What's the correct SEO for a Gallery?

[media.street]

Hi there,

I was wondering if anyone was an expert on galleries and using canonical URL's?

URL: http://www.tecsew.com/gallery

In short I'm doing SEO for a site and it has a large gallery (3000+ images) where each specific image has it's own page and each category (there's 200+) also has its own page.

Now, what I'm thinking is that this should be reduced and asking Google to index/rank each page is wrong (I also think this because the quality of the pages are relatively low i.e little text & content etc)

Therefore, what should be suggested/done to the gallery? Should just the main gallery categories get indexed (i.e http://www.tecsew.com/3d-cad-showcase)? Or should I continue to allow Google to trawl through all of it? Or should canonical URL's be used?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best Wishes,

Charlie S

[EGOL]

If somebody gave that site to me I would go back to basics.

I think that the category and product titles have not been planned with keywords in mind.  I would talk to the business owner and determine what keywords he needs to be visible for in the search results. Then a detailed plan of systematic categories and product types would be developed and the goal would be to fill all of them.

Then I would make no more than one page for each product type.  That page would have several photos (sometimes a lot of photos) and each photo would have a generous description.  I would tell the business owner that I need those descriptions.  If he is not willing to write them I would ask him if he wants to be competitive or if he wants to fart around.  If he wants to be competitive and bring in long-tail traffic then he better get writing and do a good job of it.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words so the owner of this business should have no trouble describing the product.