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Image name should be describing the image any way. That's just good seo.

• exodust 12y ago
  Putting dimensions in image names is fine, it's quite useful for asset management. Describing the image is the alt tag's job. Otherwise, consider the nightmare... Britney_Spears_Red_Carpet_MTV_Awards_2012_834pm_Headshot.jpg Which isn't great file naming for the web. Or am I too oldschool and this is how all the kool kids do it now? Do search engines expect meta data in image names? I don't think they're counting on it, even if they are picking it up.
  • herokusaki 12y ago
    >Which isn't great file naming for the web. Why?
    • exodust 12y ago
      Because of standardized naming convention, or lack of. In the Britney example, there's no naming convention, only a vague approximation of the image contents. This may work for you personal blog, but in large production environments, you don't want editors just "making up" image names without consistent naming convention. Remember that the original digital camera image has no mention of Britney! At best, when the RAW image is converted, the general image name might be appended with "mtv_awards", but nothing further. Same for video file naming. You can't fit all the subject matter of the video into its file name, you would instead maybe put the reverse date in the name and an abbreviated title. But to expect that to be used for SEO is not a good strategy.