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Image names
Hello,
a customer asked me if I could rename the images to make them SEO-compliant. He says 20.jpg is not enough descriptive of the item in the picture…
Any hint/plugin/workaround?
Thanks…
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Re: Image names
Manaus wrote:
a customer asked me if I could rename the images to make them SEO-compliant. He says 20.jpg is not enough descriptive of the item in the picture…
The debate has raged for a while on TXP’s image naming convention. The upshot is that no, at the moment, it’s non-trivial.
As far as SEO itself is concerned, I don’t know how much difference it makes. If the alt / title are representative of the content, Google Images (for one) will find it and catalogue it. The filename might carry some weight but I don’t know how much influence it has on people being able to find your pictures (like meta keywords now being largely irrelevant compared to the page content). I’ve found plenty of pictures out there for exactly the right purpose that were called something like DSC012345.jpg.
Bottom line: it’s a disconnect steeped in TXP’s history that’s tricky to change. It might happen one day, but for now I’m afraid your stuck with it unless someone cleverer than me can come up with something.
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#3 2011-02-28 15:36:25
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Re: Image names
In a competitive Google world an image with a file name keyword.jpg will rank higher than one called DSC012345.jpg so it will get found more often. Also more importantly an image filename keyword.jpg can help your whole page rank very slightly better for that keyword. I guess though that a couple of extra links from on topic sites would work a whole lot better but I agree that you should try to optimise all of the things that you do have direct control over.
As Stef says there is no easy way to do this (and he should know). In fact I took a look at WP recently solely because of this issue and whilst I like their solution for image naming (take a look Stef) Textpattern is much better in other respects.
Short term the only solution I can see is to upload your images using FTP and hand code the full image tag to point to the image and make sure that it contains well written alt text. That way you can call the image whatever you want.
Hopefully in the not too distant future Stef and the other guys who give up their time to make Textpattern great will incorporate a fine solution in one of their major updates.
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My textpattern photo blog is keyword optimized and performs well. It is usually number 1 or two for the target keywords – right now number one out of 2,320,000 results. But don’t even bother trying to find one of the photos using a google image search. One solution im pondering is to take all the images properly named and do a quick static site with iphoto and provide a link at the footer to it.. Anyway for photography or image based site it is a drawback.
its a bad hen that wont scratch itself.
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