don't want photos to be public

[yahootintin]

hi,

i'm a new smugmug user and am very excited about using it. i want anyone who goes to my album to be able to view the photos but i don't want the photos to show up in the global keyword search.

is there a way to remove my photos from the global keyword search without making my albums private?

thanks!

[Baldy]

Hey Yahootintin,

Welcome!

The answer to your question, unfortunately, is know if I understand it correctly. Is what you're looking for to have your albums show up to to your visitors when they come to your home page but not be found in global search?

Thanks,
Baldy

[jberd126]

Baldy,

I have the same question. Is it possible to have my albums/photos not show up in the global searches without making them all private? I would still like them to be searchable but only from my personal home page. Could this be done with a setting on the album's configuration page?

Thanks!
-J

Originally Posted by Baldy

The answer to your question, unfortunately, is know if I understand it correctly. Is what you're looking for to have your albums show up to to your visitors when they come to your home page but not be found in global search?

Thanks,
Baldy

[Baldy]

Hey J,

Welcome! We get asked this from time to time and the current answer is no, but let me talk to the crew here and see how hard a feature that might be. I suppose a global setting would be nice, no?

Thanks,
Baldy

[yahootintin]

A global setting would be great for me!

Something like:
[X] Exclude your Keywords from Smugmug Keyword list

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Baldy

Hey J,

Welcome! We get asked this from time to time and the current answer is no, but let me talk to the crew here and see how hard a feature that might be. I suppose a global setting would be nice, no?

Thanks,
Baldy

[jberd126]

A global setting would work perfect for me as well. I think that many personal users could find this feature desirable. Thank you in advance for implementing it!

-J

[jberd126]

Not to press, but is the non-global keyword option something that has a chance of being implemented?

-J

[onethumb]

Originally Posted by jberd126

Not to press, but is the non-global keyword option something that has a chance of being implemented?

-J

Here at smugmug, everything has a chance of being implemented, so your answer is yes. :)

This is an interesting question, and might not be too difficult to do, but let me make sure I understand correctly:

You want an option in each gallery that, if the gallery is set to public, you can still restrict keywords to your homepage, and not the global site?

What about full-text searching? Do you want that disabled globally, too, or just keywords?

Do you want us to tell Google not to index it, either, or do you want Google to still index?

Any other gotchas you can think of?

Don

[jberd126]

Thanks for replying Don.

The purpose of this request is to keep my personal photo galleries more private. I love the search capabilities that smugmug supplies but I would like to have it restricted to just my site. I would prefer not to have my photos or galleries in global searches of keywords or captions not have it listed in the Google index.

Originally Posted by onethumb

Here at smugmug, everything has a chance of being implemented, so your answer is yes. :)

This is an interesting question, and might not be too difficult to do, but let me make sure I understand correctly:

You want an option in each gallery that, if the gallery is set to public, you can still restrict keywords to your homepage, and not the global site?

What about full-text searching? Do you want that disabled globally, too, or just keywords?

Do you want us to tell Google not to index it, either, or do you want Google to still index?

Somewhat correct. For myself, the simplest is to have a single checkbox for my account that restrict keywords and caption searching only to my homepage (i.e. all public galleries in my account). Google would also not index my pages.

A single site-wide option would be simplest but I could live with the option on a per-gallery basis.

Originally Posted by onethumb

Any other gotchas you can think of?

New and old galleries should default to global searching (i.e. what it currently is).

I find it great that smugmug actually listens and works with the community to improve the business.
-J

[4thinker]

Originally Posted by onethumb

Here at smugmug, everything has a chance of being implemented, so your answer is yes. :)

This is an interesting question, and might not be too difficult to do, but let me make sure I understand correctly:

You want an option in each gallery that, if the gallery is set to public, you can still restrict keywords to your homepage, and not the global site?

What about full-text searching? Do you want that disabled globally, too, or just keywords?

Do you want us to tell Google not to index it, either, or do you want Google to still index?

Any other gotchas you can think of?

Don

Don, thank you for looking at this. This issue is the one reason I am considering leaving Smugmug. I can't have my family's photos searchable by Google or any other sites on the web. I've never liked the fact that I have no control over that. The new keywords feature is cool, except that it was turned on without me knowing about it and it got my Smugmug site indexed by Google using my last name.

Now all anyone needs to do to see my family's private photos is to Google me. I'm not happy about that at all. I'd love to see a global setting that allows me to control whether Google and other search engines can index my galleries.

In the mean time, is there a way for me to change Smugmug usernames without having my old URL point to my new one?