Questions tagged [images]

Covers the delivery and display of photographs, graphics and other visual elements.

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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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Can I take images directly from Google for my affiliate site?

I have an affiliate site and I am new on this platform. I want to add images into my site. Can I take images from Google directly without changing anything for them?
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Why are jpegs used for unsuitable images in many html emails [closed]

I produce html emails on a regular basis in my work. Recently I've been baffled by the number of promotional emails I receive which use jpeg for images which would be far better served by a png or ...
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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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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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Hiding the text that is already shown in a preview image

I've got a page, in which I have a preview of a document, as JPG. Also, I've got the content read of that image. I am doing it like this, but I have no idea if this is a way Google won't hate me: &...
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Is hiding <img> tag or set it in noscript SEO friendly? [closed]

Is it possible to make img tag display:none and then add it with CSS background? For example: <div style="background-image:url('image.png')"> <img src="image.png" alt="description of ...
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Should rel=canonical be used for various images in a gallery?

I have made a portfolio website for my wife. She is an illustrator. Website contains one page with four sections - gallery, about, testimonials and a contact form. The gallery navigation is made in ...
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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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Why insert static files (CSS, images, JavaScript, ECC) in a subdomain?

Why so many big and little sites inserts static files (CSS, images, JavaScript, ECC) in a subdomain like media.example.com or s2.static.example.com? What are the advantages? Why not just a directory ...
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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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Should <meta property="og:image" content="..."> have an alt tag?

I want to follow good SEO practices by adding alt tags to all my images. For Facebook sharing, I have this code: <meta property="og:image" content="..."> Can I add an alt="Facebook image" to ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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How to tell search engines to not index entire image domain without making them waste server bandwidth or making google complain

From what I learned, there's one way I could cause all URLs on a domain strictly serving images not to be indexed and that is with the x-robots-tag HTTP header. Now I check my logs and find out that ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Images based website speed

I have a WordPress site which is 90% 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 5....
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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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SEO for filename of images that are uploaded using Ruby on Rails

I'm use RoR 3.2 and carrierwave gem for upload images. I want will do SEO optimization for uploaded images filenames. For example I have model Car(attributes: :id, :name, :avatar(carrierwave image ...
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Users upload images via text message

I was playing around in Photobucket and saw the upload via text message option. (Each users gets a unique "number") Does anyone know how to accomplish this or lead me in the right direction for it? I ...
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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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If I used CSS to size an image, would google understand the new size?

Say I have this html code (replace x and y with actual numbers): <html> <head> <style> IMG {width: 100%;height: auto; max-width:xpx; max-height:ypx;} </style> &...
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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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