Images not indexed by Google..
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xtuners
Joined: 2010-11-04
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Posted: Thu, 2010-11-04 23:40
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Hello, folks! I am using the new gallery3 for 1 month now. Now I realize, that Search Engines do not index my images. If you do regular Google search: site:xtuners.com/gallery you see that 1700 + pages have been indexed, but if you switch to image search , there are like no images indexed. Can someone help me with this issue? Thanks! |
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I'll contact google right away and find out what's going on.
In the meantime:
http://www.google.com/search?q=images+not+showing+up+in+google+images
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
And no, I'm not really going to contact google, there is nothing we can do.
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no solution .. cool.
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How would we or anyone have a solution for getting your site indexed? It takes TIME for your stuff to show up in search engines. When I searched for your site on google's image search I came up with TONS of images all on other sites that referred to your site.
That's problem #1 for you, the sites where people are talking about your products are more popular than your site.
I also see images for your site when doing a site specific search:
http://images.google.com/images?q=site:xtuners.com
http://images.google.com/images?q=site:xtuners.com/gallery
So you're there.
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you might want to try out the sitemap plugin:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Modules:sitemap
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I agree, something isn't quite right here. I'll follow up with Google and see what I can figure out.
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My gallery images also do not show up in Google's index. Although I accidentally blocked the m parameter in Tools for some time, so it might be related. Time will tell.
However, Googlebot-Image is regularly fetching images as it should.
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empty message :p
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how much did you pay for this gallery ? you are complaining about something that is free and where a lot of people spend a lot of time in to make it what it is now. This not indexing in google is not important for many people so it has not a high priority.
meanwhile: show some respect and gratitude for the people that make this possible. I had to postpone the launch of a site because there wasn't a standard resize module available. Two weeks later it's just there. You need to be patient, or build it yourself.
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o no , you got me wrong. I'm not complaining about anything. The platform is great and easy to use and update. This is why I am here. It is my own problem, I just want to collect some info from the rest of the people here and find a solution, because Google image indexing is everything for me. I will post tomorrow some extra info, which can be a start point for finding a solution, because it may be something easy to fix .. and to get indexed is better than not get indexed ;)
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okay then i misunderstood you maybe. Try the robot module for the gallery and make sure in .htaccess the right directories are allowed/disallowed.
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Ok, I've figured out the problem. It *is* related to the the ?m= param, but it's not because the param exists it's because the value changes too often. I had tied that value to the updated timestamp for the item record, but it really should be tied to the file modification timestamp on disk. I've documented it in https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gallery/ticket/1482 and it's fixed in the 3.0.x branch so you can either:
1) Wait for the 3.0.1 release (no timeframe yet)
2) Get the latest version from the 3.0.x branch from https://github.com/gallery/gallery3/zipball/3.0.x and upgrade to that (safe; it's only got bugfixes in it).
3) Go to the Google webmaster tools and tell it to ignore the ?m= param.
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I told Google to ignore the ?m parameter several days ago and one of my images from my main gallery finally does show on an images search, along with several related to the older G2 install. My mod_rewrite rules are correctly sending the bots where they should go so all I can really do is wait. Google and other bots are still checking out the older G2 links.
My other gallery still shows no images but I suspect that is due to how much I've changed the album structure around on it lately.
Thanks,
Mark H.
Using Gallery 3.0+(git) - gallery.markheadrick.com
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Hello! Maybe some useful info.
So on my page TIME is not factor, because the page is rated as number 1 in google search results. The gallery platform is also linked with a powerful phpBB forum .. so basically google bots craw the site 24/7 . Since last time we talked, there is a progress. I told google to ignore the m param and now 3 days later I have 185 images indexed , which is about 9 % of the gallery content. But there are some other issues. Check the image listing for my gallery3 here:
http://www.google.bg/images?um=1&hl=bg&client=opera&rls=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=site%3Axtuners.com%2Fgallery&btnG=%D0%A2%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
When I random click on these images, I see that in some cases I get redirected to some completely different image or directory? Why is that happening? For example if I click on a thumb ..indexed from /var/thums/.. , I expect to open the same image but in real size ... but no, the image I get is a completely different one? And why is google picking images up from disallowed directories anyway? For example from /var/thumbs/../ ? Was this info useful for any one here? Do your site have similar issues?
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I am starting to see more and more of my new images showing up on Google (around 100 now). It's still a mixture of G3 and G2 links but the G2 ones are slowly going away.
My other gallery now shows 2 images LOL; however, it's not linked to in very many places.
With respect to the /var/thumbs/ Google might have cached them when it first visited your site since the robots.txt file defaults to "Disallow: /var/thumbs/" and not "Disallow: /gallery/var/thumbs/" for your case (but maybe you changed it before setting your Gallery up, I just don't know).
This explains how to get something removed from Google in its Webmaster tools: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=59819&hl=en
Mark H.
Using Gallery 3.0+(git) - gallery.markheadrick.com
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After the 3.0.x change, images on my site are showing up in the Google index:
http://www.google.com/images?q=site:menalto.com/photos&biw=1407&bih=770
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