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Arjen, Thanks for your reply.

You are correct that we're not looking to rank for images of Formica samples (or any of our other samples for that matter), in fact we're just providing the sample images to help our clients better decide which one of our products to order. The sample tiles are just a means to an end.

Do you have any knowledge as to the extent to which Google can "see" an image the same way a human user sees an image? Does Google just rely on the alt text that that you provide them with?

Thanks in advance,

Scott

Hello Keri,

Thanks for your reply. We do have an account with them and permission to use their images.

Do you have any opinions as to the best way to manage the images - ie title, alt text, etc - so as not to run into any duplicate content issues? I'm not clear if Google has the ability to somehow scan the images themselves, or if they just rely on the alt text, titles, etc that you provide along with the images. Any thoughts are appreciated.

Scott

Hello Everyone,

I have a new site that we're building which will incorporate some product thumbnail images cut and pasted from other sites and I would like some advice on how to properly manage those images on our site. Here's one sample scenario from the new website:

We're building furniture and the client has the option of selecting 50 plastic laminate finish options from the Formica company. We'll cut and paste those 50 thumbnails of the various plastic laminate finishes and incorporate them into our site. Rather than sending our website visitors over to the Formica site, we want them to stay put on our site, and select the finishes from our pages.

The borrowed thumbnail images will not represent the majority of the site's content and we have plenty of our own images and original content. As it does not make sense for us to order 50 samples from Formica & photograph them ourselves, what is the best way to handle to issue?

Thanks in advance,

Scott

Hello,

Irving had some good advice for me on this topic - see my question from last week.

http://moz.com/community/q/new-domain-name-for-an-old-site

Good luck

Here is a good piece that will shine some light on your trouble.

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2013/01/yelps-rocky-relationship-with-small-business029/

Here are some posts that I found useful when asking the same question:

• http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-ranking-a-business-with-multiple-locations.html

• http://moz.com/community/q/local-seo-how-to-handle-multiple-business-at-same-address

• http://searchengineland.com/how-to-rank-outside-of-your-physical-location-in-google-places-159043

• Best of luck...

Here is a good piece that will shine some light on your trouble.

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2013/01/yelps-rocky-relationship-with-small-business029/