How do I turn this on?

Thank you Karen!

I don't see it in the slug either so I'm guessing it does need to be manually added if it needs to be there.  Maybe someone that knows more about SEO can chime in on this one.

Quote from: klsbear on April 08, 2013, 20:58

I don't see it in the slug either so I'm guessing it does need to be manually added if it needs to be there.  Maybe someone that knows more about SEO can chime in on this one.

Changing the slug after its been established is bad because its as if you are creating a whole new page and deleting the old one in the eyes of the search engine, which leads to a 404. The main mission here is to make "stock photo" a prominent subject of the page as well as the whole site. If you add it to slug during page creation its fine, but if its not part of the slug its most likely a minimal difference.

Leo - are we talking about the same slug?  I was referring to the image title which I thought we needed to change when we did the SEO optimization.  My process has been to upload images to draft, change the title to be different than what is used on other sites and to update the slug to match.  That's where I was wondering if we should manually add -stock photo if we're having that auto-appended to the image. But after publishing I have sometimes gone back and improved on the image title, changing both the title and slug.  Are you saying that once published we shouldn't edit that title or slug?

Changing the slug after its been established is bad because its as if you are creating a whole new page and deleting the old one in the eyes of the search engine, which leads to a 404. The main mission here is to make "stock photo" a prominent subject of the page as well as the whole site. If you add it to slug during page creation its fine, but if its not part of the slug its most likely a minimal difference.

Hmmm, I installed SEO Ultimate from the start of Symbiostock and created custom Meta titles and descriptions this way.

Now it's part of the Symbiostock SEO (which is awesome) but now I'm afraid I have to re-do my image titles and get rid of my SEO Ultimate?

Slug is the url element with the dashes. You can change that before publishing. Changing it after publishing is bad practice.

Of course it's best to get it right the first time but if we find that we have a typo or want to use a different title is it best to delete the entire page then re-upload again?

Just to clarify to avoid confusion:

The title is generated by a function the_title() in wordpress. When append the word "stock photo", that function is filtered to include the extra text.

the_title() is used in the Page Title, which is above your header where other meta information goes. Its also used in the visual (h1) title of your page, also on the image alt attribute, and the href attribute on the image. Much impact, still not spammy. So whatever word you append will have *huge* impact on the subject of your site, and in effect individual searches. Hope this helps.

Slug is the url element with the dashes. You can change that before publishing. Changing it after publishing is bad practice.

Please tell me where I can see the slug line on an image page. I see the permalink at the top of the page, but other pages have the permalink at the top, then an additional space named slug towards the bottom. When you say slug are you talking permalink in the case of the image pages?

I just uploaded an image and named it crayon-and-ruler-border-stock-photo.jpg. When it uploaded, it removed the stock-photo at the end (the permalink). Can you please explain why?

Can you answer the question about why it is renaming my files and removing the -stock-photo i am including in the file name before i even upload? I should be able to name my files what i want, no?

Filename as in something-stock-photo.jpg?

Yes. From my post above:

I just uploaded an image and named it crayon-and-ruler-border-stock-photo.jpg. When it uploaded, it removed the stock-photo at the end (the permalink). Can you please explain why?

i just wanted to make sure what was happening before I tried to explain anything.

The file-name is changed to an image number. Its not used in the end product. The title however is taken from the IPTC data, if you happen to have it. Keep in mind though if you add "stock photo" into the title of your IPTC data (you know, through Adobe Bridge or something) then yes it will  end up with that being part of the slug, but then if you set the "append-to-title" word to stock photo, you will end up with a "stock photo stock photo" ending to the files.

But its not crucially important that the slug contain "stock photo", because quite a few important elements already have that.

I am using the append to title feature you built in and it is correctly adding Stock Photo to the titles. That part is fine. No, I am not adding the words stock photo anywhere else, not in the IPTC data either. I am only naming the file something-stock-photo.jpg. When I go to my site, and I click on a thumbnail image and it takes me to the image page, the URL in the field should be named what I named the file. The files ARE named what I named them, except for removing the stock-photo.

It might not be important that stock-photo is in the url, but I'm still not understanding why the name of my photo is being changed by wordpress. It doesn't make sense. I am not certain that it's critical, I just don't like the names of my files being changed is all. There has to be a reason it's doing that.

I guess I'm kind of confused what the problem is. Can you give me a link to one of your pages?

A link to one of my pages will show you nothing. I will try to explain it one more time.


1. On my computer, i open up a photo, work on it, then save it with the name "horses-trotting-stock-photo.jpg.


2. I go to the upload photos section and upload the photo. I process the photo to drafts. Then i go to the image to check seo, keywords and stuff. When i look at the permalink for the image, the url is now "http://www.cathyslifestockphotos.com/horses-trotting". Why wouldnt the url be "http://www.cathyslifestockphotos.com/horses-trotting-stock-photos"? That's what i named the image.

I see that you sort of answered this in another thread. I say sort of because I already know that the append to title adds words in title but not permalink. You haven't explained why words are being taken away from the permalink (file name that I gave it). I'm going to keep harping on this until you answer me. 

The filename that you gave it disappears as soon as you upload and process the file to be replaced by a number. The permalink is nothing to do with the filename, it uses the slug, which is a simplified version of the post title, read from the IPTC data initially. The display image which you can see in the media library has a filename made up from the image number and the slug, giving it a unique filename containing your important keywords. The original image is stored in the secure folder as $imagenumber.jpg