLs and images passed my album page . Non of my gallery pages have been indexed (with sitemap and permalinks enabled). Over time however, Google found images from the sidebar widget, 63 of 210. All of which show in Google Images only the widget heading and not the alt or meta information. This is a real SEO downer!

The problem can not be with Google since it indexes other images from my blog within hours.

Also, the galley title tag is not being displayed either, and for better SEO I would like to see a custom h1 heading.

Please also remember that you will have to direct a bit of PR juice to the gallery pages in order to rank at all.

Hope that helps.
anitaharris
Member
Posted 7 months ago #

What is the current status of this issue, Alex? Is this problem still outstanding?. I dont seem to have any of my images indexed either. My nggfunctions.php already has the changes mentioned by alex (thats probably because I have the latest version of nextgen v1.2).

Is it a matter of just waiting until google indexes images, or will i be waiting for ever?

From what i have read activating permalinks has no effect.

Is it just a matter of time, or is nextgen just NOT enabling google to index images in galleries?

I think an update of the status is required here, as there are so many posts to wade through and most are now out of date.

Many thanks
Anita Harris
nirgrantha
Member
Posted 7 months ago #

No one home Anita.

I think this is a make or break issue that needs addressing asap.

waiting...
alexrabe
Member
Posted 7 months ago #

Currently i have no idea , why Google didn't index your images. With V1.2.0 I included the canonical meta tag to avoid duplicate content and Google Webmaster tools didn't show any error message anymore.

So my test page nextgen.boelinger.com are indexed by Google.

If somebody has any advice or idea, I'm happy for a tip
nirgrantha
Member
Posted 7 months ago #

Hi Alex, I can not put too much time into this problem at the moment, so I'll only post what I bump into.

#1 - I just found out that wordpress didn't add any URLs for nextgen gallery to the sitemap. However, each image pops up in my other sitemap but with 4 links per image, 3 dead and 1 pointing to a permalink. I now filter out the dead ones and will keep you posted.

2# - this may not resolve the Google index problem but it's really bad SEO to have the same title tag and heading for the entire album. Better is Title Tag = Album + Gallery + Pictures name (where the album name could be optional)
H1 Heading same
Have a look at the code and you'll understand.
pbal
Member
Posted 7 months ago #

Don't know if this info will be helpful or not, but here goes. I posted my most recent gallery last week, so I don't expect it to be indexed yet, but the 2 previous galleries, posted Jan 14 and Nov 2, HAVE been indexed: site:laurelight.com. The previous 8 galleries don't show up at all. Could it have something to do with upgrade timeing?

For what it's worth, images from one, of maybe a dozen, non-NG posts have been indexed, along with a few random images from the site. I'm hoping the situation improves on its own over the next couple of weeks.
alexrabe
Member
Posted 7 months ago #

I also see that images via widgets are very fast indexed. At all I have no idea where I need to look for...
nirgrantha
Member
Posted 7 months ago #

For what it's worth. Google doesn't index or follow java script and flash.
remotay
Member
Posted 7 months ago #

I'd also like to point out that im having issues with getting my images indexed.

Firstly, My site has A LOT of content on it, Lots of game reviews, and each game review has ~100 UNIQUE images that I took myself of the game. My site has total of 10,000 unique images, and in 3 months or so, only 250 or so have been indexed.

This is my biggest complaint with nextgen gallery, and I'm almost ready to pay someone to fix it. Heck, Alex, you got a $50 donation coming from me as soon as this issue is resolved, or whenever you decide to address it. until then, keep up the awesome work. Your plugin is the BEST plugin there is for wordpress.

I Recommend others who are having the issue to also commit a donation to our friend Alex, even if its not for this particular issue. His plugin ROCKS!
remotay
Member
Posted 7 months ago #

Actually, I only have 95 indexed pictures, i just did the site:domain in the image search. Thats 95 out of 10,000+ unique pictures! [All surrounded by unique content!]
thepark
Member
Posted 6 months ago #

I got images from NextGen gallery indexed buy google-images but they link to the gallery folder and not to the page on the website where the gallery displays. It happens with all the indexed gallery pics ( site:mosh-art.com at google images)

I'm using NextGen+NextGEN-FlashViewer, 6 month old versions

If anyone has an idea why this happens, I'd be happy to know
stencil
Member
Posted 6 months ago #

To clarify this post by Alex re: canonical feature.

The canonical meta tag is meant for pages with vastly similar content that can be reached via different URLs. You specify your preferred URL to help reduced duplicate content.

Here's the issue/bug:

I'm using WP 2.7.1 / NGG 1.2.1 and have set up an Album on a Page with several Galleries and turned ON canonical links via AIO SE.

First access is via page: /gallery/

My galleries are displayed with links to them eg:

/nggallery/page-15/album-1/gallery-2/
/nggallery/page-15/album-1/gallery-7/

The problem is each of those pages is given the same canonical meta tag which is /gallery/. This is not correct as the pages are showing different content and should be indexed as such.

I've only quickly flicked through the plugin code, but it probably relates to /lib/rewrite.php #215 and the call to get_permalink().

...yes, I have noticed that the comments in that file show the rewrite coding is needing some attention to clean-up the URLs to fit a more SEO naming convention.
alexrabe
Member
Posted 6 months ago #

If your remove the canonical tag, then you have the risk that google recognize the code as dublicate content. I added this tag to avoid this.

I agree that it maybe didn't recognize albums & galleries. I'm currently analyse this at my test blog, I've I can see that it lead in the wrong direction, I will remove the code
stencil
Member
Posted 6 months ago #

I think you need to document this a little more - making users aware of the effects the canonical tag could have on Google's index.

Using the default settings, I created 10 Galleries all with completely different images. After viewing each page source I can see that Google was being told to index them all at the same URL my-site.com/gallery/

- not cool :(
cafecroissant
Member
Posted 6 months ago #

Off course I'm running into the same issue for referencing pictures thru google image.
And I have a suggestions regarding the possible cause of the problem :
usually all the htlm pages I remember are formatted with the "title" and the "alt" following the "scr" tag not the invert way as it seems to be in nextgen...
Meaning :
<img src="http://mywebsite.com/blabla.jpg" title="blabla.jpg" alt="blabla description" width="500" height="500">
instead of
<img title="blabla.jpg" alt="blabla description" src="http://mywebsite.com/blabla.jpg" width="500" height="500">

any thoughts ?
stencil
Member
Posted 6 months ago #

The order in which you write image attributes has no affect/makes no difference.
remotay
Member
Posted 5 months ago #

This issue is driving me nuts. I LOVE NExtgen gallery, but NONE of my images are getting indexed! My site has been around for over 4 months now, and ranks on google for A LOT of competitive keywords and has some fair PR, but my images aren't getting indexed.

I have now 13,000 images in Nextgen gallery, all unique images with ALL The file names UNIQUE as well [I manually named every image i took, to accurately display whats in the image itself], yet out of 13k images, 130 are indexed, and this figure has remained constant for the last few months. [I've checked daily]

If anyone has any tips for me, i would certainly like to hear you out.
stencil
Member
Posted 5 months ago #

@remotay - a link to the site in question might help ;)

Have you checked Google bot has actually spidered all these pages?

You also realise that Google won't index everything - just what it feels is useful.
remotay
Member
Posted 5 months ago #

mmohut.com/review/pangya

One example. It's indexed on google already, but none of those images are showing up on google images.
stencil
Member
Posted 5 months ago #

I think I'll leave it as this for just now as this thread is heading towards general SEO, not just 'issues' with NextGEN Gallery...

@remotay - you may want to include the other gallery pages in your site map:

mmohut.com/review/pangya?nggpage=2 / 3 / 4

Have you checked Google bot has actually spidered all these pages?
remotay
Member
Posted 5 months ago #

Stencil, if I added those pages to the sitemap, wouldn't they be seen as plain ol duplicate content?

Plus that doesn't answer why any of the images on the FIRST page aren't indexed either. I have 150 pages just like the one I linked, each with over 20 images on them. If the sitemap was the only issue for the later pages, I should still have 3000 images indexed, but in reality I have 112, and this number is DECREASING, never increasing.