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.

Some kind of css conflict probably...
Please provide us with a url to your site to help you.

Try to erase the last element from line 28 template.css (the one I put a line on it).

li.sig-block a.sig-link img.sig-image, li.sig-block a.sig-link:hover img.sig-image {
background-position:50% 50%;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
border:medium none;
display:block;
height:100%;
margin:0;
padding:0;
width:100%;
}

If this doesn't work please let me know.

Just did that and it appears nothing has changed and the same problem exists. I am assuming the template file you were speaking of was under the directory: .../mambots/content/jw_sigpro/templates/default/template.css.  I am currently using the "Default" template for the image galleries.


The only way I can fix it is to remove the changes suggested above to the code to jw_sigpro.php but then it would not be SEO friendly.

Still stuck here any additional help would be greatly appreciated since I am still getting a double text line.  The only way to correct this is to remove the change suggested to become more SEO friendly.

How much of the information in this thread is still relevant?

I'm VERY interested in SEO friendly images in conjunction with my SIG pro galleries.

I have the most recent (I think) copy of the extension. Any seo tips used for simple image pro galleries is greatly appreciated. 

If you can tell me the absolute best possible way to treat my photos. Earlier today I finally learned to name the photo like this: this-is-my-relevant-title.jpg

All lowercase and hyphen between words. Does that look good? If so, what next...as in what do I do on the sig pro side, I'm familiar with the labels.txt and adding info there. Does this help, what's the best method in the label.txt file to get the best seo for my images?

Do the three areas in the label.txt cover my ultimate seo solution? What about the "click to open image" (alt txt?)? Should this be modified like suggested by the OP?

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

{LEFT HTML COMMENT}<img class="sig-image" src="'.$mosConfig_live_site.'/plugins/content/'.$plg_name.'/sigpro.transparent.gif" alt="'.JText::_('JWSP_FE_IMGTITLE').'" title="'.JText::_('JWSP_FE_IMGTITLE').'" style="width:'.$gal_width.'px;height:'.$gal_height.'px;background-image:url({THUMB IMAGE FILEPATH});" />{RIGHT HTML COMMENT}';

replace it with the following:

{LEFT HTML COMMENT}<img class="sig-image" src="'.$mosConfig_live_site.'/plugins/content/'.$plg_name.'/sigpro.transparent.gif" alt="{CAPTION TITLE}" title="{CAPTION TITLE}" style="width:'.$gal_width.'px;height:'.$gal_height.'px;background-image:url({THUMB IMAGE FILEPATH});" />{RIGHT HTML COMMENT}';

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

I see this is about a two year old post, I tried doing this and it shuts down your whole site.

I love sig pro but wish it were easier on the image seo, and ability to easily create captions, alt=, etc.

Hi,

the code in the current SIG PRO Version can be found in the templates. I've just altered the classic.php template file to use the long text for the alt and title tag. As the long code would show HTML Tags I've striped them from the string. The result looks like this:

alt tag = "long text: image name.file_extention" (e.g. "This is my alt tag text: picturename.jpg")
title Tag = "long text -> info text" (e.g. "This is my title text -> Click here to open")

Code Line 25 must be amended as per follows:
Hope this helps!

For a working example please visit:
fur-niture.net/de/lgallery.html

Best regards,
Marcel