Tadek’s Blog

I noticed that our [Gallery2](http://gallery.ibao.net) webpage has been ignored by Google Images. I researched this topic a bit and found the [list of search engine optimization tips for Gallery](http://gallery.menalto.com/node/36854), among which there was a line about avoiding “302 redirects”.

As it turns out Gallery uses a “302 redirect” to load “main.php“ on the initial load and it is also redirected from “index.php“, which is claimed to incur some anti-spam penalties for the Google engine. I don’t know whether this is true or not, but to be on the safe side, I decided to remove the reidirects.

Here’s what I did:

1. Move my site-specific “index.php“ somewhere else.
2. “ln -s main.php index.php“
3. Add the following line in the site-specific “config.php“:

define(‘GALLERY_MAIN_PHP’, ‘index.php’);

Everything seems to work now. We will see in a couple of weeks how well it works for the search engines

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