: Inserting into with the same image and SEO I'm going to use the fancyBox jQuery plugin in the new responsive web design of my website to allow the user to open images in full size. As

@Barnes591

An alternative to that would be the following code, but I am not sure how it would work with your plugin.

<a class="fancybox" rel="group" href="full-size-image.png"
style="background:url('full-size-image.png');
width: 300px; height: 200px;" ></a>

Vote Up Vote Down

@Harper822

Your coding styles are perfectly valid but because you're going after responsive design, directly linking to the actual image files is a bad idea unless your images are smaller than the smallest screen for mobile devices because the users would have to flick their screen and/or zoom in/out to see the whole image.

Unless there's a spectacular reason for your implementations, I wouldn't add a link to the image file when the image itself is already there and of a decent size (via image width and height attributes). Also, a side effect of your method is that if HTTP caching is not enabled, then there will be twice as many requests for images, which in turn increases your bandwidth consumption. The impact is based on the file size of the images used.

Vote Up Vote Down

@Rambettina238

It's not considered bad coding style, in fact it's rather common to have the same link occurring at different places on the same page. Take for example, a forum; usually, in the top right you'll have a link to sign up, you'll then have another at the top of the comments section and then possibly one following each comment. Those are all linking to the same url; the only thing having multiple links to the same place does is add multiples to the weight of the url that is being linked to. So if the url has a positive effect on your ranking, it increases that effect, if it's to spammy page then it's going to have a cumulatively bad effect.

It's important to remember though, that having a few links that go to the same place is hardly the end of the world and has a pretty negligible effect. Unless it's something that is systematic for the site and occurs on a large scale should you be worried.

This article goes some way to explaining the principle behind it.

Vote Up Vote Down