Thread:FishTank/@comment-3361105-20180507225752/@comment-3361105-20180510032424

FishTank wrote: ...adding alt-text to the images in that way will not significantly improve SEO for the mainspace article. I understand - it was originally kind of a half-hearted attempt to squeeze blood from a stone, in terms of automating the text, so that there was some meaningful text versus none. As you say, there is some now - it's just not very meaningful, but also out of our hands, so, *shrug*.

From an absolutely ideal SEO solution, separate Gallery pages from the article are of limited utility. Not that it's a point we need to argue, but we do happen to know that people use our gallery pages for references in drawings, cosplay, etc. It just necessitates already knowing about us - obviously our bad SEO prevents anyone from finding them in a google search.

A more ideal solution would be galleries on the main page article, at the bottom. Not 100% opposed to this, but it kind of forces us to use the new galleries, when we kind of hate them. I would think that having galleries tacked onto the bottom of the page, (especially gigantic ones, like this one), would cause those pages to take forever to load in the mediawiki galleries.

Page-templates can become an automatic SEO killer if they use tables as the envelope elements, as Google doesn't parse through table tags... I understand, of course, how hard that would be to automate. Well, I ran a search myself, and currently, the "body text" of our File pages, from the template is picked up by google - it's just not useful information that anyone would ever google (it's a fair use notice). I have some ideas to fix that. And some ideas about some... limited automation.

Thanks!