I am currently creating a site form the ground up, so thought it best to get things right from the start. The site will be listing rental villas for the small Caribbean island of Barbuda. Here are few ways I thought I should name the files. Would value your opinions, thoughts, musings, etc. on the examples below....and why you would choose one format over the other. 1. morning-glory-villa-barbuda-01.jpg 2. morning-glory-rental-villa-barbuda-01.jpg 3. morning-glory-villa-01.jpg 4. barbuda-morning-glory-villa-01.jpg 5. barbuda-villa-morning-glory-01.jpg Is there a penalty for using too many hyphens? Any thoughts on the above naming formats or suggestions on other naming formats greatly appreciated
Because image file names, likely, cary very little weight in the grand scheme of a ranking algorithm, I tend to use image file names to spread around a bunch of related key words. I would do something like: barbuda.jpg villa.jpg caribean.jpg morning-glory.jpg barbuda-villa.jpg carribean-villa.jpg barbuda-rental.jpg etc. This way i get to sprinkle without getting spammy. But if there is only a few images on the page, then I use my full targeted key phrases for file names. If you had 10+ images on a page and they all said: carribean-morning-glory-villa-barbuda-01.jpg carribean-morning-glory-villa-barbuda-02.jpg carribean-morning-glory-villa-barbuda-03.jpg carribean-morning-glory-villa-barbuda-04.jpg carribean-morning-glory-villa-barbuda-05.jpg etc......... that would be over doing it and may possibly trigger a spam filter. I have no concrete examples of this becoming a problem but i would not do it.
Thanks for all tips/suggestions people. I think I will mix up the names leaving the Barbuda and or villa either in or out. I was worried about it looking "spammy" even if it was just logical