SEO Effect of inserting No indexed Contents in normal Pages (Nextgen Gallery)

[TristanAventure]

Hello Dear Community,

I'm running a photography website and have a question about the indexability of "No indexed Content" inserted on indexable pages.

Background : I read everywhere that best practice is to "no index" all useless pages with few content, what I did with Yoast plugin : I no indexed all my nextgen galleries and "ngg_tags" since they create single pages for every photo, tags or slideshow. I did the same for all my porfolio-posts, price lists, testimonials and so on... Nevertheless, I inserted these galleries and portfolios on SEO optimized page for my target keywords. + Nextgen plugin automatically adds these images in the page sitemap. My idea is to have only my Seo optimized page showing in Google and not the others.

Problem: I've been checking the results in Google Search Console, filtering by images : I discovered that most of the images featured in these Masonry galleries are not showing in google, and actually almost all the images indexed are the Wordpress from media gallery. I double checked with Screaming Frog, and the software doesn"t see images on these pages.

My question is: Is the low indexablilty of these contents are related to the No indexation of the original contents ??? Does somebody has experienced the same issue that these contents doesn't show on Google ?

in advance many thanks for your help

[TristanAventure]

Thanks the ressources and advices Vijay

Yes you right, testing is the best way to improve.

Best regards

[Nigel_Carr]

Hi Tristan

Check that the images are in the site-map. If they are and are not being indexed then the problem lies elsewhere.

Do all the images have alt text tags? If they don't then Google won't know what they are to index them. Do to Media>Select an image and check the alternative text.

Also, check that Yoast is forwarding attachments back to media. There was a big problem a couple of months ago where a Yoast update started indexing attachments. This box needs to be checked.

Regards Nigel

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[Vijay-Gaur]

Hi There,

As per Yoast articles, the noindex is default setting for Image posts and it doesn't prevent them from indexing individually as Images.

https://kb.yoast.com/kb/images-in-the-xml-sitemap

https://yoast.com/ask-yoast-media-noindex-yoast-seo/

However, I would recommend testing it yourself for a couple of galleries by removing noindex from them and then derive a conclusion.

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further queries.

Best Regards,

Vijay