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#1 2015-02-17 22:26:58

DroneVU Studios
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2015-02-17
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None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

Hello,

  I am trying to figure out why none of the images in my Piwigo gallery are being indexed by Google Images. Within Google's Webmaster tools it typically shows I have submitted over 1,000 images but zero were indexed.

   I have named the files something descriptive but filenames have many limitations such as length and syntax. I think the problem is that the alt tags for the pictures only contain the file names.

   I would like to be able to put a complete description of each picture in the ALT tags to improve my Google Index chances, is this possible? Everything I have read states that the text in the TITLE tag is not used by Google so it would be great if the Description field within the Piwigo UI went to the picture's ALT tag vs the TITLE tag. This would allow me to better customize what goes in the ALT tag for the img.
 
     It would be even better if there were an additional option within Piwigo to let the user manually type in the text that will go in the ALT tag if they so choose.

   I have already installed the sitemap Piwigo plugin, submitted sitemaps multiple times, and waited for weeks.


Piwigo version: 2.7.2
Piwigo URL: http://dronevustudios.com/gallery

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#2 2015-02-17 23:32:05

flop25
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2006-07-06
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

Hello
never uploaded a sitemap or tweaked anything but my gallery is indexed quite well, as I often answer on that forum
piwigo let you change everything so it's up to you get the atl/title/metadata you think are the best


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#3 2015-02-19 00:27:58

DroneVU Studios
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2015-02-17
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

Ok thanks, I will try adding more descriptive text around each image and tags to each image, I heavily customized my theme, possibly now there is not enough supporting text for Google to index the images.

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#4 2015-02-23 14:11:19

alexpreyer
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2009-11-27
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

I have been using Piwigo for serveral years now.
My images are with descriptions, titles and alt tags. But when I look in Google I find a lot of my gallery links in the normal index. But in the pictures area of Google none of my pictures are indexed.
I don't know why, but thats a problem for me.
Could it be a wrong setting or a problem with the template? Or because the picture path is very cryptical, for example?
http://www.preyer.net/galerie/upload/20 … 998473.jpg

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#5 2015-02-23 14:56:31

flop25
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2006-07-06
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

google index webpages not files, and for pictures the textual content is very important
in your case alex that's weird because the only pics on google photo are from the webcam: type site:http://www.preyer.net/
even the pictures from the blog are not there, so that's not specific to Piwigo but more probably with the ranking and the number of visit of your whole website


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#6 2015-02-23 15:24:46

alexpreyer
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

The issue from the blog was a bad mistake from me, but now, with my new website its corrected.
The mistake was that I blocked the images directory of my Joomla installation in the robots.txt. Don't ask why.

But for piwigo all is correct. No blocks in the robots.txt or anywhere I looked. But the only pictures from me in the Google index are from foreign sites (Panaramio, fotocommunity, and so on).

I deleted the sitemap created with RV Sitemaps and will see what happens.
For the moment I'm clueless.

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#7 2015-02-24 16:23:44

alexpreyer
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

Sorry, I have to correct these post:

The strange thing is, the image name does appear in a wrong way in the URL.

example:
http://www.preyer.net/galerie/picture/N … ory/baeume

where: "Naechtliche-Ahornallee-Herbst" is the image file name. Could this be a problem for Google?

Last edited by alexpreyer (2015-02-24 16:28:01)

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#8 2015-02-24 16:38:07

mistic100
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2008-09-27
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

what is wrong exactly ?

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#9 2015-02-24 17:58:03

alexpreyer
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

mistic100 wrote:

what is wrong exactly ?

I'm looking for the reason why the pictures from my gallery don't appear in the Google picture index.
The gallery have been online for a long time now.

http://www.preyer.net/galerie

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#10 2015-02-24 22:35:11

mistic100
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

..... I understood your main problem !

I am talking about your remark toward the filename

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#11 2015-02-25 06:33:50

alexpreyer
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

mistic100 wrote:

..... I understood your main problem !

I am talking about your remark toward the filename

Ok, sorry.

It was only one of my guesswork if the url could confuse Google. But meanwhile I think thats no problem.

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#12 2015-02-25 09:20:15

alexpreyer
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

Ok, now I know where the problem is, but I don't know why it is so.

For example, when you look in the sourcecode of the site:

http://www.preyer.net/galerie/picture/R … 6-arnsberg

You'll find (line68):

    <img src="http://www.preyer.net/AlexPreyer.Logo.png" hspace="20" alt="Alex Preyer Logo"></p>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Averia+Sans+Libre' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<script src="http://www.blog.preyer.net/wp-content/plugins/advanced-iframe/js/ai_external.js"></script>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

Here I'm not sure if it is only for the Logo.png or the whole site. But I tested the gallery with Sistrix and get many and many nofollow errors.

Any idea where I can set this to follow?

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#13 2015-02-25 10:06:34

flop25
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2006-07-06
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

<img src="http://www.preyer.net/AlexPreyer.Logo.png" hspace="20" alt="Alex Preyer Logo"></p> should not be in the head and is certainly not produce by Piwigo standard
I suspect you put that using the plugin about Head


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#14 2015-03-21 08:14:40

alexpreyer
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

I tried around a lot the last days and weeks to see how to get Google indexing my gallery, but no success.
That's a really big problem for me when none of my pictures from the gallery are in the Google picture index.
One of my tries was to set up a new small gallery without sitemap and not to much plugins:

http://fotogalerie2.preyer.net

Many of the gallery pages are indexed, but not in the picture index of Google. Only my logo and a few social media logos are in the index. Tried during the time with sitemap and without. Tried a sitemap with pictures in and a normal one. But no success at all.

I don't know if anybody is here who can help my. I know, Google is a own universe. But maybe someone here had the same issues and found a solution.
I really like piwigo and have been using it for many years. The support, the plugins and themes are so great and I don't want to change the system.

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#15 2015-03-21 21:20:37

cally6008
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2015-03-03
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Re: None of my Piwigo images are being indexed by Google

Google has the answers -
https://www.google.co.uk/search?site=&a … nYn-I1K7PY

And - https://support.google.com/websearch/an … 8?hl=en-GB

Very useful - http://www.tofurious.com/photographers- … on-google/


You can't expect miracles to happen overnight or within a few weeks.

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