Meta robots advanced question

  • Resolved thedetoureffect

    (@thedetoureffect)


    1 year, 4 months ago

    A page I’m creating on my website is basically a photo album archive that’s meant to look like an instagram profile. Many of the photos on this archive page were already used elsewhere throughout my site on blog posts. When that’s the case, instead of uploading a duplicate for the archive page, I am just re-using the image that’s already in my media library. As a result, sometimes the same image can be found in multiple locations on my site.

    I am worried about this archive page ruining my website’s SEO because there’s TONS of images on it, all with varying alt text that doesn’t go together (because this page isn’t about one topic; it’s a photo album/instagram-esque grid spanning multiple years and different unrelated events). Could look like random keyword stuffing/spam. I also wonder if search engines will react badly to the same images being re-used on multiple pages. So, on the archive page I am thinking I should select “no image index” under “meta robots advanced” in the Yoast plugin.

    My question is, if I select “no image index” on this archive page, how does that affect the images on the archive page that are also being used on other pages of my site? I DO want the image to be indexed when it’s on a blog post. I DON’T want the same image re-indexed for the archive page. This setting isn’t going to affect the other locations of the image, right?

    Also – do you think I should select “no” under “allow search engines to show this content”? If the “no image index” does the trick then I will allow search engines to find the archive page, but if it’s not enough and my SEO will still suffer, maybe I need to keep this page completely away from SERPS altogether. I’m not really trying to pull in new traffic with this photo album.

    I’m open to any other advice about how to use Yoast to keep this page from ruining my sitewide SEO.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    1 year, 4 months ago

    Hello @thedetoureffect,

    Thanks for using the Yoast SEO plugin. I’ve addressed your concerns below:

    My question is, if I select “no image index” on this archive page, how does that affect the images on the archive page that are also being used on other pages of my site? 

    No image index means you disallow search engines from crawling images on the specific page or post

    This setting isn’t going to affect the other locations of the image, right?

    I can’t comment on how search enginmes will treat the same image appearing on other pages

    Also – do you think I should select “no” under “allow search engines to show this content”?

    This adds a noindex tag to the page which consequently excludes it from the XML sitemap and thereby preventing search engines from adding it to their index.

    Giving SEO advice, in most cases, requires a deep analysis of your site to provide accurate advice for your specific setup, even for what may seem to be a simple question. Our main advice would be to check for a local SEO company and see if they can help. If you are using a web development agency, you could ask them, as most agencies have at least a basic understanding of SEO as well – the good ones do.

    Thread Starter thedetoureffect

    (@thedetoureffect)

    1 year, 4 months ago

    Hi Maybellyne, thanks for your response. Regarding “I can’t comment on how search engines will treat the same image appearing on other pages” that really gives me pause about moving forward with this project at all, maybe I will just trash the entire page I’ve been working on and give up on the idea. I can’t risk my images not being indexed when they appear on other pages, I get a lot of traffic from Google Images.

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