Photo names and SEO issue

Hi,

We have a photos based site with lots of  photos and we are having some issues with the photo names. Dolphin stores each photo with a hash e.g. 298216ec46fd4f7273a0ds0a337df8.jpg instead of the photo tile and it's really bad in terms of SEO. We understand that google relies on photo tags as well but we strongly feel the google algorithm gives precedence to photo name. The same goes for videos as well.

People don't search for the hash, they search for the title. Other CMS like wordpress, use the photo title to store the image e.g. olympics-2012.jpg and we can see the difference that google is picking up the wordpress pics from our site but not the boonex one's.

Is it possible to somehow change this behaviour so that photo's get stored with title instead of hashes?

Thanks

Mick

The problem i think in this is that it can be a problem if someone upload a file with same name. I am not very sure of the error it will give but it will be an error.

Edit: I think you should better work on image alt tags.

I was under the impression that each member had his own folder where the various photos, videos etc were stored.

I don't think  duplicate names can be a problem as we already have existing systems like Wordpress handling it. There's no option to enter image alt tags when you upload photos.

That's correct but here we are talking about the actual file name of the photo or video that gets stored. We really need some way to have the title as the name of the file....

yes there is no option by default but it can be added. but for now you can use the photo title as the alt tag like this.

edit modules\boonex\photos\templates\base\view_unit.html

at line 14 you will find this

  <div class="fileUnitPic" style="width:__width_ext__px;">

            <img src="__pic__" class="fileUnitSpacer" />

        </div>

Change it to this

<div class="fileUnitPic" style="width:__width_ext__px;">

            <img src="__pic__" class="fileUnitSpacer" alt="__fileTitle__"/>

 </div>

This is a small fix but it will help.

Good luck

 Hello

Where do you go to add alt tags to photos in video home and photos home?

 I'm guessing the alt="_fileTitle_" has been change since 7.1? I tried but when I look at the alt it says _fileTitle. Is there any other options or code?

Thnanks,