Website image naming?
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- bainbridge
Is there really any reason to worry about how you name your images on a portfolio website (besides being able to organize them yourself)?
Would there be any advantage to putting a name in the image name, like baindrige_projecta.jpg?
- e-pill0
well back in the day.. on netscape navigator
- prophetone0
well i suppose since it's a portfolio, if someone dl's an image for ref later and the name is branded that helps out. i dl lotsa stuff and it's super helpful to have an artist name in there to refer back to a site, etc. also there's prob some good seo reasons for showing up on google images.
- ukit20
Google will use the image file name to index them, which could be good I guess if you want to drive more traffic to your site.
- dbloc0
yes, every image should have a name for SEO purposes, and every image name should be unique
- JG_LB0
SEO works. I name my files accordingly: "subject-name-whatever.gif" the dashes do better in search versus underscores
- Continuity0
I'm rather curious, those of you banging on about SEO:
It's a personal portfolio, so what does SEO matter, really? I just find the notion that someone would Google 'art director', happen on your book and then hire you astronomically unlikely. My experience, anyway; whenever I've been searched and approached, it's actually been on sites liked LinkedIn, not from a search engine.
- That having been noted, all of my portfolio pages have the no-index meta in the head. I don't want my shit indexed.Continuity
- That's why I said "if"ukit2
- bainbridge0
^ Yes, I don't care about SEO. I'm more interested what you people think is the best thing to do in case people save images or Tumblr them or something.
- Continuity0
^ My instinct is to say that it probably doesn't really matter, as it's probably likely people who are saving images to re-post on Tumblr or similar would re-name them according to their own conventions anyway.
- dMullins0
Adding names to your images is important for a number of reasons. Personal portfolio or not, I think you'd like to be found in your geography for new business potentially.
I always name my images like "clientname-my-name-designer-geo... It's nice to show up in Google Images as well as get that added bump in overall SEO for doing something as simple as adding my name and title to the image name.
- hereswhatidid0
Better question would be: Is there any reason to not name your files in a logical, consistent way? Unless we're talking about batch creating and uploaded hundreds of images why not take the extra 2-3 seconds per file and name them according to their content?