As I understand it, these are the things that Google wants for indexing images courtesy of foliovision.com/2008/03/26/seo-google-images/#ixzz0SQtqp8K2 - I've been researching image SEO and this is a good list, clearly laid out:

Here's what a properly formatted image should look like:

<img src="http://foliovision.com/images/2007/08/zen-fanless-power-supply-400.jpg" 
alt="Zen Fanless Power Supply" width="400" height="340" />

For bonus points link that image to a larger version of the same properly labelled image:

<a href="http://foliovision.com/images/2007/08/zen-fanless-power-supply-big.jpg"
rel="lightbox"><img src="http://foliovision.com/images/2007/08/zen-fanless-power-
supply-400.jpg" alt="Zen Fanless Power Supply" /></a>

For extra bonus points put that image in a h5 tag with a proper caption, close to if not identical to the alt tag:

<h5><a href="http://foliovision.com/images/2007/08/zen-fanless-power-supply-
big.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img src="http://foliovision.com/images/2007/08/zen-fanless-power-
supply-400.jpg" alt="Zen Fanless Power Supply" /></a>
Fortron PFC ZEN fanless power 
supply</h5>

Here's what I want to know:

How much of this can be easily done with SIG Pro?

The title and description are important for key word searches, the sizes are important because Google allows filtering on image size, and the header tag is important because of the way that Google uses the header tags to establish the relative importance of content being indexed.

Any suggestions about how to do this would be most gratefully appreciated!

Thanks,

Geoff

I'm afraid that in order to achive this you will have to modify the plugin.

Does this mean, we cannot update the alt tags or title tags for the images displayed? By default it shows "JWSP_FE_IMGTITLE" for every image which really shouldn't be the case both presentation and SEO wise.

Could you please guide me if at all, how to change the alt and title tags for the galleries.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Do you use the option with captions (labels.txt file)?
If yes, this "modification" should be easier than using the other 2 options.

I did use the caption option and set the title and description via the label.txt file, however it only sets the title of the text and doesn't set the title of the actual image, which seems to be a generic one(JWSP_FE_IMGTITLE). Also I couldn't find any option to set the alt tag, kindly advise asap.

Check this link to see what I'm talking about www.atch44.com/index.php/folio


Cheers

You should go to the file jw_sigpro.php and on line 172 there is

replace it with the following:

As you can see you just replace the JText with the caption title given from the file labels.txt for each photo.

Sorry for the late reply but thanks for the tip, it worked like a charm. I would also like to ask you one more question, on the same link provided earlier (atch44.com/index.php/folio) when viewed in Mozilla it shows correctly, however if it's opened in IE the thumbnails don't line up correctly creating a white streak for each thumbnail.

Kindly advise why it is happening, if there is something I need to tweak in the code or settings.
Appreciated!

Please read the following topics:

forum.joomlaworks.net/index.php?topic=8411.0
forum.joomlaworks.net/index.php?topic=8037.0
forum.joomlaworks.net/index.php?topic=8446.0

All sorted, thanks for the prompt response.

I just made the change in code as suggested by Yiota to my jw_sigpro.php file and now I have a double caption label placed on my thumbnails. I am not sure how to remove the one located at the top of the thumbnail that appeared with the change in code.  Here is a screen shot of the problem which was taken in Firefox. It also appears in IE and adds an "X" Icon before the caption.



Any help would be greatly appreciated.