Tuesday, 26 December 2006

Optimising the automated gallery - filenames, alt attributes and title attributes

The Google algorithm seeks out and destroys automated content in its sleep. Its a fact. This is simply because real content is generally useful content.

However, what about xoog where the pictures ARE real content. Because of the nature that the pictures are put online, to Google it looks as if they have simply been automatically placed on the internet. Google will not like this and hence not index all of my images.

Thousands of images are put on xoog every month. It isn't reasonable to write a description for every single one of these pictures. this description can be placed in the title and attribute tags of an image. This causes a problem.

I have figured a potential workaround to this problem, which could potentially be done on every gallery.

Problem: Automation image creation makes it hard to distinguish every image, which results in Google not being able to tell the difference between each image, and also not assigning any keywords to the image.

Resolution: Create a database with keywords related to a topic. My tables are going to be structured in a way that keywords will be assigned 'groups'. This will allow future versatility and allow me to actually relate my images to the appropriate keywords. the groups will be assigned names such as '42nd Street' or 'Mtwo'... After all, I don't want to deceive Google, just help it along.

When the images are being pulled from the file server, and added to the database, the words will be pulled from an the appropriate table. The image will be optimised based on these keywords. For example if the keywords are "42nd street night club manchester"...

filename:
42street_0123.jpeg -> 42street_0123-42nd-street-night-club-manchester.jpeg

alt/title attributes:
"42nd street night club manchester"

the keywords will be a lot more random then that, as they will be randomly taken from the database, and also a random number of keywords will be taken for more combinations.

why will this help?
If each group has 50 key words, and between 5 and 10 words are generated on every image. there are hundreds of thousands of possible keyword results. Every single image in the gallery will be unique. Google Like.

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