image file names for good seo

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Hi guys.

I'm a new concrete5 convert. Love it cause I can get my non-techie business partner to do most of the site updates... :) In fact she loves stacking images and blocks here and there, like lego, to find the right visual mix.

C5 hits the nail on the head on so many points, I'm almost embarrassed to bring this up as nobody like a whiner.

Nevertheless, I see that a lot of my images get dumped into the cache with funky names like 73d5df649dfa553358fe4674cab0f64f_f37.jpg. I go to a lot of effort to give images good SEO names, descriptions, etc. Is it only images that are re-sized by C5 that loose their nice filenames? I love the fact that I can upload one 1000x1000px image and use it all over in different sizes and have the system auto-scale it for me.... just the name gets buggered.

Any suggestions?

Thanks and cheers!

 
Kurieuo replied on at Permalink Reply
Yes, this is something I've been wanting too.

But, the only way I know, is to work out the size/s of the image you desire, and upload those different sizes.

Not sure how C5's image resizing works, but I understand C5 will use a new image editor in the next version. It might be unrelated to the file naming, but it could possible change.

Be great if users could set the file name of an image, or if C5 just took the original file name and appended 100x200 (width x height) to the end.
RyujiS replied on at Permalink Reply
RyujiS
I thought to post just to say I agree 250%.

My website is pretty well SEO'ed but the weakness is that my images don't show up in google image search (and I making living as a photographer!). Sure there is a way to add alt attribute to the img tag through C5 mechanisms but the reality is that the filename is so much stronger.

I would request that the Title property that can be edited through the File Manager be used as the filename when image files are accessed, regardless of the size being used.
designsforchange replied on at Permalink Reply
designsforchange
Hi there,

It's been a while since this was posted about but, I'm running 5.6.3.2. and my SEO person is not happy that 247 images have been indexed with "http://www.mysite.com/files/cache/009d8e7ee0dccbd7ec0611d357762920_f147.jpg" names. They specifically gave file names based on their keywords research.

There are only 86 images actually used on the site, the rest are the resized versions in galleries, blog thumbnails etc.

Did anyone by chance sort out a fix to existing cached files and new ones that are added?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance
RyujiS replied on at Permalink Reply
RyujiS
No progress that I know of. Very disappointing. It's like I'm leaving money on the table every month without this full SEO capability.
designsforchange replied on at Permalink Reply
designsforchange
I did see this thread started, but it was also from a while ago and I'm not sure if it applicable to current.

https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/thumbnail-...

Thoughts?
JohntheFish replied on at Permalink Reply
JohntheFish
The files are in the thumbnails cache because they had to be resized. If you upload files at the size you are using them, resized versions won't be needed and the original file names will be kept.
designsforchange replied on at Permalink Reply
designsforchange
Ok I understand that, I think I'm missing a step then. I put the files in a file set (original size) but then they are displayed in a gallery, the thumbs are generated automatically. How would I make it so that the thumbs are not auto generated? Does that make sense?