On-Page Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

[dime]

Maybe here should be reported some things that could make more SEO friendly pages.

So here are first, which were already reported  here.

Header — When looking collection or album, there is h1 header on top which always show gallery name (if it is entered in admin area; if not, it is empty). There should exist h2 tag with name of collection/album because it adds great value for SE. This should be like h2 when looking single picture page — above picture there is heading h2#picture caption.

Album descriptions — Album description only appears on collection's list and not on single album page. It should be optional where to appear. For me, it's much worth to appear only on album pages. It would have much worth to visitor and for SE too. For SE because albums should be major landing pages from SE, and it adds content that is related to album. Also, someone can search for something and get on collection page, but find difficult to find this text if collection has a lot of albums.

Links to album/collection from parrent level — In Lucid theme when viewing collection, there is no link on album name which appear left of album's thumbnail, like in Air theme. It should be fixed.

[kimparsell]

Summary of issues/fixes requested (from this ticket and linked forum thread):

• Need h2 tags for collection/album names.
  
• Show album descriptions on single album page.
  
• Links to album/collection from parent level — In Lucid theme when viewing collection, there is no link on album name which appear left of album's thumbnail, like in Air theme.
  
• Titles: Would like more control how page titles appear in browser bar.
  
• Meta tags: Would like to have dynamic meta tags for keywords and descriptions.
  
• Alt tag: Need alt tags for thumbnails and large images.
  

[kimparsell]

Per  changeset 557, the following issues have been addressed:

• Links to album/collection from parent level — In Lucid theme when viewing collection, there is no link on album name which appear left of album's thumbnail, like in Air theme.
  

-- FIXED

• Meta tags: Would like to have dynamic meta tags for keywords and descriptions.
  

-- New function added to create meta tags dynamically which will pull in collection/album titles and descriptions as well as single image captions and descriptions.

• Alt tag: Need alt tags for thumbnails and large images.
  

-- FIXED

[kimparsell]

Of the original list of fixes requested, only these remain to be implemented:

• Need h2 tags for collection/album names.
  
• Show album descriptions on single album page.
  
• Titles: Would like more control how page titles appear in browser bar.

The first two items are theme-related and can be accomplished by the theme author including the appropriate functions in the theme files (personal preference), so I would have to tag those as "wontfix".

The third item (title control) - I'm not sure what level of control the OP really wanted. The title bar in the latest SVN version currently shows:

Gallery title: Collection name | Album name | Picture caption or filename (if no caption)

Is that enough to consider the third item as fixed or not?

[kimparsell]

Was thinking about this today, and would like to suggest finding a way to allow end-users to override the core title control with a custom function in the theme_functions.php file in each them, giving the individual user the opportunity to set their titles up as they want them (SEO-optimized) without having to alter the core codebase. Thoughts on this?

[kimparsell]

The discussion and development around overriding the core title functionality is being handled in  Ticket 170 now. All other items in this ticket have been addressed, so I am considering this ticket resolved and closing it.