Adding a picture page - Good or Bad?

[VictorVC]

I have a lot of cool pics that just did not quite make it on one of my pages. Not necessarily because I did not want to, but space reasons they just happened to lose out to another photo. What I was thinking was, maybe I can add like a gallery page? Possibly with links back to the pages that each photo was considered for? Would this be a decent idea or just a page deemed as having low quality/value and end up hurting my site. Or maybe you can add an idea that may make it work for me!

[donford]

Hi Veeters,

I'm not sure where you're thinking of adding pictures, but in general the best blogs, and content sites do a good job of including images inside content articles.

For example if you read any of the SeoMoz blog post you'll notice a very good mix of text and images, search engines not only like this, but users don't much care to be hit with a big ole wall of text. Images help keep people interested and also gives the post a good overall look.

You maybe able to integrate your unused images in some of your content (I noticed a few pages that were very text heavy example: http://blog.shakes4life.com/), if the images are to large you can thumbnail them and use something like LightBox, or ZoomView so users can get a larger view. Using images in this way will also give you opportunities to add alt text to further emphasize some of your content.

Lastly, it wouldn't make since to add images to a page that isn't go to rank for anything, what will happen is people will just steal your images and use them on their pages with content to out rank you.

Hope it helps,

[VictorVC]

Incorporating them into the blog is a good idea. The blog subdomain was sort of an after thought attachment to the static site that I really need to utilize better. I was really just think like a gallery page on the site.

[donford]

Certainly doesn't hurt to have multiple product images, if that is applicable. I just don't see a good way to make a gallery work for your type of site. But there maybe......

[VictorVC]

There are a few reasons. If you look at the rest of the pages from my site, the company I sell for also sells lots of other products that have "celebrity" trainers, plus there are some fun pics of TV placement spots. Lots of "fun stuff" that I'd like to add that just didn't happen to work on a product page. Plus, it would give me more material to Pin on Pinterest to help drive traffic.

I guess my real question is... From a strictly SEO aspect, would it be detrimental to my site to have a Gallery page with links back to some of my other pages?