A question or two about keywords/phrases...

Hi everyone -

I feel like I'm flooding this forum section with questions, but I keep having new questions and I always seem to get very good information so here it goes again - and thanks in advance!

I've been working on changing keywords for images in my galleries and I've found that images within the same gallery could all have some "generic" keywords/phrases relevant to that gallery applied.

For example, in my "Lake Superior Images" gallery, it would make sense that every image in that gallery could have these keywords applied:

lake superior, lake superior photo, lake superior image, lake superior picture, lake superior sunrise, lake superior photography, picture of lake superior, image of lake superior, photo of lake superior

Then, an extra 2-3 would be added that are unique to that image - but even those 2-3 may match other photos that are from the same "set" or from the same location on another day.

1st - Is this considered "spamming" keywords, or am I on the right track? Is this redundancy of keywords a good thing or bad thing?

2nd - is "lake superior image" truly different from "image of lake superior" from a search perspective?

3rd - my keywords for the gallery page itself would also contain all of these keywords/phrases with the addition some combinations of "lake superior photo gallery'. Then, my main page keywords would be all of my gallery key words combined into one list. Is this too many - ie is the relevance of each item made smaller because I have so many?

4th - a shameless request of this forum to tell me if Im missing any big keywords for this gallery.

Thanks again!

1 - IMO, it looks too spammy for ME. Repeating a few is fine, but what I see on your page is a bit much, but I'm no expert.

2 - I don't think it matters as long as the words are there. Again, just my 2 pennies.

3 - It's a good idea to list the "keywords" on your gallery description in a way that your visitors can read, sort of what you did on your Lake Superior gallery. You might want to include some of the locations you listed on your images (...shoreline of Lake Superior at Stoney Point, just north of Duluth, Minnesota; ...near the Gooseberry River; etc). Adding the relative keywords of that image is always a good idea for both the viewer and the search engines.

4 - I don't see anything missing.

Hope this helps...