Okay, so I have a website www.mykeyword.com. The website has 20 pages of unique content. I also have a photo gallery that has 250 pictures of my keyword. The gallery is at www.mykeyword.com/gallery Currently I have the gallery blocked with the robots.txt since I do not want to take away from my website' relevancy to my keyword with a bunch of pages with no content. Should I allow Google to index these pages? Also, I am thinking about setting up a forum on this website. Should I allow Google to index the forum as well? The forums members will more than likely not be mentioning the keyword I am targeting in their post. It will be more of a hangout for them since I am targeting a very specific demographic. Can someone please help me? Thank you
I would say yes on the images...especially if they are using your keyword. Image searches are growing in popularity, and are a good way to get traffic. You could always just try it and see what happens. At the worst, you take them back off and stick to your original plan.
put the forum on a subdomain....forum.mykeyword.com. let google index the images, put alt and title tags on the images with a proper description. if possible, put a small description below the images if possible....name your images with your keywords....change the meta information of your images and add keywords to them....
I am using coppermine image gallery for the images, and users can submit images. So not all images have keywords, etc. Also, I don't want duplicate content penality due to all the coppermine files......
how wld allowing indexing of all your pages 'take-away' your keyword relevancy? You cannot possibly design every page for the same keywords. If your homepage is well-optimised for the relevant keywords, think that is good enough . Use alt for your images to add content, which will also help. don't see any issue with your forum as it adds to the content of your site
will google count this as keyword spam since he has the same description for 250 images? it could have a negative impact....
From my research google gives your domain an overall keyword relevancy.... lets say you have a website about "red shoes" with 20 unique pages of content about "red shoes" , and then you throw 30 pages about "purple dogs" your overall keyword relevancy for red shoes will drop...in result your google search results will not be as good.... someone that knows their SEO please correct me if I am wrong....
I would say for both the things.. the forums as well as the images...do not craete any block for Google to crawl your website as you never know from where you will be able to benefit here and now...
I would only allow a few pages with the images to get through as long as they have alt tags on them. And deffinitly allow the forum to be indexed as long as its monitored. the more content the better.
firstly, i don't profess to be an expert in SEO. So don't hurl rocks if i'm wrong I don't see why G shld penalize your keyword relevancy as certain pages of your site can be targeted at certain keywords while other pages target other keywords. Look at huge sites like CNET with tens of thousands of pages, do u expect their entire site to be targeting only 1 type of keyword? Look at each page of their site. It is specially designed to target the category of the page, i.e. cellphones, computers, etc. together with the product that it is reviewing or discussing. So I seriously don't think that you will be penalized for targeting different keywords on different pages as it just does not make sense. IMHO.....