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joebloggscity
joebloggscity
Photo Albums & Searches
Sep 27 2010, 11:37 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 27 2010, 11:37 AM EDT
hi

my site: www.thecelticwiki.com

in the searches in Wetpaint, if you have any photo albums, the albums will not appear in the search results.

My site has over 100 albums and we expect to have double or treble that in the next year or so.

Can you have it such that albums appear in the search results? We really need it....
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dcollins52
1. RE: Photo Albums & Searches
Sep 27 2010, 12:50 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 27 2010, 12:50 PM EDT
"hi

my site: www.thecelticwiki.com

in the searches in Wetpaint, if you have any photo albums, the albums will not appear in the search results.

My site has over 100 albums and we expect to have double or treble that in the next year or so.

Can you have it such that albums appear in the search results? We really need it.... "
i know that searching HERE you can see photos... but albums, idk.....
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Losa78
Losa78
2. RE: Photo Albums & Searches
Sep 27 2010, 1:13 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 27 2010, 1:13 PM EDT
I have just checked and as far as i know, there is no way to search for photo albums from inside a wiki.
In my opinion, this is less of a big deal than it seems to be, because the search engine on the wikis (with all due respect) tends to be really, really bad (it only helped me a couple of times out of many, many more), so you probably wouldn't find your albums anyway.

What I suggest is that you do your searches on Google. It's actually much better than the search engines inside the wikis.
In your particular case, search "thecelticwiki (name of the album) album". You're bound to get results, even though it's not guaranteed. I tried and I did: I got a specific search result that led me straight into the content of the album I had searched. Good luck to you!

Keep in mind that a similar method may not work on smaller wikis which don't appear as easily on Google searches, though...
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joebloggscity
joebloggscity
3. RE: Photo Albums & Searches
Sep 27 2010, 3:41 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 27 2010, 3:41 PM EDT
how do i do a google search for my site? Do you find this valuable?    
Losa78
Losa78
4. RE: Photo Albums & Searches
Sep 27 2010, 4:14 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 27 2010, 4:14 PM EDT
"how do i do a google search for my site?"
Just go to www.google.com and type the search string I provided on my previous post in the search box. Search "thecelticwiki (name of the album) album". Your wiki seems to show up really well on Google searches.

But... are you really asking me this?... I never thought anybody could even access the Internet at all and still not know this...
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dcollins52
5. RE: Photo Albums & Searches
Sep 27 2010, 4:40 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 27 2010, 4:40 PM EDT
"Just go to www.google.com and type the search string I provided on my previous post in the search box. Search "thecelticwiki (name of the album) album". Your wiki seems to show up really well on Google searches.

But... are you really asking me this?... I never thought anybody could even access the Internet at all and still not know this..."
LOL agreed.. then again... i shouldnt talk.. i couldnt find out how to edit my post.. :D
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joebloggscity
joebloggscity
6. RE: Photo Albums & Searches
Sep 28 2010, 5:42 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 28 2010, 5:42 AM EDT
No Losa78, that's not my point... you can put something in the search boxes but it won't necessarily come up with the goods, just seeing if there is a better way of searchign via google.

It's not a solution.

As per my original post, if possible it would better if Albums could appear int he search results in the wetpaint sites. I may know that we can do better via google but random browsers who come to our site won't know this and will miss out.

thx to all.
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Losa78
Losa78
7. RE: Photo Albums & Searches
Sep 28 2010, 7:38 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 28 2010, 7:38 AM EDT
"No Losa78, that's not my point... you can put something in the search boxes but it won't necessarily come up with the goods, just seeing if there is a better way of searchign via google.

It's not a solution.

As per my original post, if possible it would better if Albums could appear int he search results in the wetpaint sites. I may know that we can do better via google but random browsers who come to our site won't know this and will miss out.

thx to all."
I agree that Google may not necessarily come up with the goods, and that's why I said on my previous post that you were bound to get results, but it was not guaranteed.

Now I see you meant to ask about ways to do advanced searches on Google which would improve the results... I really didn't want to believe you were asking me how to do a simple search, but that's what it still seemed like...
So, no, I don't know of any advanced search ways that would help significantly, except maybe filter it to show results on just the specific domain of your wiki.

And I know you still want the wikis themselves to provide an engine to search and find albums, but I was just suggesting a way around that, which could even be suggested on each particular wiki for random browsers to do at least until Wetpaint (eventually) includes that feature.

Just sayin'...
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joebloggscity
joebloggscity
8. RE: Photo Albums & Searches
Sep 28 2010, 12:13 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 28 2010, 12:13 PM EDT
Losa78 don't get me wrong, I do very much appreciate your replies and i take your answers with the humour you wanted (we can't all be too serious).

I just hope admin & developers can help in adding the albums to search results in a next release. Hopefully won't be too difificult...

thx to all...
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Losa78
Losa78
9. RE: Photo Albums & Searches
Sep 28 2010, 12:30 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 28 2010, 12:30 PM EDT
"Losa78 don't get me wrong, I do very much appreciate your replies and i take your answers with the humour you wanted (we can't all be too serious)."
Well, indeed I tend to take things lightly and with the humor possible around here, mostly because this is all about just quite idle stuff such as internet forums and wikis, not really important issues.

However, in this case I actually didn't specifically mean any humor. Honest. I don't want you to think i was mocking or ridiculing you in *any* way at all about how easy it was to do a Google search. In fact, I even thought it could be *you* who was teasing me by asking how to do such a simple and obvious thing.

Either way, I see that was not the case now and we kind of didn't understand each other too well. I get this stuff every now and then because English is not my first language and also because this is simply written communication which can easily lead to misunderstandings. It's all good. Your suggestion has surely been noted.
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