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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" ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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1answer
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Lazyloading images and SEO
Lazyloading images with a noscript fallback. Should I expect any damage in the SERPs?
The site is completely thumbnail based. Also should I put a smaller image size in the noscript fallback to ...
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Does an image's filename affect its seo?
When I name my image files, I always use a descriptive file name such as red-mercedes-slk.jpg. I've always done this without thinking, but I wondered if it actually benefits my rankings in any way.
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Do image backlinks count as backlinks?
If i have lots of images appearing tumblr blogs, the sort of tumblogs with very little text just reams and reams of images for people to browse through (example - http://whereisthecool.com/). If my ...
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Alt attributes for dynamically generated images
I have an image gallery for a commerce website which consists of several small thumbnail images and one large image. All of the images are photographs of the same product.
What would be the most ...
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Make google index the actual image not the thumbnail
In a website, we have a JavaScript that opens an image when people click on the thumbnail, it seems like Google only indexes the thumbnail not the actual image with real dimensions, I was wondering if ...
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Will delay loading images hurt SEO?
Related - SEO for naming images
In an effort to increase the perceived speed of a heavy homepage, I'm loading a number of the heavier images via javascript on document.ready. I'm using a blank gif ...
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Best semantic structure & SEO optimised approach for image replacement for badges?
In the past, I extensively used CSS image replacement techniques for SEO purposes and to separate presentation from content.
But from my reading of the Google Webmaster guidelines and other ...
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Does having images in an article based website is more likely to do good in seo or without images?
Is an article-based website more likely to do good in seo with or without images?
What are the benefits of having images in terms of seo?
Would stackoverflow sites perform better if there were ...
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SEO for naming images
I have a website with many images embedded within articles. I do not want to miss traffic by image search. It is easier to save images with numbers, but will this affect SEO rank? I mean image search ...
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SEO for images: can I use a different (cookieless) domain?
We want to increase the value of some of our important images by means of SEO, and
we want to start serving them from a different, i.e. cookieless, domain.
We want to go from ...
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How do I get Images for my site to Return in Google Searches
I know when I search Google for specific things I get back images underneath some sites. How do I get that to work for my site? I have even seen some sites that will return 4 or 5 images for the the ...
