100 Images on my e-commerce website

Discussion in 'robots.txt' started by claudiajay, Nov 23, 2012.

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    Dear friends.

    Please suggest me what to do, i have an e-commerce website of 300 pages and having more than 100 product images on all pages, should i put any robots.text file for image folder or what is the best way, i want to do SEO for my web site.

    Thanak You.
     
    claudiajay, Nov 23, 2012 IP
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    ryan_uk Illustrious Member

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    Only you can answer this. The question you need to ask yourself is do you want to stop your images being indexed in Google images? If so, then you need a robots.txt file. Otherwise, it's not necessary (except maybe to specify the sitemap, although it's a bit redundant really).
     
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    Thnak you so much friends for your kind infomation, it would have been more helpful if you would have elaborated it more!!!!!:eek:
     
    claudiajay, Nov 26, 2012 IP
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    How can I? I don't know your intent (I can't read minds).
     
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    Please go to 5starwatchesonline.com and elaborate it more for image optimization, and what i should do with images on my site,i will be really obliged to you
    Thank you so much !!
     
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    I still don't exactly get what you want. I guess optimising for Google images, which has nothing to do with robots.txt. Well, what I notice immediately is your images don't have meaningful names.

    For example, you use "07.jpg" instead of "black-dice-unisex-07.jpg" (having a number isn't a problem and can maybe even help you keep them organised, as long as the numbering system has a meaning to you).
     
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    If you want your images found by search engines add images to robot.txt. When people search images they will come to your website by clicking on those images.
     
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    That makes very little sense. One would not list each individual image in robots.txt.

    However, depending upon your CMS, it might support a sitemap for images.

    I recommend the OP reads this article (as a starter) and researches microdata/rich snippets further. (This isn't for images optimisation specifically, but will give you a big overall SEO benefit.)
     
    ryan_uk, Nov 26, 2012 IP