Google Webmaster Tools allows users to submit a sitemap in XML format but the Juicebox gallery 'config.xml' file is not a sitemap. It simply stores the image data for the gallery.
Reading this Google Webmaster Central Blog article, I expect that Google would be able to find and index the XML file. (If it can do it for a Flash gallery, I expect it would be able to do it for a non-Flash gallery but only Google would be able to answer this with certainty.)
However, to increase the chances of your gallery being indexed by Google, you might like to implement a solution similar to the PHP script on this web page. Although the script was written for SimpleViewer rather than Juicebox, the principal is the same. The script uses the data in the XML file to populate the gallery's container div on the HTML index page with traditional <img> tags using 'alt' and 'title' attributes. The script should be able to be converted from the SimpleViewer format that it is currently in to the Juicebox format quite easily as SimpleViewer and Juicebox XML files share a similar format.

I really agree with you, i can develop galeries myself but as i will have many pictures to "offer" i never found a very good and useful gallery product with path and filenames that i choose for seo.

But they seems to prefer develop product over other products to earn money without looking to the needs of the webmasters.
I will stop also and i don't wants to buy upgrades each time they develop something else.

After Simpleviewer, Juicebox, Showkase and to morrow JuiceKase ?

Yes, i know it. It is an hack, why don't integrate a similar process in your products ?

Well it works, but when i open the gallery live there is a large gap above and below the main image, unless I click on full screen, then the gap goes. This defeats the object of the original perfect script and the fiddling gives back the time I gained by using juicebox over other gallery's.

The code source looks a bit spammy. I fetched as google in webmaster and although I don't know much about seo it's just a pile of tags and links with no structure including that I think google might turn their nose up at.

Appreciate I am asking too much and probably should be paying someone to right jquery or somesuch for my website. I want someone to tell me different and tell me how to fix the new big gaps from the changed galler now with a .php .  I do want to use this but I want some seo benefit and no risk of being penalised.

Steven,

Yes sorry, I should have checked before posting. My google chrome browser is the culprit, firefox or safari are fine and the code makes no difference. As you said.

Thank you agin for writing up the code. It works, and you spent the time writing up instructions and modifications that were correct and I went and had a hissy fit because I had something wring my end with the browser.

I like the juicebox, I will just do some more checking and considering the lite is free there is no harm in trying a few galleries within my webpage and see if they end up in google's images.

If it all works I will buy the pro, the main reason to pay would be to remove the link so my competition can't copy me too easily!! So sorry about that in advance.

Many thanks.

Entièrement d'accord !

@ dkane

If using a baseUrl, you will need to modify the SEO script to take this into account.
By default, the SEO Script looks for the 'config.xml' file to be in the same directory as the web page into which script is included.
In your case, change:

$doc->load( 'config.xml' );

... to:

$doc->load( 'gallery_arch/config.xml' );

The $imgpath variable should still point towards the gallery folder: http://www.harvardstudio.com/site/gallery_arch/

Hello Steven

thanks for the code ; it was not so hard to implement !

But if you can help me a bit more I would be very pleased.

Each gallery in my website is called from a php page (http://www.extrados.fr/spip.php?article17 for example), and displayed in an iframe :

<iframe id="gallery" src="#" width="100%" height=750  frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
<script type="text/javascript">
    document.getElementById('gallery').src = "http://www.extrados.fr/galeries2/#SOUSTITRE/index";
</script>

  (the little script is for Google translation)

#SOUSTITRE is the keyword which indicates the gallery I want, "amerique" in this example.

If i load directly the url http://www.extrados.fr/galeries2/amerique/index the SEO code works perfectly and in the page  source code I see all the links to the images and the comments.

But through the iframe, in the parent page source code you won't see that.

I've tried to replace the iframe by an include, but it doesn't work, I tried to set directly the embedded code in the parent page, does not work...

Have you any idea ?

Because if there was a way, it would be better for SEO, AND the comments would be translated when I apply Goggle translate...

Thanks.

Elisabeth

Thanks for the help on SEO. I originally posted this on another thread, but I think it's better to continue the discussion here. My question is, is it possible to make each image have a uniquely indexed page on Google? The technique described here would be having one crawlable page for the entire gallery, as opposed to individual pages for each image.

It turns out that Google already has recommendations on making AJAX pages crawlable: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/

Is there any way to integrate this with Juicebox? I know it's already possible to have unique URLs for each image by appending #1, #2, etc. It's simple to change these to #!1, #!2, etc. to fit with Google's framework. However, I am stuck when it comes to what to do next.

Hi Steven
it was a bit of work but now it's ok, even with my iframes !
Too bad I don't know PHP enough to be able to adapt the SEO script so that there is just one file which gets the good gallery's name. I had to create 24 different SEO files. But not so hard.
Thanks a lot !!!!!
Elisabeth

Try hiding the 'jbseo' <div> in your 'index.php' page using CSS such as either:

#jbseo {
    visibility: hidden;
}

... or:

#jbseo {
    display: none;
}