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Home > Screen-by-Screen Help > Step 5: Manage Gallery > Tag tab

Tag tab

This tab lets you insert description and keywords metadata into your gallery's HTML code to help search engines find your gallery on the Web.   

How to use this feature

Enter your Description and Keywords into the provided fields. When you generate your gallery, this information will be added to your HTML code.

How the program generates metadata

You can enter for each image:

  • Image short caption (in Step 2 --> Text tab)
  • Image long description (in Step 2 --> Text tab)

You can enter for each album:

  • Album description (in Step 2 or Step 3)

You can enter for each gallery:

  • Gallery description meta-tag (in Step 5 --> Tag tab)
  • Gallery keywords meta-tag (in Step 5 --> Tag tab)

Shozam generates the following page types:

  • Intro
  • Index
  • Slideshow
  • QuickView
  • Large
  • Details
  • Details All
  • Map (image)
  • Map (gallery)

Here is how Shozam is set up to automate the optimization with the information users have already entered into the program. For each page, here is what the program uses to fill in the Description and Keywords meta-tags:

PAGE TYPE DESCRIPTION META-TAG KEYWORDS META-TAG
Intro Gallery description Gallery keywords
Index Gallery description Gallery keywords
Slideshow Gallery description Gallery keywords
QuickView Image short caption Gallery keywords
Large Image long description Gallery keywords
Details Image long description Gallery keywords
Details All Gallery description Gallery keywords
Map (image) Image long description Gallery keywords
Map (gallery) Gallery description Gallery keywords

Page Title tag: the program automatically uses the Gallery title that you entered in the Generate tab field, for the title tag for all your gallery pages.

Note that Google doesn't pay attention to keywords any longer since these have been abused so widely but I think Yahoo rankings may still be affected by them. Also be aware that it may take a while for a Web site to be ranked properly. Google pushes down artificially new sites that do not have a "history"; it can take up to 6 months for rankings to follow their regular ranking algorithms.

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