Lets say my website keyword is on red shoes. I have coppermine installed on my website to display pictures of red shoes. The coppermine gallery is located at red-shoes.com/gallery. When I am making a sitemap, do I want to map out all the hundreds of pages that coppermine installs. Since all the pages will not be relevant to my key word red shoes, because they are login pages, etc. What would you do in this situation?
I'd only sitemap the url's you want indexed. I'd take things further and block the url's you don't want through robots.txt and also put nofollow tags on links pointing to those places.
there is some good text on the coppermine gallery. the text contains keywords, like in the description of the picture. should i just block the gallery or keep it since i will be having some good keywords in the image's description?
Theyre login pages? Sorry i haven't used coppermine...are these pictures and descriptions accessible by public and not beyond a login? If so, just using the url, the bot will eventually find your pages and index your text and everything. If it's beyond a login...there's no point in putting it in the sitemap..
you do not have to log in to view the pictures. im just scared that google will index pages that are not relevant to my keyword... and it will bring my page rank and page relevancy down.
Well technically if you're so worried put it on a subdomain...google will not start punishing you till the content is TOOO unrelated like..casino on a student book site..But if your site is about shoes and you're displaying shoes picture..theres nothing wrong with it at all