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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Symbiostock => Symbiostock - SEO & Marketing => Topic started by: Leo Blanchette on June 19, 2013, 04:44
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See the product page here:
http://www.symbiostock.com/products-page/upgrades-and-plugins/symbiostock-image-sitemap/
This gives you a new option in the ladybug menu :D
This gives you very useful sitemap, which notifies Google of your image previews, their license, title, and content. The image sitemap will help images to rank better. Usually Google must rank an image based on what it sees in the page - which can vary based on the page's content and how the webmaster lays it out. This however takes away that guessing game, and serves the info in a perfectly machine-understood form.
Here is a sampling (for those who are curious) how the info is given to Google:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">
<url>
<loc>http://localhost/symbiostock/image/glossy-blue-robot-presenting-idea/</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://localhost/symbiostock/wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content/4185-glossy-blue-robot-presenting-idea.jpg</image:loc>
<image:title><![CDATA[Glossy Blue Robot Presenting Idea]]></image:title>
<image:caption><![CDATA[A bright white and blue robot presenting an idea in an attractive manner.]]></image:caption>
<image:license>http://localhost/symbiostock/end-user-license-agreement/</image:license>
</image:image>
</url>
Its perfectly valid and recognized, as its a schema developed by Google.
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Thanks purchased. :)
Is the license per user or per site? As I'm thinking about to deploy a second site with different more niche content once I have finished my universal Symbiostock-site.
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You can apply it to all your sites :)
BTW I should mention support and upgrades are free as always.
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I was excited to see this when I woke up this morning.
Purchased!
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how well does it play with Yoest's sitemaps?
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I have bought it, I'm not sure what to do with it now... where shall I uload it on the site?
I also have yoast, is there any special instruction in this case?
Thank you for any answer!
Jean
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Yes, it plays nice with YOAST. YOAST does everything else. This sitemap takes care of the unique need of your stock images.
It gives search engines this specific information:
- The specific location of ALL your stock image files in one run.
- The license (YOAST cannot do that)
- The location of your preview images (YOAST does not know where these are)
- The title and content relating to those images (Google doesn't have to guess now).
So lets say you have a page loaded with stuff - widgets, your author bio, related images, latest images, etc. The image page is already built in such a way to keep the guessing game low for the search engine. This rules out any issues of confusion or diluting of your SEO due to "noise" that may exist in the page due to people's different page layouts and needs.
Other benefits:- Its very possible that since this is a google designed sitemap that google images will consider every element within it and rank you accordingly.
- Faster indexing. Google does not have to crawl your site to find everything and guess its context/use/license etc.
To set it up you simply upload it as a plugin and you will see the option appear for the sitemap in your ladybug menu. Simply follow the instructions from there.
The reason why I made this plugin is because its actually an important need - and one of the few that YOAST cannot address completely.
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Thank you again for your kind help leo!
jean
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great plugin -- a few glitches though - first 2 are just documentation:
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'visit plugin site' link sends to symbiostock.com but no mention there of the plugin
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'submit to google' is confusing - it takes you to the page that TELLS you how to submit but doesnt actually do anything
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when submitting, i tested the sitemap and got
>>>>>>>
This is not a valid URL. Please correct it and resubmit.
Parent tag: image
Tag: loc
line: 14300
<<<<<<<
here's the image that caused the error (on the image:loc line)
<url>
<loc>http://cascoly-images.com/pix/image/fresh-vegetable-stalls-2/ (http://cascoly-images.com/pix/image/fresh-vegetable-stalls-2/)</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc></image:loc>
<image:title><![CDATA[Fresh vegetable stalls]]></image:title>
<image:caption><![CDATA[Fresh vegetable stalls, Pike Place Market Seattle Pacific Northwest
]]></image:caption>
<image:license>http://cascoly-images.com/pix/end-user-license-agreement/ (http://cascoly-images.com/pix/end-user-license-agreement/)</image:license>
</image:image>
</url>
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i took out the bad line and then got an error in a caption line elsewhere; i dont remember if google processes the rest of the sitemap when it finds an error
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I looked at the image that was causing the problem & found there was no actual image there - this may have come in during one of the earlier versions where editing (in a second session )while uploading or processing caused problems
meanwhile the 2nd error it found (test said ok, but submit tossed the error)
<url>
<loc>http://cascoly-images.com/pix/image/eggplant-and-other-vegetables-2/ (http://cascoly-images.com/pix/image/eggplant-and-other-vegetables-2/)</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://cascoly-images.com/pix/wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content/624-eggplant-and-other-vegetables.jpg (http://cascoly-images.com/pix/wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content/624-eggplant-and-other-vegetables.jpg)</image:loc>
<image:title><![CDATA[Eggplant and other vegetables]]></image:title>
<image:caption><![CDATA[Eggplant and other vegetables in the market in Orissa, India
]]></image:caption>
<image:license>http://cascoly-images.com/pix/end-user-license-agreement/ (http://cascoly-images.com/pix/end-user-license-agreement/)</image:license>
</image:image>
bold shows the error line -- looked at image and couldnt see anything wrong, but there was a space after 'India' in the line above, so might be an non-printing char. anyway, edited to be sure, re gen'd sitemap and now google seems to be content
</url>
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It might be as simple as a whitespace stripping. Thanks for letting me know. If anyone else sees any errors let me know. It should be very rare.
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Hi I bought this but cant install, i get this error
Installing Plugin from uploaded file: ss-img-sitemap.php
Unpacking the package…
The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature
Return to Plugins page
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Don't take it out of the zip :D Just upload the zip.
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Edit: Whoops...Leo beat me to it :)
Are you uploading the .zip file or are you unzipping first? When uploading a plugin to wordpress you don't want to unzip it. Upload the .zip file as is and you should be good to go. Hope that helped.
Hi I bought this but cant install, i get this error
Installing Plugin from uploaded file: ss-img-sitemap.php
Unpacking the package…
The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature
Return to Plugins page
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Just a note to everyone. Keep your transaction ID's. I'll be putting out one more version that receives auto-updates soon.
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Don't take it out of the zip :D Just upload the zip.
thats sorted thanks, although google analytics is now giving me this error
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Parent tag: image
Tag: loc
4192
Jun 19, 2013
Parent tag: image
Tag: loc
5164
Jun 19, 2013
Parent tag: image
Tag: loc
5425
Jun 19, 2013
??? grrrrr I really dont think wordpress and I are meant to be together!!
Seems like 3 bad images? how do i know which one they are to delete them?
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Nope! Thats perfectly fine. My problem.
Whats your site again? I can check out your sitemap and make the correction to the plugin.
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www.shaunwstock.com (http://www.shaunwstock.com)
& thanks leo much appreciated
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It appears the preview is missing for those -- which is actually a legit error from the site. If the value is empty I should put something generic in there.
Awesome images btw! Racoon dog? http://shaunwstock.com/image/racoon-dog/ (http://shaunwstock.com/image/racoon-dog/) Wow, didn't know they existed!
Heres the source pages:
http://shaunwstock.com/image/large-panoram-of-lincolnshire-field-with-rain-clouds-2/ (http://shaunwstock.com/image/large-panoram-of-lincolnshire-field-with-rain-clouds-2/)
http://shaunwstock.com/image/sheep-grazing-on-hill/ (http://shaunwstock.com/image/sheep-grazing-on-hill/)
http://shaunwstock.com/image/many-of-blue-moon-jelly-fish/ (http://shaunwstock.com/image/many-of-blue-moon-jelly-fish/)
If you don't mind waiting, I'm working on some more memory efficient stuff to handle large images, which is apparently what these were. Don't delete them! Simply reprocess them when I put out a new update.
<url>
<loc>http://shaunwstock.com/image/large-panoram-of-lincolnshire-field-with-rain-clouds-2/</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc></image:loc>
<image:title><![CDATA[Large panorama of lincolnshire field with rain clouds]]></image:title>
<image:caption><![CDATA[Large panoram of lincolnshire field with rain clouds in distancs]]></image:caption>
<image:license>http://shaunwstock.com/end-user-license-agreement/</image:license>
</image:image>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://shaunwstock.com/image/sheep-grazing-on-hill/</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc></image:loc>
<image:title><![CDATA[Sheep Grazing on hill]]></image:title>
<image:caption><![CDATA[Sheep grazing on grass on a hill]]></image:caption>
<image:license>http://shaunwstock.com/end-user-license-agreement/</image:license>
</image:image>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://shaunwstock.com/image/many-of-blue-moon-jelly-fish/</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc></image:loc>
<image:title><![CDATA[many of blue moon jelly fish]]></image:title>
<image:caption><![CDATA[many of blue moon jelly fish swimming]]></image:caption>
<image:license>http://shaunwstock.com/end-user-license-agreement/</image:license>
</image:image>
</url>
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ha ha thanks Leo, They are not displaying on the pages, I remember I deleted another large panorama as it wouldnt display. I might just delete the images then re-upload when the update come out?
thanks
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If you want. Until I find the golden means for crunching giant images on limited memory, we'll just have to adapt.
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Thats worked fine thanks Leo...:)
I can always down rez if I was desperate to have them up there, I know the pano was a large image, but I dont think the other two were tho?
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If you want. Until I find the golden means for crunching giant images on limited memory, we'll just have to adapt.
sounds like same problem I saw -- when a field is empty just need to put something there so google doesn't object
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Its there - I just put a '-' and it will be there next download.
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hi Leo, can this plugin auto detect my content description and apply it to meta description? I am using Yoast seo now, but I have to manually copy my text from content to my meta description.
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hi Leo, can this plugin auto detect my content description and apply it to meta description? I am using Yoast seo now, but I have to manually copy my text from content to my meta description.
I already got Leo to implement Excerpts a while back which allows the Yoast plugin to then do this process for you.
Just go to the Yoast Plugin, Titles & Meta tab, then under Post Types find "Symbiostock Images". In the meta description template part put "%%excerpt%%" (without the "") and it will auto generate it for you. Just be aware, it doesnt visually show up in the meta description box on the image edit page, it just applies it in the background. You may need to tick "Excerpts" to be shown on the Screen Options dropdown on the image edits page.
Hope that helps.
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hi Leo, can this plugin auto detect my content description and apply it to meta description? I am using Yoast seo now, but I have to manually copy my text from content to my meta description.
I already got Leo to implement Excerpts a while back which allows the Yoast plugin to then do this process for you.
Just go to the Yoast Plugin, Titles & Meta tab, then under Post Types find "Symbiostock Images". In the meta description template part put "%%excerpt%%" (without the "") and it will auto generate it for you. Just be aware, it doesnt visually show up in the meta description box on the image edit page, it just applies it in the background. You may need to tick "Excerpts" to be shown on the Screen Options dropdown on the image edits page.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for the info I will try :)
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It appears the preview is missing for those -- which is actually a legit error from the site. If the value is empty I should put something generic in there.
Awesome images btw! Racoon dog? [url]http://shaunwstock.com/image/racoon-dog/[/url] ([url]http://shaunwstock.com/image/racoon-dog/[/url]) Wow, didn't know they existed!
You must have the Midas touch Leo! Sold this image last night in Istock! :)
Lol :)
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hi Leo, can this plugin auto detect my content description and apply it to meta description? I am using Yoast seo now, but I have to manually copy my text from content to my meta description.
I already got Leo to implement Excerpts a while back which allows the Yoast plugin to then do this process for you.
Just go to the Yoast Plugin, Titles & Meta tab, then under Post Types find "Symbiostock Images". In the meta description template part put "%%excerpt%%" (without the "") and it will auto generate it for you. Just be aware, it doesnt visually show up in the meta description box on the image edit page, it just applies it in the background. You may need to tick "Excerpts" to be shown on the Screen Options dropdown on the image edits page.
Hope that helps.
It work! The "Exerpts" was ticked by default, I can't see the text appear in my image edit page "meta description", but I can see the word counter is counting and also can see at the source code my meta description is added. thank you!
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It applies the content - we loosely call it "caption" but its technically the content.
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Purchased !
Thanks Leo :)
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yesterday my sitemap.xml was about 930K and after submitting it google said1637 images pending
this morning there were only 24 images pending, and sure enough, my sitemap was only 34K
i regen'ed the sitemap and it was 862K - resubmitted
the google test said there were 1637 images, but when i then submtted it, it was back to 24 images and the filesize had reverted to 34K
i regen'ed the sitemap again and it was 862K & resubmitted to google
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after clicking "gen sitemap", it processes and refreshes the screen - but no indication anything actually happened -- need to add a timestamp or otherwise show that it actually did something
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The new version fixes that and other things mentioned above. Feel free to download it again.
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Hi leo,
I've just downloaded it again but it seems to be the same version (the last ?) I downloaded at 11:00.
Is it right ?
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Version should be 1.1.1 - I'm setting up an auto-update system.
For anyone who's purchased just send me your purchase number
leo[at]symbiostock.com and I'll give you the newer one if you can't find your updated version.
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Always on v.1.0 :(
Transaction ID sent by mail.
Thanks !
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Sent you the update.
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It appears the preview is missing for those -- which is actually a legit error from the site. If the value is empty I should put something generic in there.
Awesome images btw! Racoon dog? [url]http://shaunwstock.com/image/racoon-dog/[/url] ([url]http://shaunwstock.com/image/racoon-dog/[/url]) Wow, didn't know they existed!
You must have the Midas touch Leo! Sold this image last night in Istock! :)
Lol :)
I understand your excitement, but I would be way more excited if you sold it through your SY site. :o
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Do you have to delete site and start again as I had already submitted Yeost sitemap and with plug in I get
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.
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Hi
I used another site map generator at first. I deleted the site map from the google tools and then used Leo's to create a new map to put in its place
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I "think" I have got it working now, no idea what I did as have been trying to do too many things at once, either that or it sorted itself out, now it just needs to entice in customers :D
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Hi
I used another site map generator at first. I deleted the site map from the google tools and then used Leo's to create a new map to put in its place
no need to delete the other sitemaps -- google seems to choose different pages/images from each one
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I was just about to buy and install, but Symbiostock.com has disappeared - all I get is a Bluehost landing pages with some adverts on it?
Steve
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Yep! Switching to bluehost! Be online soon.
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To anyone who has contacted me to recieve the latest (self-updating) version of the plugin or who did not get a download page after purchase...
Are you not getting any responses from me?
I've just learned that its possible people are not getting emails from leo At symbiostock.com when I send.
If your still lacking anything give send me a request again.
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To anyone who has contacted me to recieve the latest (self-updating) version of the plugin or who did not get a download page after purchase...
Are you not getting any responses from me?
I've just learned that its possible people are not getting emails from leo At symbiostock.com when I send.
If your still lacking anything give send me a request again.
Not sure if you've replied or not, but I sent you an email yesterday and haven't heard back. But it could just be that you had better things to do! ;)
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No I got that one. Meant to reply soon! Generally I've been extremely busy reorganizing thing after this last month of disasters, the biggest one being my server problem. I'll get that soon.
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No worries, figured you were flat out.
By your reply above, do you mean the newest version of your plugin now supports auto-updates? If so I will get onto buying it.
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Yes, it supports auto-updates, but its unlikely I will have to do much since its does it job dead-on. I might put a new schema into it allowing more recognition of things like news images, or other semantic info. But for now - its 100% on target.
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Just bought it (woo!) but can't see anyway to download it from anyway, no email from your site either (just pay pals receipt email).
Any thoughts?
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Yep! Just the painful readjustments of setting up my cart again after the fire :D
Will send it in email.
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Ah, perhaps I should have held off buying it until you were up and running properly.
If you could email it that would be great.
Thanks Leo
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Just got it, thanks :)
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Same problem, paid the fee, no download.
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Same problem, paid the fee, no download.
Will have it working tonight - in the meantime did you contact me and get a response with plugin?
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I sent you an email at leo (at) sym.....
no response, and yes I checked the spam folder
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Give me your email address on sitemail. I'll get right on that. I'm working on the site tonight to get it working with purchases again.
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Thanks Leo for emailing it.
lbarn
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Just back from 14 days in France without computer and smartphone, I purchased the plugin and installed it. But now I don't find the generated sitemap. Please help me to get back in the digital world ;D
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If you install the plugin you will find a new option under the ladybug menu. Did you find that?
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I found a yellow field in the symbiostock-area (I guess you mean that with ladybug) indicating me that the sitemap is not generated yet. I confirmed it, but I'm not sure whether anything happend ...
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If you go to Royalty Free Images -> Sitemap
There should be a button to "generate sitemap", which you click.
Then you will have a field with the sitemap link that you click, and it auto-selects. Simply paste that into google webmaster tools.
Other than that, is something malfunctioning?
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Thanks Leo, everything worked like it should :)
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If you go to Royalty Free Images -> Sitemap
There should be a button to "generate sitemap", which you click.
Then you will have a field with the sitemap link that you click, and it auto-selects. Simply paste that into google webmaster tools.
Other than that, is something malfunctioning?
Do we need to "Generate Sitemap" every time after we've added new images or will the sitemap update itself once it has been created?
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It updates every 24 hours automatically.
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It updates every 24 hours automatically.
Awesome, thanks for the information.
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For anyone using sitemaps, a new update is available.
Dashphoto gave us an opportunity to see how LARGE portfolios are handled in Symbiostock.
I did have to make an adjustment however, to how sitemaps are handled. Instead of generating 1 BIG file containing 11,000 images, we have to create a collection of 2000-image sitemaps with an index sitemap pointing to them:
http://www.dashphoto.eu/symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml (http://www.dashphoto.eu/symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml)
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just as a note --= the yoast image sitemap and yours collect just about the same number of I,ages - yoast 'finds' a few more, but your sitemap has been slightly more successful in getting images indexed -- i'm getting 20=25% indexed now, up from 10-15%.
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Yoast is referencing the media pages, whereas this one is referencing the actual image page.
If you want to really have some fun check out webmaster tools - its seeing a lot of stuff on that image page. :D
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Is the plugin auto-update working Leo? It still hasn't shown up as an update for my site. I'm still on 1.1.2
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Good question. The service I'm using seems finicky. But you can click and update it even though it doesn't say update ready.
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Wow, talk about finicky... the update just showed up, so I clicked it, it immediately white screened, then my site was lost, only showing a plain text
"Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute."
Had to follow these steps to fix it:
http://blog.bravi.org/?p=752 (http://blog.bravi.org/?p=752)
TENSE few minutes, but all is back correctly now. And the update didn't work, so I had to do it again. This time it worked
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Yoast is referencing the media pages, whereas this one is referencing the actual image page.
If you want to really have some fun check out webmaster tools - its seeing a lot of stuff on that image page. :D
the yoast images-sitemap2.xml references the image pages and the file location using the same references as your plugin -- they present the info differently and produce slightly different results, so it's useful to have both submitting to google
yoast
<tr>
<td>
[url=http://cascoly-images.com/pix/image/floral-mosaic-detail/]http://cascoly-images.com/pix/image/floral-mosaic-detail/ (http://cascoly-images.com/pix/image/floral-mosaic-detail/)[/url]
</td>
<td>60%</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>Weekly</td>
<td>2013-05-06 06:32</td>
symbio plugin
-<url><loc>http://cascoly-images.com/pix/image/floral-mosaic-detail/ (http://cascoly-images.com/pix/image/floral-mosaic-detail/)</loc>-<image:image><image:loc>http://cascoly-images.com/pix/wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content/3696-floral-mosaic-detail.jpg (http://cascoly-images.com/pix/wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content/3696-floral-mosaic-detail.jpg)</image:loc>-<image:title>
<![CDATA[Floral mosaic detail]]>
</image:title>-<image:caption>
<![CDATA[Floral mosaic detail, Madrese-e Khan (founded 1615) Shiraz, Iran]]>
</image:caption><image:license>http://cascoly-images.com/pix/end-user-license-agreement-3/ (http://cascoly-images.com/pix/end-user-license-agreement-3/)</image:license></image:image></url></tr>
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Purchased. Thanks.
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I must said this is a plugin you can't miss it.
I am so impressed by the speed of my images being indexed, I purchased this plugin today around my local time 1.00pm and immediately submitted sitemap to google webmaster tool, now 11.30pm I have total of 767 images and indexed 418 images. I submitted yoast images sitemap around two months, so far only 223 images indexed.
Thanks Leo!
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I must said this is a plugin you can't miss it.
I am so impressed by the speed of my images being indexed, I purchased this plugin today around my local time 1.00pm and immediately submitted sitemap to google webmaster tool, now 11.30pm I have total of 767 images and indexed 418 images. I submitted yoast images sitemap around two months, so far only 223 images indexed.
Thanks Leo!
I must be doing something wrong. I've been using the plugin since it is available for purchase and have only 50 out of 1072 images indexed so far.
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I must said this is a plugin you can't miss it.
I am so impressed by the speed of my images being indexed, I purchased this plugin today around my local time 1.00pm and immediately submitted sitemap to google webmaster tool, now 11.30pm I have total of 767 images and indexed 418 images. I submitted yoast images sitemap around two months, so far only 223 images indexed.
Thanks Leo!
I must be doing something wrong. I've been using the plugin since it is available for purchase and have only 50 out of 1072 images indexed so far.
howmany of those are also with the agencies? that seems to be the biggest determining factor -
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I must said this is a plugin you can't miss it.
I am so impressed by the speed of my images being indexed, I purchased this plugin today around my local time 1.00pm and immediately submitted sitemap to google webmaster tool, now 11.30pm I have total of 767 images and indexed 418 images. I submitted yoast images sitemap around two months, so far only 223 images indexed.
Thanks Leo!
I must be doing something wrong. I've been using the plugin since it is available for purchase and have only 50 out of 1072 images indexed so far.
howmany of those are also with the agencies? that seems to be the biggest determining factor -
I guess about 90%. I changed title and/or description at most them though.
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I am new to SEO may be not the right person to reply your question, but I noticed your sitemap is symbiostock_image_sitemap_1.xml do you submit the correct sitemap?
I must said this is a plugin you can't miss it.
I am so impressed by the speed of my images being indexed, I purchased this plugin today around my local time 1.00pm and immediately submitted sitemap to google webmaster tool, now 11.30pm I have total of 767 images and indexed 418 images. I submitted yoast images sitemap around two months, so far only 223 images indexed.
Thanks Leo!
I must be doing something wrong. I've been using the plugin since it is available for purchase and have only 50 out of 1072 images indexed so far.
howmany of those are also with the agencies? that seems to be the biggest determining factor -
I guess about 90%. I changed title and/or description at most them though.
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I installed this yesterday too. Am anxious to see if it helped any.
edit: numbers haven't changed much, but this plugin has allowed a slight increase in number of images indexed.
My Yoast SEO sitemap shows 522 images submitted, with 355 indexed, while just since yesterday, this plugin sitemap is showing 518 images submitted with 381 being indexed. Sweet!
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I am new to SEO may be not the right person to reply your question, but I noticed your sitemap is symbiostock_image_sitemap_1.xml do you submit the correct sitemap?
I just checked mine and it is http://cathyslifestockphotos.com/symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml (http://cathyslifestockphotos.com/symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml)
Are you saying the url should not have the _1 after it?
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It can be any name but just to make sure Redneck submit the right one, he also have http://picbreeze.com/symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml (http://picbreeze.com/symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml), the one is a link to http://picbreeze.com/symbiostock_image_sitemap_1.xml (http://picbreeze.com/symbiostock_image_sitemap_1.xml), I am not sure is this causing the index problem, just trying to help.
I am new to SEO may be not the right person to reply your question, but I noticed your sitemap is symbiostock_image_sitemap_1.xml do you submit the correct sitemap?
I just checked mine and it is [url]http://cathyslifestockphotos.com/symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml[/url] ([url]http://cathyslifestockphotos.com/symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml[/url])
Are you saying the url should not have the _1 after it?
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I am new to SEO may be not the right person to reply your question, but I noticed your sitemap is symbiostock_image_sitemap_1.xml do you submit the correct sitemap?
How did you find out the filename of my sitemap?
I installed the very first version of the plugin which created a full image sitemap at symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml.
A few days later an update of the plugin was published which created the symbiostock_image_sitemap_1.xml file sitemap while having the original symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml file pointing to the new one.
To make sure I'm not missing anything I submitted both sitemap files to Google Webmaster tools.
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I think everyone have the same preset xml file name ;)
I am new to SEO may be not the right person to reply your question, but I noticed your sitemap is symbiostock_image_sitemap_1.xml do you submit the correct sitemap?
How did you find out the filename of my sitemap?
I installed the very first version of the plugin which created a full image sitemap at symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml.
A few days later an update of the plugin was published which created the symbiostock_image_sitemap_1.xml file sitemap while having the original symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml file pointing to the new one.
To make sure I'm not missing anything I submitted both sitemap files to Google Webmaster tools.
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Maybe Google got confused reading the original sitemap file pointing to the new one and the actual new one.
Actually, I'm a little confused now which one I should submit to Google. Obviously submitting both didn't work very well so far.
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I deleted now both sitemaps and then started the "Generate sitemap" process and it created two sitemaps again. I think there's something not right.
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based on this message from Leo, look like you just need to submit "symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml" and this will point to all your sitemap.
For anyone using sitemaps, a new update is available.
Dashphoto gave us an opportunity to see how LARGE portfolios are handled in Symbiostock.
I did have to make an adjustment however, to how sitemaps are handled. Instead of generating 1 BIG file containing 11,000 images, we have to create a collection of 2000-image sitemaps with an index sitemap pointing to them:
[url]http://www.dashphoto.eu/symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml[/url] ([url]http://www.dashphoto.eu/symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml[/url])
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I deleted now both sitemaps and then started the "Generate sitemap" process and it created two sitemaps again. I think there's something not right.
Everything is fine. The first one is an index. the second one holds the images.
It does that by default. The one linked to is the one you submit. It divides sitemaps into 2000 entries each. Reason being is its more memory efficient.
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Is there a simple explanation of the difference between web pages indexed and images indexed? Is one more important that the other? I looked at google webmaster tool help, and its still "cloudy" for me.
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Hi Leo do you just added an update to this plugin? I saw an update to 1.1.3 today, what happen if I update to 1.1.3? Do I need to resubmit the sitemap and will this affect my previous indexed images?
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This won't affect anything. Go ahead :D
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Ok thanks and updated ;)
This won't affect anything. Go ahead :D
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after updated to 1.1.3, all indexed images gone now is zero indexed, look like this update kill the previous sitemap and resubmit new sitemap with this file name symbiostock_image_sitemap_1.xml
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now the new sitemap get indexed 440 out of 766 still impressed the speed.
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I am stuck at about 200 images, about 23% not sure if my old port on the agencies has anything to do with that. Not really happy with that result (nothing towards SYS by the way). I will give it 2 more weeks and then I am going to upload to the agencies again. That was my plan anyway.
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Hi Leo,
I've the 1.1.1 version of plugin but no auto update notification how can I get the 1.1.3 version ?
Thanks ;)
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Go to your plug-ins and update from there ?
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Go to your plug-ins and update from there ?
Thanks for reply Christine, but I have no message for update
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There apparently are theme updates, too, but they arent showing in my admin area, either. I couldnt find explanations of exactly what has changed in the updates, either. :(
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Is there a simple explanation of the difference between web pages indexed and images indexed? Is one more important that the other? I looked at google webmaster tool help, and its still "cloudy" for me.
it's easier to get webpages indexed than images, but google doesn't give details
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Anyone who has the plugin and hasn't recieved update notices (should not be many) please contact me leo [at] clipartillustration.com
The only thing that has changed in this plugin is the way it makes an index of sitemaps. Everything else is the same.
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SYS sitemap has 28% indexed now and Yoast has 11% but I dont know which images are indexed by both and which are unique. So I'll say I have 28% indexed
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im up to 492 images out of 1245
However, i am totaqlly changing the images due to SEO so I guess google will do them all again
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These are my figures as of yesterday
/sitemap_index.xml
Web 6,602/4,935
Images 1,255/ 978
/symbiostock_image_sitemap.xml
Web 1,175/1,160
Images 1,175/1,098
I keep getting an error though - the time/date on my blog is coming up as incorrect even after I correct it in settings does anyone have any idea on how to make it "stick"
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im up to 492 images out of 1245
However, i am totaqlly changing the images due to SEO so I guess google will do them all again
I did that too... I am hoping more will be indexed.
Looking at Christines results, thats promising, almost 100%
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im up to 492 images out of 1245
However, i am totaqlly changing the images due to SEO so I guess google will do them all again
I did that too... I am hoping more will be indexed.
Looking at Christines results, thats promising, almost 100%
Kind of funny - though not related - every time I search "Symbiostock" image searches, your right up there with your eye pictures :D. Its just funny. I'm not sure which keywords your targeting, but you landed "Symbiostock" pretty good!
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im up to 492 images out of 1245
However, i am totaqlly changing the images due to SEO so I guess google will do them all again
I did that too... I am hoping more will be indexed.
Looking at Christines results, thats promising, almost 100%
Kind of funny - though not related - every time I search "Symbiostock" image searches, your right up there with your eye pictures :D. Its just funny. I'm not sure which keywords your targeting, but you landed "Symbiostock" pretty good!
I'm spending a lot of time on SEO :)
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Still stuck and barely moving forward. 59 out of 1244 images indexed.
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date symbi imagemap yoast image map
6-Jul 1894 521 27.5% 1894 554 29.3%
22-Jul 2201 1204 54.7% 2000 951 47.6%
yoast usually has about the same indexing, but there was a warning on the last update so some images weren't indexed
for webpages:
Web 2,201 1,934
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The YOAST sitemap has only 1 image indexed. I'm wondering how that's even possible.
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I am using Leo's Sitemap Plugin. I uploaded the sitemap file around two weeks ago on webmaster tools.
Til yesterday it was stuck at 1 image indexed. Yesterday it jumped to 13 and today it was at 31.
Webpages were indexed better. A few days after i submitted pages got already indexed. Currently 442 submitted - 365 indexed.
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Are those people with slow indexing taking the time to fill in all the seo data or batch uploading?
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Are those people with slow indexing taking the time to fill in all the seo data or batch uploading?
I've only worked detailed seo on a few images, and my major posts, while uplaodeing, yet have over 80% indexed. next step after being indexed of course is WHERE the image shows up
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Are those people with slow indexing taking the time to fill in all the seo data or batch uploading?
I have
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See the product page here:
[url]http://www.symbiostock.com/products-page/upgrades-and-plugins/symbiostock-image-sitemap/[/url]
Leo, I've been trying to log in tonight to the SYS site to purchase this plugin. But I can't get in.
Is there a special SYS account setup that I've not done yet? I've gone to Cart and Files/Your Account, where it tells me I must log in. I'm happy to do that but can't find the place to set up an account.
Please advise!
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You don't have to log in to get it. It tracks the purchase via cookies.
Unless you purchased it already and can't find it? Let me know.
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You don't have to log in to get it. It tracks the purchase via cookies.
Unless you purchased it already and can't find it? Let me know.
Guess I was overcomplicating things (as usual). Yes, it worked and I now have my first sitemap. That's cool.
I'm making real progress on my site. Lots more images to get into pages, but what's already there is looking fine. :-)
Thanks, Leo!
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Leo
Would it be possible to add Moneybookers as payment option for the plugins, I think some contributors would be interested as well to join Symbiostock as Paypal is a pain to use in some countries... ::)
Cheers
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Edit: Moved to new thread.
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I installed Leo's image sitemap generator a week or so ago but it has only updated once and that was when I manually updated it ( I pushed the button to generate the sitemap again). Originally, I generated the image sitemap and submitted the url to webmaster tools. The sitemap itself isn't showing the new images I'm adding daily and webmaster tools is indicating that only 7 images have been indexed. Is there something else I need to do to make the sitemap auto update?
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Very good, i got it and recommend
www.stocklabb.com (http://www.stocklabb.com)
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Found it
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I installed Leo's image sitemap generator a week or so ago but it has only updated once and that was when I manually updated it ( I pushed the button to generate the sitemap again). Originally, I generated the image sitemap and submitted the url to webmaster tools. The sitemap itself isn't showing the new images I'm adding daily and webmaster tools is indicating that only 7 images have been indexed. Is there something else I need to do to make the sitemap auto update?
does webmaster tools show any errors or warnings? I've been getting a lot of warnings lately saying it's taking a long time to access my site (on justhost)
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does webmaster tools show any errors or warnings? I've been getting a lot of warnings lately saying it's taking a long time to access my site (on justhost)
I have gotten some of those warnings, too. JustHost is owned by the same company that owns BlueHost. Did Justhost go down last week (or the week before) when BlueHost did? I am thinking my issues are caused by BlueHost's server issues.
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does webmaster tools show any errors or warnings? I've been getting a lot of warnings lately saying it's taking a long time to access my site (on justhost)
Just one warning (slow responding URL) but it is on my yoast sitemap. The image generator sitemap is clear of warnings.
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I have a little question..
there are 1641 images on my site and the sitemap generated 1640..
so why is that "1" image not included.. is it because something is broken with that image?
It's weird that only 1 image is left out..
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Same here
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Maybe it's your site logo or your author image that's of course not included in the image sitemap.
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Maybe it's your site logo or your author image that's of course not included in the image sitemap.
when I said 1641 images.. I didn't mean just any media.. I meant products for sale.. so it's not the site logo.. I have 1641 images that are for sale..
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Yeah, mines showing one less image than there actually is too. I don't think that was the case until I upgraded to the latest version of the symbiostock image sitemap.
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my numbers for both this and yoast vary by a few every day
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Mine is spot on.
Question: I saw that the Symbiostock sitemap XML file contains the entire image description including outgoing links to other sites (YOAST made me do it...). Is that ok?
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here also missing 1 image in Leo's sitemap.
because I have 56 images I was able to puzzle it out.
I found which image was missing, uploaded it again.
that image is in the sitemap now, but missing another one.
maybe Leo can find out why it is doing all-1 ?
kind regards,
Sándor Góra
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I'll check into that. Part of becoming a programmer often involves forgetting basic math.
Prof. Sedletz: You with the mattress head, now, if I gave you a dollar and your father gave you a dollar, how many dollars would you have?
Larry: One dollar.
Prof. Sedletz: You don't know your arithmetic.
Larry: You don't know my father!
Prof. Quackenbush: There's evidence of vacancy of the cranium.
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hi Leo, can this plugin auto detect my content description and apply it to meta description? I am using Yoast seo now, but I have to manually copy my text from content to my meta description.
I already got Leo to implement Excerpts a while back which allows the Yoast plugin to then do this process for you.
Just go to the Yoast Plugin, Titles & Meta tab, then under Post Types find "Symbiostock Images". In the meta description template part put "%%excerpt%%" (without the "") and it will auto generate it for you. Just be aware, it doesnt visually show up in the meta description box on the image edit page, it just applies it in the background. You may need to tick "Excerpts" to be shown on the Screen Options dropdown on the image edits page.
Hope that helps.
I don't have Excerpts on my Screen Options list. Why?
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Hello, I need urgent help. I baught this plugin, but, when I try to install it it tells me this:
"Destination folder already exists. /home1/luxurys8/public_html/food.ezeepics/wp-content/plugins/ss-img-sitemap/
Plugin install failed."
I supposed that is included in the Professional SS plugin but strange...is already passed more than a week and I don't see my site indicized in Google when I serach ezeepics. Can someone explain me why?
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Hi ezeepics,
You can find your images and urls already indexed by google with the following command on google.com
site:ezeepics.com (there's already many images indexed ;) )
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Hi ezeepics,
You can find your images and urls already indexed by google with the following command on google.com
site:ezeepics.com (there's already many images indexed ;) )
Yes, there is ezeepics because www.ezeepics.com (http://www.ezeepics.com) is with Photoshelter. But if I search "ezeepics" on Google I get only 4 pages and www.food.ezeepics.com (http://www.food.ezeepics.com) which is my symbiostock site doesn't appear in any of 4.
Normally shoud appear between the first results if indexed correctly. When I search ezeepics I should have first www.ezeepics.com (http://www.ezeepics.com) (and this it is) and second or third result www.food.ezeepics.com (http://www.food.ezeepics.com) (the subdomain - but this is not)
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Try the command site:food.ezeepics.com
Many image appears on Google images and 577 urls on Google web.
It takes time for images being indexed. My site is online since june 2013 and 75% of my images are indexed by google so don't worry :)
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Try the command site:food.ezeepics.com
Many image appears on Google images and 577 urls on Google web.
It takes time for images being indexed. My site is online since june 2013 and 75% of my images are indexed by google so don't worry :)
Too easy to search with food.ezeepics.com :) I need my images to appear between the first results, that's why I'm working now on SEO. Someone can tell me how do I make in order to have in the url of images the words "stock-photo" in the place of the word "image"? Type http://food.ezeepics.com/stock-photo/cupcakes-selective-focus/ (http://food.ezeepics.com/stock-photo/cupcakes-selective-focus/) ? Also what about images ID's? Someone knows how to add them?
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I wouldn't worry about IDs, but assuming you JUST uploaded the image you can change its SLUG in the editing area. Its located just under the title field. CAUTION - don't change the slug (url bit) after the image has been indexed. Its like changing your phone number after the girl is finally calling you.
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I wouldn't worry about IDs, but assuming you JUST uploaded the image you can change its SLUG in the editing area. Its located just under the title field. CAUTION - don't change the slug (url bit) after the image has been indexed. Its like changing your phone number after the girl is finally calling you.
And if it's indexed? Will not be indexed the second time? Leo I know that I can modify the slug, but is not a solution, a professional solution.I don't have time to change slugs for hundreds of images. My question is how to make in order that in automatic I have the words stock-image in the place of images?
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Hi Leo
My site isn't a blog. We sell downloadable maps using PayPal. As customers are most likely to buy our maps as a result of a Google image search I have been trying to set up a sitemap that includes images but none of the plugins that I have used (including Yoast) will do this. On various plugin support pages I have noticed some claims that Woothemes/Commerce are incompatible such and such plugin.
Will your image sitemap generator do the trick, is it compatible with WooCommerce and/or Yoast?