My company is changing ecommerce platforms. What are image URL considerations?
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My company is switching from osCommerce to Magento. What should I do about my image URL's? Should I try to recreate the filenames and directory paths from the old site on the new one? How bad is it for our SEO if I can't do that?
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Hi Kyle,
Your main consideration here is are your images generating traffic through Google/Yahoo/Bing image searches? If you do then it's something you'll need to address.
If they are, you can always 301 redirect old image paths to the new ones. If not I wouldn't worry about it.
Hope the site migration goes well.
Iain - Reload Media
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Hi!
More information would always be helpful.
It may help in terms of Google image search but based on the assumption that the page code will be changing and SE's will have to re-index the new code anyway, it should not matter in my opinion. Of course if you get traffic via Google Image Search, that may be something to consider.
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Hi!
More information would always be helpful.
It may help in terms of Google image search but based on the assumption that the page code will be changing and SE's will have to re-index the new code anyway, it should not matter in my opinion. Of course if you get traffic via Google Image Search, that may be something to consider.
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