Covers the delivery and display of photographs, graphics and other visual elements.
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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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2
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5answers
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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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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 ...
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 ...
1
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1answer
537 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
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1answer
342 views
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 ...
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 ...
2
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2answers
134 views
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.
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6
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1answer
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Force Facebook to use large images when sharing my page
When I share content from my site it posts an image to Facebook as it should. I have noticed that the image is small, roughly 100x100 at best. Yet on other people's posts of content from other sites ...
7
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2answers
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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 ...
0
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2answers
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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 ...
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1answer
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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 ...
2
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3answers
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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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1answer
41 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
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1answer
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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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3answers
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How can I replicate Google Page Speed's lossless image compression as part of my workflow?
I love that Google's Page Speed is able to losslessly compress a lot of my images, but I'd love to make it part of my workflow, prior to uploading a site and making it live.
Is there anything I can ...
1
vote
2answers
117 views
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 ...
22
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5answers
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“Progressive” JPEG: Why do many web sites avoid rendering JPEGs that way? Pros, cons?
When JPEG images are used by a web page, they are typically rendered top-down ... but they can also be rendered using a mode called progressive JPEG, where the image starts out full-size, but blurry, ...
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2answers
86 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 ...
2
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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 ...
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
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 ...
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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
101 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.
...
7
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7answers
298 views
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
515 views
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 ...
4
votes
3answers
86 views
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 ...
4
votes
1answer
342 views
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 ...
3
votes
3answers
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My site is getting popular, bandwidth expensive
I'm running a (small) image hosting site which has been getting a little bit of traction lately (2,000 to 5,000 visitors a day, spikes up to 10,000). It's hosted on Linode and I've already run out of ...
2
votes
1answer
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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 ...
1
vote
1answer
191 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
votes
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?
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7
votes
1answer
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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 ...
3
votes
2answers
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What zoomable image viewers are there for websites? [closed]
What zoomable image viewers are there? By these I mean tools that one can embed in a website to let a user zoom in on and pan around a high res image, a canonical example being http://www.zoomify.com/ ...
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2answers
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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.
...
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 ...
6
votes
2answers
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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.
...
2
votes
5answers
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Legal to modify game art and screenshots for my own site?
I'm currently working on building a video game related website, and I'm wondering if it's legal to use screenshots or concept art that game studios post on their official sites. At most I would want ...
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, ...
7
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3answers
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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
...
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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 ...
10
votes
2answers
1k views
Image CDN with API?
My company uses flickr and picasa web albums as poor man's content delivery networks (CDN) for image hosting, but I'm curious if anyone has any recommendations on any other services that might be ...
2
votes
3answers
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wget - download external images [closed]
I'm using wget -A to download images from a page.
This works fine, when images are hosted on the same domain as the page.
But this won't download images hotlinked from other pages (e.g. imageshack)
...
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0answers
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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
87 views
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
172 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 ...
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vote
2answers
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Image libraries sites to download pro images with no credits expiration policy
I found professional image libraries sites like http://www.istockphoto.com or http://www.dreamstime.com are quite useful to add some cool images to a website either when filling its contents or when ...
