Galleries and duplicate content

[teconsite]

Hi!

I am now studing a website, and I have detected that they are maybe generating duplicate content because of image galleries.

When they want to show details of some of their products, they link to a gallery url
something like this

www.domain.com/en/gallery/slide/101

where you can find the logotype, a full image and a small description. There is a next and a prev button over the slider. The next goes to the next picture

www.domain.com/en/gallery/slide/102

and so on. But the next picture is in a different URL!!!!

The problem is that they are generating lots of urls with very thin content inside.
The pictures have very good resolution, and they are perfect for google images searchers, so we don't want to use the noindex tag.

I thought that maybe it would be best to work with a single url with the whole gallery inside it (for example, the 6 pictures working with a slideshow in the same url ), but as the pictures are very big, the page weight would be greater than 7 Mb.

If we keep the pictures working that way (different urls per picture), we will be generating duplicate content each time they want to create a gallery.

What is your recommendation?

Thank you!

[hectormainar]

Maybe you could index your galleries, which show the small thumbnail so that it does not weight those 7mb you talk about, and link with the a href to the full image size.

Other option is to keep working as you do, and manually insert a title and a small description for each image page. This would definitely improve your SEO for those images, but obviously it is a manual work which I don't know if you will be able to do depending on the volume of images you process.

[RyanPurkey]

Hello. I wouldn't be too concerned with this as a thin content issue as the content of each page is the image, its attributes, size, etc. Several sites--Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr, etc--are almost all purely image based content with the great bulk of their pages being one image on one URL and very little other content.

Google is aware of image heavy sites and gallery formats and has a system in place for aiding in indexing this type of content, their Image Sitemaps: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/178636  I'd use that system for indexing your separate image URLs and then monitor the success via Search Console.

If your search console (Google Webmaster Tools) is displaying a manual action for thin content, it's likely not the image galleries. Cheers!