Images Reference Other Web Server
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One of my real estate clients has a website that was built by a small web design company. In reviewing the website I've discovered that many of the images on the website (ie. banners, social networking icons, ect.) are not hosted on my clients server, but on the web developers server.
Ex.
src="http://www.[WebDevelopmentCompany].com/ubertor/[ClientsName]/properties_image.jpg"Will this funnel pagerank/link juice away from my client's website? This struck me as odd and it's not an issue I've come across before.
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I think that its an issue. Although the link juice passed is not that high, it makes complete sense to get the images on the same server as the website.
As an immediate step, you can add a nofollow tag to the links just to make sure that no link juice is passed.
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Have you asked the developer why they keep these images on their server? Unless it's a banner ad or some affiliate content it doesn't make much sense. I'd ask them to move the content to your clients server. As far as this causing a leak in the site's strength goes, I don't see why that should be a concern.
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