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#8094 – General SEO Question

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Friday, 20 August 2021 12:58 UTC

[email protected]

Yannick - hi! This is not product-related - it's a general question about SEO.

I asked the guy who administers my web site about a tool to help with reorganizing the images on my site (they are scattered in NUMEROUS directories, MANY images are duplicates, and MANY images are no longer in use because of changing look-and-feel of our site) and he suggested two. (FYI - I looked at both and decided to go with R2H ImageManager.)

His reply to my question also included this caveat:

Removing / Changing url / compress with new suffix may also have a bad impact on Google indexed pages, so this is a long and delicate work to be done in which many aspects must be taken into consideration and which will be evaluated for each single page or article.

To me, changing the URL and/or compression for an image file seems it would have a small (if any) impact on Google index and search results.

Is possible impact as big as he makes it seem, or is impact relatively small?

BTW - Perhaps 4SEO could provide a list of "Do's and Don'ts" for changes to web pages - not as interactive checklist, just as static reference. As an SEO amateur, I'd find that a useful feature.

Thanks for letting me pick your brain!

Best, Todd

Friday, 20 August 2021 13:34 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi Todd,

To me, changing the URL and/or compression for an image file seems it would have a small (if any) impact on Google index and search results.

Is possible impact as big as he makes it seem, or is impact relatively small?

It depends whether you get traffic from your images. Is Google Image a source of traffic for you? if yes, you want to be as careful when changing images as if you were changing pages and URLs. Although in your case, you are only changing the path, not the actual image.

If not, then keeping the same image but simply moving around the file on your server is not really important.

Another factor is whether these images have value (ie charts, graphics), or are just decorative, stock material. If the latter, I would not bother too much about changing their location.

I would suggest

- keep the exact same images file names, only change the path

- of course, removing unused images is not a problem

- run a crawler before an after to identify any broken image links created in the process.

- would be a good opportunity to make sure you have good alt text on all images

- compressing better and reducing size is actually a nice opportunity to have small but real SEO gains. You may look into replacing your img tags with a picture tag that allows listing multiple versions of images depending on the browser capabilities. Not so easy to do in Joomla, you'll probably need a plugin for, I have not looked into it.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Wednesday, 08 September 2021 00:36 UTC

[email protected]

Yannick - hi! EXCELLENT advice on how to handle the images! I've printed and stored the page.

Also, kudos again on SEOInfo browser add-in! As I mentioned in newly created ticket, I recently came across it, loaded it, and LOVE it! GREAT product!

Best, Todd

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