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I upgraded to the 2.8.4
My view html page no longer works
http://flooringhardwood.com/gallery/imagevue.php?p=html
not sure what I did
thanks

We set this to automatically redirect to the flash version, if the visitor has flash, as to improve the SEO. What exactly are you using the html version for? You are aware that most non-flash mobile devices all see the mobile version, while all flash devices see the flash version? The html version is only for those few desktops who have disabled flash, and for them, the html version is still available because it does not redirect to the flash version.

You can turn off the redirect from admin -> settings -> seo.htmlRedirect, but I am not quite sure why you would want to do that.

Thank you for your reply. I wasn't exactly trying to use the html version I was just testing my site. That makes great sense that it would automatically redirect if the user has flash enabled. I was not aware of this capability.

However, I do not feel that my gallery is search engine optimized. I do not see where my images are being picked up in the google image results. Is there some setting that I need to enable. I have had my gallery up for some time and when I do a search in google for a specific image I do not get any results. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Unfortunately, Google does not seem to be interested in picking up separate images in the Imagevue gallery. This could possibly be because the links are associated with JPG so Google thinks its just an image (and therefore doesnt want to index it like a page). Imagevue is not 100% SEO friendly, although we hope to amend this in future releases of a new html version.

I would question though the importance of having searches be able to land on specific images in your gallery. Do you have an example of what someone might search for? If someone searches your name/brand/domain, they will certainly find your gallery website. I don't see anyone searching for a specific image topic and landing on your website ...

Yes certainly.
Many times our customers are searching for a specific type of flooring, i.e., hickory, madrone, brazil cherry, etc. etc I would like those customers who type those specifics into a search engine image search to find our photos which will then lead them to our website.

Thank you.

You are right of course, although it is very unlikely in this day and age that Google will rate your sub pages into any of the first results pages for those terms. That is unless someone adds your domain name into their search also ... For example "yourdomain brazil cherry flooring". Likely Google will first pick up main root domains most related, and thereafter it may start picking blog posts and large authoritative websites with a lot of information on the subject.

In the future we hope to have an optimized and more spearheaded approach to SEO, although it will not work miracles. As it stands today, Google does not seem to wish to index separate photos in your gallery as searches, and if it does, they wont rank high anyway ...

I found the new version of imagevue ( X2.8 ) much, much more SEO friendly than previously.
In my case, I can easily find a lot of my images in google on the first place, typing a single quote (short name of image subject).

I think all of this depends on type of content and subject in general.
In your example - flowers - on the web is a bilion of flower images existing for a long time. Google will show first images that are mostly viewed. And not viewed precisely as image, but as page that contains that image. Therefore most popular pages get more search results in images.

Guess what - even if some really popular web page/service shows only cars and for some reason they put online a single image of an flower, they will get more search results for that flower than site which contains a hundreds images of the same flower but have only a few views daily. Even for a car name thy can get this image as a search relult
(google search rank == image search rank).

Popular web pages (most of them use kinda "SEO boosters") get 1.ooo's views every day . I guess your site don't gets as much traffic, that's why don't generates many search results.

The search bots don't sit on one page waiting for a feedback from user They "walk" around the links on the web. From one site to another. If the bot visit to your site frequently it thinks that your site is important and will rate it higher for a certain keyword.