SEO & Visibility Settings

These Page Settings control how your pages interact with search engines and how they are presented to visitors.

Allow Indexing

The Allow Indexing setting indicates if page content should be visible to search engines.

When the option is set to no, search engines are presented with an HTML directive that discourages them from indexing page content:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />

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

When the Allow Indexing option is set to no for a Gallery Page, the Allow Image Indexing option is simultaneously set to no.

Available for: Gallery Page, Menu: Subpage Parent, Text Page, Video Page, and Visual Menu Page.

To change the Allow Indexing setting:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Pages menu.
3. Choose the appropriate page.
4. Review the Allow Indexing segmented control options.
5. Choose yes or no.
6. Click the Save Changes button.

Allow Image Indexing

The Allow Image Indexing setting indicates if images and image content within the Gallery Page should be visible to search engines.

Available for: Gallery Page.

To change the Allow Image Indexing setting:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Pages menu.
3. Choose the appropriate page.
4. Review the Allow Image Indexing segmented control options.
5. Choose default, yes, no, or dynamic.
6. Click the Save Changes button.

Options

• Default -- The rule defined in "Search Engines Index Gallery Images" under Gallery Pages settings applies. The default setting for Allow Image Indexing is yes for new Good Gallery sites.
• Yes -- The page can be indexed by all search engines.
• No -- Search engines are presented with an HTML directive that discourages them from indexing images and image content.
• Dynamic -- Search engines are discouraged from indexing images and image content when both the image Title and image Content are blank. If you believe that images without accompanying content are viewed as thin content by search engines, choose the dynamic option.

Visibility

The Visibility setting indicates how pages are presented to visitors.

Available for: Gallery Page, Menu: URL Link, Menu: Subpage Parent, Text Page, Video Page, and Visual Menu Page.

To change the Visibility setting:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Pages menu.
3. Choose the appropriate page.
4. Review the Visibility segmented control options.
5. Choose public, private, or hidden.
6. Click the Save Changes button.

Public

When the option is set to Public, the page is displayed in the website menu and visitors may access the page.

Private

When the option is set to Private, visitors may access the page, but the page is not displayed in the website menu. Visitors can still view the page when it is linked or when you share the URL.

The Private setting has no effect on SEO if the page has inbound links from other pages or websites.

Note: Except when a Home menu link is preferred, the Home page is typically set to Private.

Hidden

When the option is set to Hidden, the page cannot be viewed by anyone except the site administrator through the Text Editor. The Hidden setting means that the page is not visible to search engines.

Image Folder

The Image Folder setting indicates the image folder that should be displayed when visitors access the page.

Retain the default option Add New Folder and a new image folder is created automatically after saving your Page Settings. Alternatively, select an existing folder from the dropdown list to display an existing image collection.

Available for: Gallery Page.

To change the Image Folder setting:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Pages menu.
3. Choose the appropriate page.
4. Choose a folder from the Image Folder dropdown list.
5. Click the Save Changes button.

Previous Page

The Previous Page setting indicates that a different page should be displayed when a visitor navigates left from the first image in the gallery.

This setting is commonly used to connect two Gallery Pages. It can also connect Gallery Pages to Visual Menu Pages, Text Pages, Video Pages, Subpage Parent pages, and URL Link pages.

Available for: Gallery Page.

To change the Previous Page setting:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Pages menu.
3. Choose the appropriate page.
4. Choose a page from the Previous Page dropdown list.
5. Click the Save Changes button.

Next Page

The Next Page setting indicates that a different page should be displayed when a visitor navigates right from the last image in the gallery.

This setting is commonly used to connect two Gallery Pages. It can also connect Gallery Pages to Visual Menu Pages, Text Pages, Video Pages, Subpage Parent pages, and URL Link pages.

Available for: Gallery Page.

To change the Next Page setting:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Hover your cursor over the Pages menu.
3. Choose the appropriate page.
4. Choose a page from the Next Page dropdown list.
5. Click the Save Changes button.

Example: Connect Full-Size Images to Thumbnails

Follow these steps to display full-size images that connect to thumbnail images:

1. Sign in to your Good Gallery administrator account.
2. Configure your origin Gallery Page (Page 1):
   • Navigate to the page (either Home page or a new Gallery Page).
   • Adjust required Page Settings.
   • Set Display as Thumbnails to no.
   • Click the Save Changes button.
3. Configure your destination Gallery Page (Page 2):
   • Under the Add New Page menu heading, choose Gallery Page.
   • Adjust required Page Settings.
   • Set Display as Thumbnails to yes.
   • Click the Save Changes button.
4. Edit your origin Gallery Page (Page 1):
   • Choose the destination Gallery Page from the Previous Page or Next Page dropdown list (Page 2).
   • Click the Save Changes button.

When correctly configured, if a visitor navigates from the last (or first) image in the full-size image Gallery Page (Page 1), the thumbnail grid Gallery Page is displayed (Page 2).