Using a lightbox - possible duplicate content issues

[Jon-C]

Redesigning website in Wordpress and going to use the following lightbox plug-in http://www.pedrolamas.pt/projectos/jquery-lightbox/

Naming the original images that appear on screen as say

'sweets.jpg'
and the bigger version of the images as

'sweets-large.jpg'

Alt text wise I would give both versions of the images slightly different descriptions.

Do you think there would be any duplicate content issues with this? Anything I should do differently?

I'm very wary of doing anything that Google is likely to think is naughty, so want to stay on their good side!

Cheers
T

[donford]

Hi Teddi,

From an SEO perspective you should have no issues. There is little to no risk of duplicate content since the lightbox is still part of the original page. The other benefit is higher quality images (the larger ones) are more attractive to both users and search engine image crawlers.

The one thing you may want to note is some mobile devices have a little difficulty displaying certain light boxes. If you have a decent amount of mobile visitors you may want to pay attention to it.

Hope that helps

[UnderRugSwept]

I agree with donford. I've never heard of duplicate images being flagged as duplicate content. What is more, almost everyone sets up their galleries in this manner, so you really don't have anything to worry about.