Gallary Pages

[cmaseattle]

We have multiple Gallery Pages on a website and they are all being indexed as duplicate content. I am assuming it's because there's no content on those pages. So, it's picking up the pages header/footer navigation and considering it content. I am not sure what the best way is to deal with Gallery pages. I want the images to get indexed, but not sure how to do this if I need to set the gallery pages with the thumbnails on it to noindex. Would it be smart to set the pages to "noindex, follow" or "index, nofollow" or do you have any other suggestions?

[intSchools]

If you set the pages as noindex then nothing within that page will be indexed - including the images. It should not be picking up the header/footer and thinking that is duplicate content as search engines will often understand that they are headers and footers.

[cmaseattle]

Is it a Gallery setting I need to be looking for or change?

[intSchools]

How are you galleries currently set up? Do they use an iframe?

[cmaseattle]

We are using NextGEN Gallery for Wordpress and it is Javascript (J-Query) based.

[intSchools]

Content that is delivered through JavaScript often has trouble being crawled by search engines. If the search engines cannot pick up your galleries then all they are seeing are empty pages (which would cause duplication). I would recommend looking into an alternative, SEO friendly provider.

[Debdulal]

Could you please show us some examples.. so that we can come up with suggestion how to fix this

[cmaseattle]

This is just an example of a couple URLS that are being considered duplicate content:

http://www.noveltyhilljanuik.com/private-events/culinary-2/
http://www.noveltyhilljanuik.com/private-events/winery-and-event-spaces/
http://www.noveltyhilljanuik.com/visit/photo-gallery/
http://www.noveltyhilljanuik.com/trade/novelty-hill-trade/

[Debdulal]

We have multiple Gallery Pages on a website and they are all being indexed as duplicate content.

When you are saying that you have no content on a page how on earth it would be treated as duplicate content. Purpose of the Gallery pages is to feature images and your website is serving the purpose precisely. To expedite the indexing of images, you can always create an image sitemap. No need to block any images. This is totally unnecessary.