What's the correct SEO for a Gallery?
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Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone was an expert on galleries and using canonical URL's?
URL: http://www.tecsew.com/gallery
In short I'm doing SEO for a site and it has a large gallery (3000+ images) where each specific image has it's own page and each category (there's 200+) also has its own page.
Now, what I'm thinking is that this should be reduced and asking Google to index/rank each page is wrong (I also think this because the quality of the pages are relatively low i.e little text & content etc)
Therefore, what should be suggested/done to the gallery? Should just the main gallery categories get indexed (i.e http://www.tecsew.com/3d-cad-showcase)? Or should I continue to allow Google to trawl through all of it? Or should canonical URL's be used?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best Wishes,
Charlie S
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If somebody gave that site to me I would go back to basics.
I think that the category and product titles have not been planned with keywords in mind. I would talk to the business owner and determine what keywords he needs to be visible for in the search results. Then a detailed plan of systematic categories and product types would be developed and the goal would be to fill all of them.
Then I would make no more than one page for each product type. That page would have several photos (sometimes a lot of photos) and each photo would have a generous description. I would tell the business owner that I need those descriptions. If he is not willing to write them I would ask him if he wants to be competitive or if he wants to fart around. If he wants to be competitive and bring in long-tail traffic then he better get writing and do a good job of it.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words so the owner of this business should have no trouble describing the product.
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