How do I stop the tags from showing.

OhEddie · March 17, 2015

I add tags in LR and upload to SM because tags are a good thing for SEO purposes, correct? However, I do not want the tags to show when anyone views my site. It looks messy.

http://www.hadephoto.com/PORTFOLIO/The-People/

Allen · March 17, 2015

The problem is they will always be collected on this Smugmug system page.
http://www.hadephoto.com/keyword

You could probably customize the /keyword page to only show the keyword/tags content box
when logged in as owner. The box is a locked default Smugmug block so you can't delete it.
Something like this in CSS would hide it from visitors. But CSS can be overridden with developer tools.

.sm-page-widget-keywords {display: none}
.sm-user-owner .sm-page-widget-keywords {display: block}

Then with additional CSS hide them under the photos.

Biggest but, I've heard Google will not index anything hidden.

denisegoldberg · March 18, 2015

OhEddie wrote: »

I add tags in LR and upload to SM because tags are a good thing for SEO purposes, correct? However, I do not want the tags to show when anyone views my site. It looks messy.

You've allowed the automatic addition of (garbage) keywords based on your photo file names. The only time this makes sense is if you had renamed your files prior to upload. As it is your keyword page (http://www.hadephoto.com/keyword) is littered with photo filenames as generated by your camera and by 3 to 4 digit numbers.

I would recommend taking the time to edit your keywords to remove those.
You also might want to change the property that specifies that these should be generated by going to Account Settings... Discovery... Filename keywording.

--- Denise

OhEddie · March 20, 2015

Thanks for your reply.
I'll attempt to clean it up.

How do I stop the tags from showing.

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