Storing content
 

I have a question regarding storing content on your website. ( movies, picture sets etc ).

Is it, for SEO ranking, better to put them in an image directory, accessable from the internet? So google can index them? ( provided that the image names have content relevant file names )

I'm currently building a TGP site and content isnt stored in such a directory . Its not directly available from the internet.

If the media is not accessible from the Internet... How will suffers/ google access it. If you mean that while it is under construction that the media is inaccessible. Then you should lock down the front end until it is ready.

As soon as google discovers your site... It will start scoring it and you don't want broken/missing links to anything.

At the risk of becoming too technical, here goes.

In the html img-tag instead of using src with a relative path to the content, i use call on a showimage.php file with GET variables. Essentially, you make a GET request to that php file.

This file looks at the GET vars, process them and picks up the image from a directory on the server outside the htdocs so to speak.

The script then outputs the image to browser.

But now im wondering if perhaps im shooting myself in the legg with this setup as google cant index content relative images from my site.

URL paths to the image should have SEO keywords in it as well as the ALT tag. Note, that the URL and the filename don't need to be the same so you can be create with it if you have a decent programmer.

Ok thanks. Ill make a version where the content is directly accessible by apache.
Guess ill have to make a script as well which renames files if these files have numbers as filename.

Split of the folders and name each folder and file to match the keywords you want.