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How do I have Google image search link the image to a different page?

I want some images be indexed with specific page URLs. When users click them from image search I would like it to take them to my chosen URL instead of place where Google found that image. For example,...
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How to restore deleted images from a WordPress backup without overwriting new content?

Our WordPress site has thousands of images and most of them are not used for any content anyomore. The images take about 90% of our total storage so I wanted to get rid of them. I used a plugin ...
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Fair Use of the thumbnail version of thousands of images from a third party? [duplicate]

I would like to include on my website the thumbnail version of thousands of images created by a third party, which I am trying to contact to ask permission, with no success. I would link from the ...
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Schema.org type for image galleries on a page

I have articles on my site that can contain one or more photo galleries that are related to the article's content. The schema.org/ImageGallery is defined as a "Web page type: Image gallery page" and ...
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How do I control which 'Google My Business' images show in the Google search results?

In Google My Business I want to change the photos that are marked with the red and blue squares in the image below, and specifically which forms in the Google My Business admin relate to the photo ...
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Images from the site doesn't show up in Google image search, does it need an image sitemap?

When my Client searches with keywords at Google no images of the example.com website show in SERPs. We gave alt text for every images but didn't get any results. Now, I need to know that is there any ...
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Effective and cheap way of hosting images [closed]

I'm making a website that uses mostly images, they take up to 150gb disk space. My VPS is only 40GB SSD and I'm looking for a way to host images elsewhere. How can I achieve that? What are the ways - ...
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Uploading images for Wordpress in AWS Elastic Beanstalk application

How do I go about uploading images in an AWS Elastic Beanstalk Wordpress Application? I am using the high-availability method from this tutorial. It's a large WooCommerce website and I have 2gigs ...
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Which one should I use for SEO proposes? <div>text</div> or <img alt=“text” />

I know that the alt="" attribute is recommended for SEO propososes, but I also heard that put the description inside a div and hide with text-indent:-9999px or font-size:0; is a good practice for SEO. ...
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Correct ALT text for Screenshot Images (Bulk)

We have a downloads library containing about 22,000 items (pages) and for each of the pages, there is a section of screenshots showing the download in action. Currently, we can't go through almost ...
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Will using a pseudo element to place background image on top of an image tag for SEO value have negative consequences

Will using a pseudo element like before to place background image on top of an img element for SEO value have negative consequences? The reason being we want the flexibility of an element with a ...
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How essential is the H1 element for SEO?

I'm rolling out a new webpage, and the logo of the product includes the text of the brand name. Aesthetically, the page would look better with just the logo and subtext, but that would mean omitting ...
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Images are not indexed in google search console [duplicate]

I have submitted my sitemap which contains web pages and images. 78 web pages and 59 images are submitted. The web pages are indexed (71 out of 78), but images are not indexed. Why does that happen. ...
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Does html5 picture tag affect SEO?

I know when using <img> tag, the alt & title are using for SEO. But is <picture> tag is better for SEO with the attribute srcset? If yes how?
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How to replace gallery images while keeping them in the image search results?

I have an old gallery on my website that has indexed images on search engine results for specific keywords. I would like to replace the image that appears on the search engine results with a new one ...
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Would compressing a PNG more than once reduce the number of colors or affect something else?

For a website I control that sells consumer goods, fast page performance is important, especially for potential customers on mobile devices. Therefore, we want our images to be as small as possible ...
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Does randomly changing the image every refresh hurt the SEO of the page?

The web page has an img tag which displays an image of an eagle. However, it displays a different eagle (from a set of five eagles) every time. Does it affect the SEO of the page? Joomla has a ...
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Is it good practice to include alt tags on all images

… including decorative images such as navigation arrows and social media buttons? I understand that my "content images" should be alt-tagged appropriately. But should I be tagging decorative images ...
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Does a cache busting fingerprint in image file names hurt SEO rankings?

The Ruby on Rails asset pipeline automatically adds a fingerprint to assets (JS, CSS, and other files in the assets folder including images) upon deployment so that cached assets are automatically ...
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How do I stop Google featured snippets mixing my content up with another website?

On searching for 'fiduciary duty' I found that an image from a page on my site is shown alongside text from another site in a featured snippet. Search for 'fiduciary duty' in Google. The featured ...
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Is it good for SEO if I attach a picture on my Tumblr text post using HTML?

I have a Tumblr blog and I'm using a custom domain for the Tumblr blog. For blogging I need to add images in my text blog. If I use <img src... HTML code to attach a picture, will it refer to my ...
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Will deleting unused images in WordPress effect SEO?

How would it effect SEO, if I were to delete unused images from the website? (WordPress)
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How to change which image from website is shown in Google search result?

Can anyone tell me how Google decides which image to use when it shows an image with the search results (as is the case with mobile search, sometimes)? If you look at these mobile search results … … ...
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Will Google remove content such as images with canonical headers to other non-indexed content?

I've set a canonical (.htaccess) header from an image to another one. For instance: site.com/image-small.jpg has a canonical header to: site.com/image.jpg (Original image). However the website ...
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Images sitemap not indexed

For a website, I have uploaded two normal sitemaps and two image sitemaps (one for each language), respecting the structure given by Google. While the normal sitemaps are indexed normally, only a few ...
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Managing images on an open wiki platform

I'm developing a wiki page using MediaWiki and there are a few ways of inplementing images into wiki pages such as uploading them on the website and uploading them on external websites it potentially ...
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SEO Dynamic Image filename

I have product images on website. In 'images' directory they are present as 1.jpg, 2.jpg and so on. 1, 2 are product ids from database and therefore I have put images name as product id (as it would ...
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Google Search Console "Indexed Pages" spike and traffic loss after image CDN switch

Back on 2/7, we changed CDNs from Amazon Cloudfront to StackPath for the images on our popular sports website. We ticked off the "use canonical headers" option when doing so. Starting on 2/12, we ...
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Can search engines read title attributes that are modified using jScript?

I'm using a custom tooltip library, to view my titles and image alts. The way an image or link is rendered without this script is: <img src="URL HERE" title="TITLE HERE" height="123" width="321"&...
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Can images have the same name?

Will it harm SEO to have images with the same name? In the process of bulk optimizing images for the web and im wondering how the images should be renamed, is it ok to have imagename-1, imagename-2 ...
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Prevent indexing of image or file

I understand that you can do the following to generally prevent images or pages from getting indexed. Add to the page's meta section: <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> Edit the robots....
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Image Optimization : Can i use same image for thumbnail(180*110) and small thubmail (80*55) in web

Currently using thumbnail image 180*110 size for album and same image but separate size 80*55 for playlist. Now, my questions are the following: For SEO purpose need to optimizing for image can i use ...
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Delivering the optimal image experience to all from website regardless of device

I was deeply involved in other work and out of the blue, the co-owner of the site informs me that the website isn't 100% right for all people. While he isn't technically inclined compared to me, this ...
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SEO impact of hosting large images externally

As I have lot's of images on page and small hosting space, I would like to host them somewhere else. I've read that it can have negative aspect on SEO, but what if I make small high compressed ...
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What is the ideal URL format to use for images served at multiple sizes

I am building responsive image functionality for a site (written ASP.NET MVC, although that is almost irrelevant here). My question is not technical, but about the most semantic way to serve images at ...
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Does Google use canonical urls for images

A few years ago, MaxCDN published a post on Better Image SEO with Canonical Headers in which they suggest specifying a canonical link in the HTTP header. Google's documentation on this, however, ...
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Using licensed image in a blog

I would like to use some images which are not mine in my blog (which is in development stage). Since I don't own the image I searched for images on Google which are labeled for reuse with ...
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Google Image Search View Image Redirect

If you Google site:fansshare.com, select an image then click "View image" you won't go directly to the image ex: http://www.fansshare.com/image.jpg. Instead, they have it setup so you are redirected ...
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Will overlapping images without alt tags hurt SEO?

I have a product listing page with multiple products and each product image has an overlapping image on it. It would be like this example where the basketball is the product image and the question ...
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For SEO should an image name contain page title (which gives more description to image)

I am creating a website using wix.com. I would like to know if a web page has images in it . Should the image name and alt name name can have some repetitive information derived the page title. ...
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What kind of process to optimize images for the Web? [closed]

I always optimized images for the Web using Photoshop and some simply steps: dpi changed to 70 save for the web jpeg with quality very high or high depending on the final weigth of the image ...
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Title attribute on image inside a tag

Is there a reason to put a title attribute on an image (img tag) if this is inside a link (a tag) already with a title ? (said that you already put the alt attribute to the img tag)
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CSS/Design files aren't loading [closed]

I've transferred my OpenCart site to a new hosting. I've followed every step from this tutorial (https://isenselabs.com/posts/step-by-step-opencart-migration-to-a-new-server). My transfer is complete ...
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Is it OK to ignore image title attributes when it comes to SEO?

I've read on Yoast that it's OK to ignore the image title, but not the alt field from a SEO perspective. However, the SEO expert in the company insist it's highly required for SEO. Who is right? Is ...
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Impact of storing image sources into custom data attributes

I am working on a project which has a huge amount of images. Some pages reach up to 15MB of images alone. Naturally before even thinking of putting something like that online I want to reduce the ...
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Images not being shown in Google Image Search after redesign

We launched a new website design late February and since then 99% of our large product images do not show up on Google Image Search. We monitored the Image impressions after the launch of the new ...
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User contributed images on a HTTPS site without mixed content warnings

I have a forum where, like most forums, users can post images. I've set up HTTPS across the site, but of course most external images are linked using HTTP, not HTTPS. So loading the forum over HTTPS ...
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Is there a way to specify an image for Bing to use in search snippets

Bing will sometimes display an image from a webpage as part of the snippet when listing that page in search results, but oftentimes it seems to be grabbing an image from the page with "logo" in the ...
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Is the directory image a relevant concern for SEO?

Drupal stores images in: /sites/default/files/whatever.png Would it be better if I instead could find a way to have: /images/whatever.png OR even: /whatever.png Is there any way to know for sure ...
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Facebook image for website doesn't change

I am quite new to these SEO and all SEO aspects of social media. I just haved changed title text, description and image URL for websites homepage, but when I try to share it on Facebook, I still get ...
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