Will bots think image gallery spam?

will alot of pages with little text copy be considered spam by seobot?

[kreagh]

I manage an artist's website (my father-in-laws) and most pages are built around a single image. Since there is so little copy on these pages and the structure is so similar, I'm concerned a search engine might consider these pages spam (humans can tell the pages have significantly different content). Is this something I should be worried about?

An image page has about 80 words, including alt tags, captions, etc....about 50% unique to the image, the others pertaining to its style or movement. Occasionally I include an artist's quote to add variation (these quotes rarely contain relevant keywords). I dynamically pick random alt tags & page title from a small array of relevant and descriptive keywords and attach them to the image title.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

P.S. I'm planning on just attaching a short excerpt from the artist's writtings to each image.Not keyword optimized, but atleast its interesting content.

[MichaelBluejay]

I doubt the engines will consider it spam. It's unlikely the pages will rank well anyway, because there's so few words on them, but I don't see any engine penalizing your site.

[JAB Creations]

That is a very good question! I have a 333 image gallery of the matrix on my site and I know for sure the big three (google/msn/yahoo) have all at least crawled the majority of those pages.

However I don't feel like I am yet aknowledged enough to give any acredited answer/opinion that you could raelly accept. I have the #1 spot for matrix gallery on most engines (not sure how the heck that happened actually) so I'm not sure what to tell you.

[kreagh]

I'm not too worried about the amount of copy. Fortunatley, I have alot of writings to work with & have "Facts & Ideas" section with alot of copy. There will be alot of links back and forth between galleries & articles.

I just don't want to get penalized. I'm new to this, but am learning alot (this is actually fascinating :) & will post any insights as they occur.

[kreagh]

JAB,

Question: Did you need to get permission to post Matrix pics on your site?

[adb64]

I have the same. I have a number of photopages with thumbnails on them and when a photo is clicked another window opens with a larger photo and some more text.

What I notice is (at least in G) that after all pages with the large photo are indexed and present, over time these pages one after another slowly disappear from the index and are present in G with the URL only and no longer with a title and description. When G does a major update most (not all) of the pages re-appear and then one after another again they disappear slowly until the next update.

[Beagle]

I'm new to this, but am learning alot (this is actually fascinating :) & will post any insights as they occur.

I'll be interested in what anyone discovers about this, too. I'm just starting a site that's made up mostly of my own original web graphics for download. On some of the pages I'm adding tutorials on how the graphics were created (with links for buying the software used), but most pages are simply the graphics themselves. I haven't expected these pages to get any kind of a rating, but hadn't thought of them being considered duplicate content. I'm concentrating on using keywords, etc., on the tutorial pages and on pages that are in the higher levels of navigation. Definitely too soon to know how any of it will work out!