Okay, guys, definitely need a sure answer on this one from our SEO experts. My Site A is very image heavy (I have a ton of images on it) and during the last Google Image Directory update, I got an instant 30% boost in traffic because they indexed my site's pictures. So now I want to be prepared for the next update, but here's my slight problem: In order to save bandwidth on Site A, I moved a lot of my images, and are storing new images, on Site B, and are linking to them from Site A. Some are in thumbnails, others the full image. My question: when Google updates their Image Directory, and they index my images, will they be pointing visitors to the images on Site B or to Site A, where the images are embedded? Obviously I want people to be directed to Site A, which has all of my ads, etc, and not to Site B, which just has the images free for the taking without me getting a single dime. Any thoughts on this? If my images are embedded in htm pages on Site A, would Google direct referrals to Site A where the html pages are, and to Site B where the original images are?
Or it could be removing all your pictures from the results because site A show pictures from another site and site B has no pages with that images.
My solution will be a temporary compromise: let your most popular images for google in the original site.
My experience is that when the images are on site b but are referenced in site A, google will show site A as the page the images are to be found, provided that the images are not referenced in a page on site b. Hope this helps.