Greetings All, I need a bit of help. I have a technical question and i am not a programmer so please bare with me. We currently are passing from html plateform to a php one. Before all our pictures had an extension wich was the name of the page i/e: astronomy/space suit. They were all name like that in the folder in wich google rbot had access. We were wondering to go about it with php since all the images would loose their extension. Thank you in advance Matt
1. I see no reason why in php images loose extensions among others I also use gallery2 - a PHP based photo gallery - pics still are jpg. 2. getting images indexed in G image search takes substantially longer than HTML ( in my experience: HTML within minutes to hours or seldom max a day or 2 ) while for images it takes up to 2-3 months for all images to appear in G image search hence if you have already many images published you will loose lots of traffic until all images are re-indexed for image search. if you have an absolute need to change form HTML to PHP - then you may find a method to do so even without changing file names - even less folders or folder structure of the existing site. for example using mod_rewrite you could rewrite all PHP into HTML extensions to maintain all file names as is. changing names, file or folder - ALWAYS is suicide you loose all existing links ( BL ) and may have to rewrite to save what can be saved. without rewriting all old names into the new ones, linking sites get a 404 and eventually may NEVER link to oyu again. I strictly never link to a site again if existing file/folder structures are changed and my BLs turn into 404. changin platform from html to php in no way implies that you have to rename all. study, learn and find solution to keep all as is UNLESS your site and traffic is tiny then kill all and restart from scratch but keep the new way FOR LIFE KNOW what you do before you change be sure that change is NEEDED and brings real benefits for you - benefits = more $ better server resource efficiency faster pageload more or better creative options to publish without REAL needs to change without any or many of above benefits there applies always the default rule valid in ALL situations of life: NEVER change a running system !