Image file names

[The Baby Studio]

Hi,

Is it still the case that image file names must be all lower case with hyphens or underscores?

Suppliers send us images with capitals spread through them that they seem use with no problem on their sites. Its a real pain editing the names all the time.

TIA

D.

[Duncan Rounding]

I'm not an SEO specialist but my understanding is that on some Lunux servers filenames are case sensitive. So MyImage.jpg is seen as a different image to myimage.jpg.

I believe the preference for Google is that words in filenames and page names should be separated by hyphens. So blue-ring.jpg is better than blue_ring.jpg or bluering.jpg.

That said your descriptive content will play a far bigger role than image filenaming with Google.You can test your server to see if it sees MyImage different to myimage by uploading both and seeing if they both exist or if one overwrote the other.

[MattSMR]

Hi,

Is it still the case that image file names must be all lower case with hyphens or underscores?

Suppliers send us images with capitals spread through them that they seem use with no problem on their sites. Its a real pain editing the names all the time.

TIA

D.

Consider using software such as "Ant Renamer" to rename all of your image files to lowercase, can be done in 1 click!

You can also remove any spaces and replace with hyphens.

Best practice is all lowercase, or, all uppercase and no spaces.