Google Places for Business Image URL Suggestions
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Hi All,
Currently am grandfathered on the old Bulk Upload version of Google Places for Business. I am being told that the ability to upload images using their upload tool will not be available any longer. Therefore, I am being forced to house the images for each of my 900+ locations on an outside server and then reference the web url location for each image for each location.
I can handle creating the spreadsheet for this, but my question is, does anyone know of a good place to store images in folders that will create clean urls?
Example, I have location 1. I have a folder on my hard drive called location 1 that has 10 unique image .jpg files in that folder. I want to be able to upload that folder to an image host/server and have the url come out something like, www.example.com/pics/location1/image1.jpg
I have tried multiple online storage options so far, such as dropbox, shutterfly, and some one offs, but have not found anything that can do what I need. I don't have the ability to buy a new hosting account with FTP to create my own image storage library, so must be a free solution.
Greatly appreciate any help anyone can offer
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Glad to help and thankful to be part of such a great community!
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Hi Vadim, yes, Google Drive provides 15GB of free storage. Thanks for catching my typo, and for your many contributions to the Moz community. I appreciate it.
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Hi Christy I believe its 15GB of storage right, probably a typo.
If hosting exists subdomain redirects for clean URLs is great. Also dropbox.com and many other services work, with subdomain redirects, like so.
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Hi Brad, thanks for your question! Google Drive offers up to 15MG 15GB free storage (per account, shared with gmail and Google Plus). You can upload your entire "pics" folder to a new public folder of the same name on Google Drive, but this will create long, messy URLs. Does the business already own a domain? If so, you could create a subdomain and redirect it the public folder to create clean URLs for your images. Let me know if this is feasible for your situation or not.
Christy
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Hi Brad,
Try photobucket.com. Its been known to give you flexible embed and link options. Here is an example of the permalink structure:
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff255/robynm17/uyergyey1.jpg
Hope it helps
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