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    • shannmg1
      shannmg1 last edited by

      I have a photography page, where there are a number of galleries. In the galleries and thumbnails of each photo I'm selling. These also include the title. It's built dynamically. However, I've noticed when I do an on-page grade check, that one of the places I'm failing is over-using the keyword on the page. This is mainly due to the titles of each photo containing that keyword. For example, there might be a photo gallery for images of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and 30 of the 40 images on the page have a title with "Golden Gate Bridge" in them. So naturally, the title is displaying this on the page and showing up 30+ times (after the term is used in the page text as well). Is this a really big problem, or is the benefit on each individual photo page outweighing any hit on the gallery page? Any thoughts?

      Thanks!

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      • PatrickDelehanty
        PatrickDelehanty last edited by

        Hi there

        If you can give them images different names (possibly more creative names) with a description underneath that says "This is picture is of the Golden Gate Bridge" in so many words, and has an alt attribute that references the Golden Gate Bridge, this will be substantial enough.

        Also, remember that you can create image schema as well as an image sitemap to help crawlers digest what the image is of without duplicate Golden Gate Bridge titles.

        Hope this helps! Good luck!

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        • shannmg1
          shannmg1 last edited by

          That's really helpful! Thanks!

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