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Search Words for Google?

Odyseus Member
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Hej,
i don´t know the right words for my question...Sorry.

What i want is, that google find some informations about my images in zenphoto. I don´t know how i give zenphoto the information in the right way that google can work with it.
So if some people "google" for example "xyz" that they find the image/album on my site.
In my old used homepage with phpkit i have to give some metatags/word in phpkit which are given to google.

Here are some information out of the sitesourcecode of a friend of me:
<meta name="keywords" content="HDR, HDR Fotografie, Artwave HDR.......

i don´t find some similar in my homepage-sourcecode.

Did i oversee something or am i generally wrong in my wish?

Thanks for help.

Comments

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    `` These meta keywords are basically useless nowadays as Google basically ignores that (search on Google's guidelines itself).

    Although we have a plugin called html_meta_data that can create several of these meta calls and also these keywords based on tags assigned.

    Or you can naturally modify your theme manually as well.

    What actually counts today is content and a correct code with hierachy. Standard Zenphoto themes have hat. Foremost provide content (Text, images) that someone finds useful.

    Search engine optimisation (SEO) is a wide topic that exceeds this forum (at least for me a little). Perform a web search on SEO to learn more.
  • Odyseus Member
    Hej,
    thanks for your explanation.

    I am not so experienced with SEO, content and so on...

    Little question which i can not answer by myself...
    When using a robots.txt - file... (what i do)... with this content:
    Disallow: /zenphoto/albums/
    Disallow: /zenphoto/cache/
    Disallow: /zenphoto/themes/
    Disallow: /zenphoto/zp-core/
    Disallow: /zenphoto/zp-data/
    Disallow: /zenphoto/page/search/
    Disallow: /zenphoto/uploaded/

    is that right, or wrong.. ?
    Do i have to allow the crawlers to read in albums and the other folders?

    Thanks
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Our example robots.txt file is pretty strict and allows no folders to be indexed. You should not allow anything before understanding how Zenphoto works. None of these folders are used as "links" on a Zenphoto site.

    The only ones you could allow are either
    - /zenphoto/albums/ (only if you want your full images uploaded indexed directly - no standard theme uses these directly on its pagse)
    - /zenphoto/cache/ (only if you want your sized images created indexed directly - the image within are the sized images create by Zenphoto from the full images to be displayed on its page).

    All other folders, especially zp-core and zp-data should never be indexed (on properly configured servers they won't actually).
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