Image Settings

Manage display characteristics and content associated with images. Information managed here is displayed alongside images as Image Info.

Visitors view content on Gallery Pages when the Image Info button is activated via the Control Bar or when visitors scroll down from images.

To edit Image Settings:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Images menu.
3. Under the Your Folder menu heading, choose the preferred folder.
4. Select the appropriate images. Images can be selected individually or in groups using CTRL or SHIFT keys.
5. Click the Image Settings button.
6. Complete all required fields.
7. Click the Save Changes button.

Original Filename

The original filename for the selected image. Original filenames cannot be modified in Good Gallery.

New Filename

The new filename for the selected image. New filenames are modified by changing the image Title.

Dimensions

The original pixel dimensions of the selected image.

• Horizontal images should be at least 3000 pixels wide
• Vertical images should be at least 2000 pixels tall

See the Image Dimensions section for additional sizing recommendations.

File Size

The original file size of the selected image. See the File Size section for additional file size recommendations.

Title

Titles are labels displayed in search results, bookmarks, browser tabs, and in shared content. The image Title content also populates image description fields in the source HTML (aka alt text, alt tags, alt attributes, alt descriptions). These fields were originally used by screen reading software to provide image descriptions. Today, text found in those descriptions is a search engine ranking factor.

Note: Modifications to information in the Title field override information in the Permanent Link field. Completing the Image Settings fields in the order they are presented is recommended to ensure optimal efficiency in data entry.

Titles are one of the most important content areas for SEO. Good titles are clear, helpful, accurate, specific, and concise. The Title field should include well-researched keywords. Titles should also be unique for each page.

Best practices for titles:

• Include keywords as the first words in titles to improve click-through rates
• Early keyword position in titles may also be a slight SEO ranking factor
• Limit Titles to fewer than 55 characters to accommodate search result snippet limitations
• Title length is not a direct SEO ranking factor, but truncated Titles may negatively affect click-through rates

When the image Title is blank, then the Site Options Site Title setting value is displayed as the image Title when present. This may result in duplicate title warnings in some third-party testing software.

To change the image Title:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Images menu.
3. Under the Your Folder menu heading, choose the preferred folder.
4. Select the appropriate images.
5. Click the Image Settings button.
6. Modify the Title field.
7. Click the Save Changes button.

Permanent Link

The Permanent Link field indicates the image page URL. The full URL path for each image page must be unique.

When the image is present in only one folder and the Domain Name is defined in Site Options, then the entire URL is displayed in the Preview area:

https://www.example.com/portfolio/example-portrait

If the image is present in more than one Folder, present in no Folders, or if the Domain Name is not defined in Site Options, then only the relative path is displayed:

/example-portrait

Key behaviors:

• Modifications to information in the Title field override information in the Permanent Link field
• Spaces and special characters entered in the Title field are automatically converted to hyphens
• Uppercase characters are automatically converted to lowercase
• Stop words (an, and, also, around, at, is, on, the, which, etc.) are automatically removed
• The Permanent Link field can be manually edited and refined
• Spaces, uppercase characters, and underscores are not allowed

Note: When the Permanent Link field is changed, Good Gallery automatically creates a 301 Redirect record for the old URL.

Studies show that shorter URLs have higher click-through rates. The Permanent Link field includes a character counter that recommends fewer than 100 characters.

Meta Description

Meta Descriptions summarize page content. Content entered in this field is used to suggest your preferred page description to search engines and social networks.

Although text entered in the Meta Description field may appear in search engine snippets, search engines may ignore the text you provide and instead generate a page description based on your page content.

Good Gallery uses text in the Meta Description field to populate descriptions in page schema and details in the sitemap.xml file. Content found in those areas may be direct SEO ranking factors.

Best practices for meta descriptions:

• Content should be informative, compelling, and relevant
• Limit to fewer than 155 characters for desktop search engines
• Limit to fewer than 120 characters for mobile search engines
• Provide a concise summary without superfluous copy

Folders

The Folders setting indicates the Folders where the image appears. Clicking on a Folder's close icon (x) removes the image from that Folder.

Before Image

The Before Image setting indicates if the image should have before and after (aka before/after) functional characteristics.

When the Before Image option is activated, choose the before image that you want associated with the selected image. The selected image is then automatically designated the after image.

Note: For best results, aspect ratios for Before Image selections should exactly match the original image aspect ratio.

The before/after controls appear on Gallery Page images and images inserted in all Content areas.

To change the Before Image setting:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Images menu.
3. Under the Your Folder menu heading, choose the preferred folder.
4. Select the appropriate images.
5. Click the Image Settings button.
6. Review the Before Image segmented control options.
7. Choose yes.
8. Click the Choose Image button.
9. Select the appropriate image.
10. Click the Save Changes button.

Allow Search Engine Indexing

The Allow Search Engine Indexing setting indicates if the image and image content should be visible to search engines.

• default -- The rule defined in Search Engines Index Gallery Images under Gallery Pages settings applies
• yes -- The page can be indexed by all search engines
• no -- Search engines are presented with an HTML directive that discourages them from indexing the image
• dynamic -- Search engines are discouraged from indexing the image when both the Title and Content are blank

Note: Although major search engines will follow the noindex directive, some search engines and proprietary tools may ignore this instruction. This setting does not guarantee that the image will not be indexed.

To change indexing for individual images:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Images menu.
3. Under the Your Folder menu heading, choose the preferred folder.
4. Select the appropriate images.
5. Click the Image Settings button.
6. Modify the Allow Image Indexing segmented control field.
7. Choose yes, no, dynamic, or default.
8. Click the Save Changes button.

To change indexing for all images:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Site menu.
3. Under the Your Settings heading, choose Site Options.
4. Edit the Search Engines Index Gallery Images setting.
5. Choose yes, no, or dynamic.
6. Click the Save Changes button.

Location

Indicate the address associated with the image. The full street address is preferred. City and state information are acceptable alternatives.

Location details are displayed on Image Pages. The geographic location is also directly linked to Google Maps. This feature may provide search engines with a local search ranking indicator.

To add Location information:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Images menu.
3. Under the Your Folder menu heading, choose the preferred folder.
4. Select the appropriate images.
5. Click the Image Settings button.
6. Modify the Location field.
7. Click the Save Changes button.

Tags

Link images using tags. Tags are words or phrases that connect related images. Tags applied to images are displayed as links in Image Info areas. Those links connect to thumbnail collections of all similarly tagged images.

For more information, see the Image Tags section.

To add Image Tag information:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Images menu.
3. Under the Your Folder menu heading, choose the preferred folder.
4. Select the appropriate images.
5. Click the Image Settings button.
6. Modify the Tags field.
7. Click the Save Changes button.

Content

Content refers to text, headings, tables, images, links, embedded videos, and embedded code that appears in website content areas.

For additional information about managing content, refer to the Text Editor section. See the SEO section for additional information about creating content for search engines.

To add image Content information:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Images menu.
3. Under the Your Folder menu heading, choose the preferred folder.
4. Select the appropriate images.
5. Click the Image Settings button.
6. Modify the Content field.
7. Click the Save Changes button.