I was getting many errors on Google Webmaster about duplicate pages, etc. I did some investigation and discovered that with jAlbum/Skins the following should work in the Header section.

<link rel="canonical" href="${albumUrl}${pageUrl}">

This is produced in the header section:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://gallery.soft-focus-imagining.com/index.html">

This sort of worked OK but I was still getting errors in Google. On investigation, because Tiger skins use Lightbox, and the way that Lightbox works, I had to drop the "index.html", so I checked and set the following:

<link rel="canonical" href="${albumUrl}}">

Unfortunately, that didn't work, and I had this in the header section :

<link rel="canonical" href="}">

Is there any chance of getting this fixed, and/or maybe you might also consider putting this officially in the skins.

Many Thanks - Nigel.

Very good catch.

Unfortunately, it still didn't work. You now get:

<link rel="canonical" href="">

Tried your suggestion, but no matter which site I test this on I always get the same result.

<link rel="canonical" href="">

Because the Tiger series (and others) use the Lightbox method for photo display that "simple" fix doesn't work. It took me some time to actually get this working correctly.

I'm going to test my "fix" some more and when I believe it's good I'll post in the Forum what I did in case someone else needs it.

I know this is where we disagree, but sadly Google is the big dog of web searches. Friends etc I can notify, it's the rest of the world I'm trying to get too!

It all seems to be working correctly

Laza,

I did try that in the past and I had the same issues reported by Google. According to resources on-line the line has to look like this:

 <link rel="canonical" href="https://yoursite.com/your-page-url"

I did try

<link rel="canonical" href="${albumURL}/${pageUrl}">

BUT the albumURL only worked for level 0, level 1 down it was missing in action!

This is probably more complex than needed but I'm not a programmer but I do understand programming principles. Also, according to the on-line help using Lightbox was an issue because it flattened to a single level all the graphics files. So with on-line AI help I came up with this to resolve both issues. (Don't laugh at me to hard, please!!)

<link rel="canonical" href="https://Your.Website-URL.com/${currentFolder.pathFromRoot}<ja:if test="${currentFolder.pathFromRoot}" value=""></ja:if><ja:else>/</ja:else>">
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "ImageGallery",
  "name": "${albumTitle}",
  "description": "${albumDescription}",
  "url": "https://Your.Website-URL.com/${currentFolder.pathFromRoot}<ja:if test="${currentFolder.pathFromRoot}" value=""></ja:if><ja:else>/</ja:else>",
  "hasPart": [
    <ja:fileiterator>
    {
      "@type": "ImageObject",
      "name": "${title}",
      "description": "${comment}",
      "contentUrl": "https://Your.Website-URL.com/${currentFolder.pathFromRoot}<ja:if test="${currentFolder.pathFromRoot}" value=""></ja:if><ja:else>/</ja:else>${fileName}",
      "thumbnail": {
        "@type": "ImageObject",
        "contentUrl": "https://Your.Website-URL.com/${currentFolder.pathFromRoot}<ja:if test="${currentFolder.pathFromRoot}" value=""></ja:if><ja:else>/</ja:else>thumbs/${fileName}"
      }
    }${ja:iflast}${else},${ja:endif}
    </ja:fileiterator>
  ]
}
</script>

And this created the correct href= for every page and all are unique to that page.

Edited by: nigel-aves on 28 Aug 2026, 09:55

Edited by: nigel-aves on 28 Aug 2026, 10:17