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Even though Google is not indexing the X2 html "image pages" yet, they are now showing many of my full sized images in their "Image" search and referencing the html thumb pages they are linked from.

Interesting. I'm not thrilled about the full sized images being out there...but it's done -;)

Lightview was turned off for a couple of days recently (it's usually on), but I'm fairly certain it grabbed them from the right click links on the html thumb pages, as the image search results reference these pages as the source.

Also. I've been using Google's "Webmaster Tools" to track what URLs Google index. It's really handy, but doesn't reflect (that I can see) what Google is cataloging in "Image" search.

Anyway...just posting a little info for those who are interested.

Correction.

Took a closer look. Google is not directly caching the large images, but rather caching a small thumb and linking directly the jpg file via direct URL.

I had a code that prevented users from directly accessing my directory indexes or direct image URLs (by redirecting to the root) within the .htaccess file. That script was inadvertently removed which was allowing google to point straight to the file.

Reinserted the code and the cached google thumbs links now redirect the the root directory. All is well.

OK...Move along...Nothing more to see here folks -;)

Thanks for your observations =)

We did release a new sitemap page in latest release, although I don't really think it will change anything in terms of how google indexes separate images. The best shot to change that, would perhaps be to change the URLs to images so they don't end with *.jpg, although we are slightly reluctant to do so.

Understand...Thanks for keeping SEO in mind -;) Ya'll Rock.