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    • TheFlyingSweetPotato
      TheFlyingSweetPotato last edited by

      Hi everyone!

      I'm wondering about naming my product photo file names for an E-Commerce site.

      Let's say I say have product named Abe Lincoln in the **Print **category for sale with 4 images, relatively similar but from different views for example.Could I name them as follows?

      1) abe-lincoln-print.jpg

      2) abe-lincoln-print-side-view.jpg

      3) abe-lincoln-print-close-up.jpg

      4) abe-lincoln-print-font-view.jpg

      Or is that too many keywords for the page? Should I be worried about keyword stuffing? Plus once I add in title and alt tags and descriptions this could also increase the keyword count for "abe lincoln print"?

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      • Matt-Williamson
        Matt-Williamson last edited by

        I agree with Dirk - the names you have suggested would work fine and there is a clear difference between each. Obviously the more descriptive you can be with each file the better - but often easier said than done on eCommerce sites.

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        • DirkC
          DirkC last edited by

          I think these names would be fine and following google guidelines for image search (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/114016?hl=en) - quote: "The filename can give Google clues about the subject matter of the image. Try to make your filename a good description of the subject matter of the image. For example, my-new-black-kitten.jpg is a lot more informative than IMG00023.JPG. Descriptive filenames can also be useful to users: If we're unable to find suitable text in the page on which we found the image, we'll use the filename as the image's snippet in our search results."

          rgds

          Dirk

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