Google SEO - Am I getting SEO credit with a CNAME

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James Pratt

• March 28, 2015 02:24

I am concerned that I am not getting SEO credit with photoshelter. I used Beam in the past but was not happy with the fact it was not text or SEO friendly. So I switched to using Wordpress as my front end web site and Photoshelter as my image archive. Hence, http://james-pratt.com points to my Wordpress site and http://archive.james-pratt.com points to my Photoshelter beam site. All of that works. But when I go browse galleries or image pages at archive.james-pratt.com the URL switches to jamespratt.photoshelter.com. When I to an image search in Google it shows photoshelter, not my site. In Google Webmaster tools I am getting errors saying jamespratt.photoshelter.com is not allowed on my domain, so my pages are not getting indexed. I don't think I am getting SEO credit from my photoshelter images.

Since I switched to Wordpress as my front end my google rankings have gone WAY up, so very, very happy with Wordpress and becoming less and less impressed with photoshelter as a web site. Great image archive and way to deliver images to clients, but from what I can tell Photoshelter sucks for SEO, which they claim they are great at.

Anyone else see the same thing?

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  Scott Holstein

  • June 18, 2015 17:37

  Curious to know if Photoshelter can enlighten us with a response to this concern as I am on the verge of switching from Wordpress to Beam for my portfolio.

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  Nick Miners

  • June 18, 2015 17:48

  If you want a response from PhotoShelter, then I'd recommend contacting them directly - this forum is just for users of the software to help each other out. For support you can email support@photoshelter.com, and for feature requests you can contact them via https://support.photoshelter.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306154--How-to-Send-Us-Your-Feedback-

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  Brett Gilmour

  • November 13, 2015 00:19

  Any answer from Photoshelter on this? I'm also making WP the front end to my PS site.

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  Brett Gilmour

  • November 13, 2015 00:22

  James, first great bike dual sport brother. Next, have you had any improvement on the google side or response from PS on how to set it up?

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  James Pratt

  • November 13, 2015 03:43

  Not really anything from Photoshelter. I have had MANY more calls from my web site now that I front end it with Wordpress and use Photoshelter for the back end delivery system. Search engines love all the metadata I can put in Wordpress.

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  Rashad Penn

  • November 29, 2015 17:45

  I was actually looking for a new provider but i have so many images with photoshelter and i like a few of their features. I too have a problem with SEO when the photoshelter shows up in the search engine. I have other websites that primarily use word press and the response is atleast 80% higher vs photoshelter. I may consider doing as you did. Have word press as the front end and photoshelter at the back end.

  Thanks for this PS is good for storage and working with clients but not to good at helping you get them in the door.

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