This talk was given at Joomla World Conference, 2012 in San Jose, CA. Most image galleries are not indexible. This system is the best one I have been able to patch together for my right-brained artist and freelance clients, to offer them a search-friendly, update-friendly image gallery.

1. Dead on the Web?™
Search-Friendly Image Galleries
Hope Kiah
www.santafewebdesign.net

2. Just Briefly About Me
I am a recovering
Search-deadly Web Designer

3. If
you
build
it...

4. SEARCH-DEADLY
http://demo.artetics.com/index.php?option=com_artgallery&galleryid=1

5. SEARCH-FRIENDLY
www.susanschristmasshop.com

6. SEARCH FRIENDLY

7. SEARCH-FRIENDLY

8. UPDATE-FRIENDLY
NO
HTML

9. WHAT WILL HAPPEN

10. WHAT YOU NEED
Joomla 2.5+ site
Phoca Gallery Component
Xmap Component
Phoca Gallery Xmap Plugin...?
Google Webmaster Tools account

11. PHOCA GALLERY

12. XMAP

13. PHOCA GALLERY XMAP PLUGIN

14. PHOCA GALLERY XMAP PLUGIN

15. PHOCA: ENABLE FRONT-END UPLOADING

16. PHOCA: ENABLE FRONT-END UPLOADING

17. PHOCA: ENABLE “NO POPUP”

18. XMAP XML URL

19. GOOGLE WEBMASTER TOOLS

20. HACK TO ENABLE PAYPAL BUTTONS
This XML hack prevents Phoca Gallery from stripping code from a shopping cart
button form tag
In this xml file:
administratorcomponentscom_phocagallerymodelsformsphocagalleryimg.xml
Change from:
<field name="description" type="editor" buttons="true" hide="pagebreak,readmore"
class="inputbox" label="COM_PHOCAGALLERY_FIELD_DESCRIPTION_LABEL"
filter="safehtml" description="COM_PHOCAGALLERY_FIELD_DESCRIPTION_DESC" />
To:
<field name="description" type="editor" buttons="true" hide="pagebreak,readmore"
class="inputbox" label="COM_PHOCAGALLERY_FIELD_DESCRIPTION_LABEL"
filter="raw" description="COM_PHOCAGALLERY_FIELD_DESCRIPTION_DESC" />
IF you want html in the category items, go to the Phoca Gallery Component
options, find Display Image Description in Box (Category View Settings - List of
images) and change to "Yes (HTML)"

21. WHAT NOT TO DO
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/seo-errors-ecommerce-websites/

22. THANK YOU
-Hope Kiah
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