Can pulling images from another site of yours be bad?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by john269, Sep 14, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    I have a site that has products on and then I have another site where some of the same products are listed on both sites but in a different way.

    I use the same images for the product on both sites so I only host the images on one site to save money on space.

    Could this affect your rankings. Is pulling images from another site of yours be damaging to your rankings.
     
    john269, Sep 14, 2006 IP
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    seo-mumbai Well-Known Member

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    No nothing happens, most of them host there images on imageshack.
     
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    BILZ Peon

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    i have heard rumors that hotlinking to another site, is considered a link to that site by the SE's. I havent seen any proof of this... but is an interesting thought and perhaps something you want to consider.
     
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  4. john269

    john269 Notable Member

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    The thing is, I have over 1,000,000 images being pulled from one site by about 20 other sites and they are all hosted on the same server and have the same IP.

    I don't want to get banned from the SE's, but I don't see the point in having to have to have 1,000,000 images on the same server 20 times for each site, if you get what I mean.

    That will take up 20's the amount of space and I just have not got it to waste.

    Does anybody know if they really do consider image hotlinking in their ranking. If they do then I think it is a little stupid if you get penelized for linking to images from another site of yours.
     
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    when ever u host images on other site, u get 3 or 4 types of links, u just use link that hase no backlink to them.
     
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    I don't quite get what you mean. When you use an image from another site you just have one way really and that is:

    <img src="http://domainname.com/images/image1.jpg" border="0" />

    The above is all you have really. Will using something like that on domainname2.com mean that I could be damaging my PR and ranking in the Search Engines, plus could get banned as I have over 1,000,000 images like it.

    Please help!
     
    john269, Sep 14, 2006 IP