Can Image Quality In Online Store Effect Main Site SEO?

[jerrico1]

My client is building a new shopping cart that will be mobile friendly BUT will have terrible image quality - tiny images, with text on them. How will these tiny images impact the SEO on the main site? Should they put the store on the mainsite.com or on a subdomain (store.mainsite.com)? Does google see subdomains as part of the main site? I would think that having thousands of shopping product pages could be beneficial to the main site SEO, as long as the images don't negate the content. Thoughts?

[tir17]

@jerrico1

Hey Jerrico, I suggest the store should be kept on the same domain with a subfolder E.g domain-name/store rather than starting off with the new subdomain.

Second, adding product pages will improve your brand visibility and hence you will be able to capture more SERP real estate. Also, the product pages will give you more avenues for keyword insertions and you can add quality content later on to promote the products.

Third, you should not compromise on the quality of the images at all, rather compress them in webp format and then upload the same on the pages. This is due to the fact that user experience and user metrics will play a crucial role for your store and overall domain this will affect your rankings if the bounce rate goes higher and dwell time on the site decreases.

[BrandonWood]

@jerrico1 Images can actually hurt your website. Product images can make or break your online shop's success. By adding more context around images, results can become much more useful, which can lead to higher-quality traffic to your site.