Image hosting, afraid it will be viewed as doorway
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I take lots of picture of product on my fancy new (well, used) dslr camera. My ecommerce platform charges by the amount of data transfer, so I want to host the full-size images on another site.
So if Example.com is my e-commerce site full of 400px-wide images, I'm thinking of using Example.net as a sister site to store the 2400px by 3200px pictures, avoiding giant overage charges from volusion.
Is there any likelihood of Google viewing this as a doorway or mirror or anything bad?
Thanks for your thoughts and time.
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I'm still not sure you have a problem if I'm honest. If your actual site is fine, then purely providing an image off-site is not a classic 'doorway' website model so can't see why you'd be penalised for that, in my view, quite sensible practice.
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Good tidbit Ruth. Slightly different image names and descriptions. Will do, thanks.
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Great thank you Martin. Actually the full-size images WILL be accessible by a normal link. We're not selling photographs, rather furniture, and that's my MO for providing good content to customers. Images and description on .com, super-big images on .net.
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I agree with Martin - I don't think it would be an issue. To make sure you don't get duplicate content problems, make sure your images have different names and descriptions on your .net site than they do on your .com site, and you should be fine.
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I don't know what my other Mozzers here would say, but I don't see how your site could be viewed as a doorway just because you're hosting images off-site.
If the e-commerce site itself functions properly and you have the right content on it and is, unique in what it provides (i.e. no duplicate content) then I don't see it can be a doorway.
I also assume that the full-size images won't be accessible by a normal 'link', i.e. you only get the right to that image once you've paid for it?
If that's the case then I genuinely can't see any risk to your e-commerce site. Provide great content, a good shopping environment and build your reputation online, as with any business.
Personally, I think you can relax - and from a web design perspective, I don't blame you for looking to host large images off-site
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