ianevans - 8:44 am on Jul 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

This is starting to circle back to something in a previous thread, so I'll make a comment and head off to a new thought.

If Robert Charlton is the most sought after person to attend the widget convention, we might have eight photos of him, six of hutchence and one of Jane Doe. As I pondered in a previous thread, I should noindex 7 Robert's eight and add trivia to the one:

"Robert Charlton, who moderates Google Search News, has now made over 4700 posts." Since, for my needs, it doesn't really matter if ALL the photos are indexed, just one of EACH person attending the widget event. If I go by that tack, I can also rename that ONE photo file to robert-charlton-2008-widget-conference.jpg which is a heckuva lot easier than renaming 500 after a long night of widgeting. And even if dupes are noindex'd that's still a few thousand more photos than right now.

Which brings me to the new question. Is the descriptive text just a matter of proximity or, if there are div's, does it need to be in the same div?

I know some people have suggested:

<div>
H1 Description
IMG
Description
</div>

but some CSS designs call for wrapping the image in its own div to add drop shadows, so you'd have:

<div>
H1 Description
<div class="drop">IMG</div>
Description
</div>

Does that matter to Google? And...almost finished my 4:41am rambling...is there any issue with navigation text. Usually a slideshow will have Previous and Next. Can't really change those too much, but does sticking the caption in the link help e.g.:

<a href="/photo/3" title="Robert Charlton at the widget show">Next</a>

Thanks for your patience in letting me think out loud!