Photo Gallery marked as spam???
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Hi all,
we recently launched some articles with photo galleries. Our CMS produces a single URL for each photo you click--> www.domain.com/article-url/photogallery/1, www.domain.com/article-url/photogallery/2 and so forth...
We have 6-15 photos in our galleries. Each photo has a caption which contains 1-3 sentences. We do not advertise on our pages, so these gallery pages just contain of the top navigation, sidebar, footer, picture and the caption.
My question: Google is indexing these URLs, do you think that they will be considered spammy, as there is almost no content on these pages? Should we noindex them? Or canonical them to the article URL? Or write more content to each photo and let them be indexed???
Thanx....
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Sometimes galleries are viewed as thin content, but you stated you have captions under each one of the images, consisting of 1-3 sentences each, so I don't think you have anything to worry about.
As an example, one of the sites I work on used to have gallery pages that were flagged as duplicate content in SEOmoz's crawler, because they contained nothing but images and navigation. I added a little bit of text under each image, and they're no longer flagged that way.
Example: http://www.stadriemblems.com/galleries/fire-department-patches.html
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_This is absolutely fine. Just make sure that the alt tags and the descriptions you are using against images are relevant and unique to some extent. And if possible, try to create an image sitemap that will give strong signal to search engines that these pages contain images that are adding value to your website. And of course, there is no need to add noindex tag. _
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