What happens if I structurally uploaded two different images under the same name? Will Google penalise me for it?
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Hi,
we are a self storage company (www.boxie24.com) and for every url (500 url's) we use 1 head image containing the keyword of the url, so for instance: https://www.boxie24.com/en-us/self-storage-west-village
the main image on top is self-storage-west-village-sm.jpg. It was uploaded months ago. Now we are adding more images between the content. But we call them: self-storage-west-village-sm.jpg as well and self-storage-west-village-boxie24-storage-sm. But for almost every url we have "duplicate image name". Is that bad and should we fix it or is it ok? It are different images though. I noticed it today, the images have the same name
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I agree with seoman here, not something that will get you penalized but certainly opportunities to better optimize your images.
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I very much doubt you will get a penalty for that, but it isn't great for SEO.
The first thing is you need to describe images for what they are. Secondly, those images should be relevant to the page content.
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