Attachments & SEO

[motty07]

Hi

I'm converting an existing travel site to Wordpress/Genesis.

The site has around 500 pages, and each page has an average of 5 images (say 2500 in total).

I like the way the gallery works. Basically it creates an attachment page for each image used in the gallery where readers can view the description plus any other info I choose to add - photographer credits, creative commons license, EXIF data etc.

However I suspect there will be a problem with SEO.

Effectively the default settings will create a site as follows:

500 pages of rich content
2500 page of thin content (the attachment pages) - will consist of a photo, description (probably a sentence), plus some EXIF info, credits etc.

ie vast majority of site will be thin content - and I suspect this would not be good in the eyes of Google.

Do you think I'm right about this? There is some coverage of this issue on the net, but not as much as I thought there would be given the amount of sites using Wordpress - kind of leads me to suspect I may be wrong?

The Yoast SEO plugin seems to identify the issue but the solution offered is a 301 redirect - ie the attachment pages don't exist effectively (why not noindex instead?). I'm sure Yoast knows what he's doing too.

Genesis SEO doesn't seem to address the issue at all.

Would appreciate your thoughts and any solutions?

Thanks in advance