Using a lightbox
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Using a lightbox type thing for our new website (you click on an image and then get a bigger version of image).
Is there any best practices SEO wise for this and any no no's I should be aware of?
It's all hard coded so not going the normal way via wordpress of using thumbnails then the larger original image as you click on the thumbnail, using two separate images- this sound to you guys?
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So I redirect the large lightbox image to the page url?
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In the Yoast SEO Plugin there is a setting under Permalinks, that says this.
Redirect attachment URL's to parent post URL?
"Attachments to posts are stored in the database as posts, this means they're accessible under their own URL's if you do not redirect them, enabling this will redirect them to the post they were attached to."
So it whether you're using images in WP as normal attachments or in a lightbox, I would still check this box and have them redirected. I don't know all the details around this but this is what I do.
Tried to attach an image to show you, but not sure if it worked.
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