Covers the delivery and display of photographs, graphics and other visual elements.
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Are images with non-standard extensions (such as “.ashx”, instead of “.png” or “.jpg”) bad for SEO?
Certain CMS' running on IIS like Sitecore do not give image files appropriate file formats like .png or .jpg by default, but instead link to images as:
<img src="/media/Some Folder/EX-IMG.ashx" ...
0
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1answer
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Is it possible to use both align and size parameters for images in MoinMoin?
I'm getting a 500 Internal Server Error if I try something like {{attachment:image.png|alt text|width=100 align="left"}}, both in the wiki I am actually trying to edit (https://live.gnome.org/) and in ...
0
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0answers
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Looking for a gallery script with multi-file upload [closed]
I'm looking for a very particular script. Not just any gallery script. What I'm hoping for is the following:
Upload images without using the POST method or can POST within an iframe but cannot ...
1
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0answers
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How to pull in photos from an RSS feed on another wordpress.com site [migrated]
I'm creating a "portal" (wordpress.org) site and I want to pull in some photos from a related wordpress.com blog site. There is a cartoon on each blog post and I want to display the latest one in my ...
2
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5answers
191 views
Is there any SEO problem using an alt=“” for a image?
According to this article, it's perfectly valid to use alt="" on purely decorative images. For example, if there is a graph showing some data which is detailed on the the page contents, any alt value ...
3
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2answers
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Using .htaccess for proper indexing/SEO of timthumb images
I don't know a whole lot about the intricacies of SEO so I was wondering if someone here could provide some insight to this problem.
When you use the php script timthumb on a website, it means images ...
0
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2answers
43 views
Website images stop loading
I have a website at www.bdgregg.com.
The website was once hosted on a different server. I have moved the site to a new server. Everything remains the same as far as site content, images etc. However ...
1
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1answer
37 views
Image SEO with overlaid text?
I have a single image that I am using repeatedly with different text overlaid. If you hover over this image it will also give you a tooltip with more information. Of course, the text overlaid could ...
1
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1answer
44 views
Is is okay to use press kit images with attribution in my personal blog?
First up, not sure if this question is correct at WebMasters kindly redirect if it's not.
I have a personal (non-commercial) blog where I write about technology and programming etc. I was wondering if ...
4
votes
1answer
104 views
What is the best way to optimise a site with lots of images for a Retina display?
I am going to have a website which will deal with a lot of images. What is the best way to optimise them for Retina display without having much of an impact on website loading times?
There seems to ...
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3answers
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Using one document for all images
I have some icons around 100x100. I typically save out each icon as a .png but I wanted to know if I included all the .pngs in one document would it be ideal and improve load time? If one document ...
0
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0answers
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What are royalty free image? [closed]
If I search for royalty free images there are many sites.
Cracked.com uses them a lot.
In one hand it says royalty free. On the other hand they mention $1 per image and stuff.
So what's the catch?
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2answers
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Favicon Compatible Resolutions and File Size for various Devices
With the many uses for favicons nowadays (new tab page, bookmarks, url bar, IE pin to taskbar etc,) what sizes should I be including in my favicon.ico file?
I'm using Converticon and thought the ...
2
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1answer
106 views
Image Rankings on Google Image Search (Images hosted on external sites)
I saw that when I stopped uploading images to my own server my content on Google images disappeared. I stopped uploading images to my server for two main reasons: Traffic and Storage space on the VPS.
...
4
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2answers
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Duplicate alt tags in a big gallery
Our website mainly consists of galleries, while usually smaller, they sometimes reach over 100 images per post.
As each image is bound to the same topic, they are automatically named after the post ...
0
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0answers
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Joomla .htaccess - images gone [closed]
I opened a new folder inside my Joomla 2.5 installation "Images" folder called (/images/Icons). In it was a google maps icon and a .htaccess file with this content
Header set ...
1
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2answers
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Workaround a huge number of image links on a page? [SEO]
I have a page that often contains large image galleries displayed with thumbnails linking to the actual images. They are then rerouted with JavaScript to open an overlay gallery instead, but I noticed ...
1
vote
1answer
105 views
How to make image only website friendly to googlebot? [duplicate]
so I making this portfolio site for some artist. She draw all the menus and texts manually(on paper), then scanned, some "post processing" in photoshop and that's how the whole layout was created.
...
4
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3answers
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Help with choosing the best URLS for a Picture Blog site on Wordpress
I would like to select the best SEO friendly URL format for my WordPress based picture site. But I am not sure about the impact of SEO in the following formats. In other words I want a better format ...
2
votes
1answer
55 views
Google Advanced Image search - Appear in cc search
How do I mark that my images are public domain and can appear in google images - advanced search with option "usage rights:free to use, share, or modify even commercially".
I want to mark my images ...
1
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1answer
202 views
Content Sliders (Nivo Slider) and SEO
With sliders like "nivo slider" it slices the image up into segments to perform its transitions. This means you cannot put "real" text over the top like you can with other basic transition sliders ...
2
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2answers
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Optimizing large scale e-commerce sites
I have a few questions regarding optimizing large scale e-commerce sites with getting indexed. Over 1 million pages.
Should you optimize images for e-stores with over 1 million product images?
...
7
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1answer
153 views
Does adding external images or javascript to a website affect its SEO?
When adding images to your site, is it bad to use an image located on another site:
<img src='http://www.some_other_site.com/image.jpg'>
The same goes for javascript, is it bad to link to ...
2
votes
1answer
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Why sometimes images load top-bottom, and sometimes by “enhancing” resolution?
In everyday use of internet, i notice that most times, any image that loads, loads by "growing" itself vertically, from top to bottom,. that is, you first see only a few rows of pixels, and it ...
3
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2answers
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Better Image Hosting for MediaWiki
We're using MediaWiki and writing a lot of articles / tutorials that require images / screenshots. Image management in MediaWiki is painful. I was hoping I could use something like Dropbox to store ...
2
votes
1answer
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How to get google and bing to index original image, not thumbnail?
I've read this post Make google index the actual image not the thumbnail but my case is a little different.
I have over a thousand images, in many different directories, with many different names, ...
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3answers
334 views
Directory structure for a website (js/css/img folders)
For years I've been using the following directory structure for my websites:
<root>
->js
->jquery.js
->tooltip.js
->someplugin.js
->css
->styles.css
...
0
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2answers
88 views
Copyright of pictures upload to a website?
I want to run a website like stock photos. How can I be sure that the uploader is real copyright holder of the picture? Is it possible to leave the responsibility of this copyright claim to the ...
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1answer
541 views
How to allow Google Images search to by pass hotlink protection?
I saw Google Images seems to index my images only if hotlink protection is off. [*]
I use anyway hotlink protection because I don't like the idea of people sucking my bandwidth, i simply use this ...
3
votes
1answer
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images within noscript
Note: My question is not about javascript
Note: My question is how to make the HTML accessible to search engines.
Note: My question is not about hiding texts, is on block loading of ...
6
votes
2answers
179 views
SEO and external sites that serve responsive images (like Re-SRC)
Re-SRC is a tool that allows you to automatically serve responsive images for your website from their cloud servers. It delivers a new image file each time the browser window (viewport) is resized.
...
2
votes
1answer
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Images not indexed by google since moving to cdn
Last week I moved all the images on coffeeandvanilla.com to a cdn( maxcdn.coffeeandvanilla.com ).
The problem I'm having is that although the sitemap—generated by Yoast WordPress SEO plugin—points ...
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0answers
132 views
Is it possible to animate JPGs? [closed]
This may sound ridiculous, but I'm curious as to how this image on imgur is animated: http://i.imgur.com/VnPVF.jpg and yet still appears to be a JPG file, not a GIF.
Is it server side? It's viewing ...
0
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0answers
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Facebook cover different file size for page cover [closed]
As per my knowledge, Facebook reduces the file size of cover if the image is bigger than 50 kb. Facebook says that it's standard cover is 851px × 315px having 50kb or less file size. But recently, ...
0
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2answers
174 views
How to progressively display images on websites
I want to display images on my websites just like Facebook and other websites display images now - progressively i.e a complete blurred image first and then the whole sharp images loads.
I am not ...
4
votes
2answers
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What is best way to manage all images in a big project, inline images, background images, css sprite images?
How do you manage all images in a big project, inline images, background images, css sprite images?
Do you follow any naming convention?
Do you create sub-folders to manage images?
In a big project ...
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vote
2answers
134 views
Does hiding images on 404 error affect SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO (or other) problems with a 404?
I have a dynamic website that allows registered users to upload and display images on the their profile page. As each user may upload ...
0
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2answers
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Using scaled images or using same image everywhere?
I have an image lets say 300px*300px
I am using 3 different sizes of it on my site 100px*100px, 200px*200px, 300px*300px.
What will be the best for SEO.
Using same images everywhere or using 3 ...
10
votes
1answer
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When email newsletters include Base64 encoded images, do email clients see them immediately?
When I send a newsletter with remote URLs most email clients will ask the user if he wants to load remote resources inside the message.
If I send an email using images with Base64 encoded strings as ...
3
votes
1answer
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Where can I get loading .png images that together make a loading spinner? [closed]
I have been googling for a while and am not finding anything useful other than .gif images. But due to the technology I am using, I need 2 or more .png images that together look like an animation.
...
3
votes
0answers
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CSS rounded corners around image [closed]
I have tried several ways to get rounded corners around images without success. The best I got was using the image as background and applying the round corners style to the div as in this picture.
...
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1answer
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403 Forbidden on Images on my subdomains
I am pulling my hair out after multiple back and forths with 1and1 support both via email and telephone.
I've setup multiple subdomains via the 1and1 control panel and that looks to work fine. The ...
2
votes
4answers
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How to include high resolution version of thumbnail
I'm running a tube site that has a thumbnail for each post/video (running via Wordpress, 500k posts). When I first created the thumbnails they were a fairly large size, around 640px in width each and ...
2
votes
0answers
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Mysterious 403 errors on images with proper permissions [closed]
Recently I have been trying to install a forum on my website. At first I was having an issue with the forums alone but then I noticed it was occurring elsewhere on my website as well.
When I have ...
0
votes
3answers
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images based website speed
I have a wordpress site which 90% is based on images.
I've installed Wp-Super-Cache, now it seems to load a little bit faster.
I've made a speed test on Pingdom Tools:
Page size
4.7MB
Load time
...
0
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0answers
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wordpress website based on big resolution images [closed]
I have a wordpress website based on lare resolution images like 1920px wide and I really want to improve the website loading speed.
I've installed a cache plugin for wordpress, but I want more ...
0
votes
1answer
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Image Appears Small on website but not in photoshop
Sorry for the lame title..
I bought a template off template montser and I am trying to change some text on the header. The text is stored as a png image. I opened the psd file in photoshop and ...
2
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1answer
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Where can I find graphics to use in printable worksheets I create and make available for download? [closed]
I'm looking to put up a website with worksheets that I make and they will need to have graphics in them. The worksheets will be available for download for free. Where can I find images that I can ...
2
votes
2answers
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Web pages with mixed ownership photos
I have a photo website. 15% of the photos belong to approved registered users. They agree my terms about uploading their images in my web pages. I include a photographer credit on right bottom corner.
...
0
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2answers
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SEO with duplicate content [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I have a nature photography site with multiple types of photo galleries. Each photo and ...
