: SEO and external sites that serve responsive images (like Re-SRC) Re-SRC is a tool that allows you to automatically serve responsive images for your website from their cloud servers. It delivers

@Carla537

Hi Guys I actually work on ReSRC.it so I hope I can contribute wisely.

Thanks bybe for your accurate and insightful response.

With regards to the link juice I guess any juice would actually go to our app servers (app.resrc.it) rather than our actual website that sits on a different domain so we stand to gain nothing on that regard. Ultimately those images are linked from your site so it should be your site that the image links back to. I'm confident google are aware of the fact that people are starting to use CDNs more and more to host resources and hopefully these sites won't be discriminated against.

With regards to javascript being turned off and spider crawling; on our demos we've deliberately adopted a mobile first approach which uses a highly optimised image which is then swapped out by a higher quality / pixel perfect version.
You can however easily set that initial image size and quality using our parameters in the image path.
e.g.
/s=w960/o=85/http://www.resrc.it/img/demo/demo-image-11.jpg
would produce an initial image of 960px at 85% quality. This would mean google image results would have a decent quality version in their index.

Hope this contributes.

Cheers

Dom

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@Nimeshi995

The SEO problems you've raised are the same as any other cloud apart from the viewpoint changes in the image URLS which is new and I'm very interested in.


While linking images does help site trust and passes a little amount of juice since img tags you can't use nofollow and any site embedding your images will pass the juice. With this said its considered a TINY amount of juice and most consider it worthless. However! it does help your linking DIVERSITY. Generally as a golden rule it's best to have all types of links going to your sites href image links, text links, anchor links, nofollow and do follow on all types of platforms such as forums, blogs, social media etc etc. You could always use a few pictures on the site that are not on the cloud and link to via profile avatars and so forth to increase your linking Diversity.
Google will only index pictures that can be found on a page, since this platform uses viewpoint and javascript to switch between different images your find that only the default image will be indexed by Google.


For example when disabling JS the following image became the master and the URL did not change. Since Google doesn't use Javascript when crawling this is the image it will find and use, and the Google image engine is good at picking out files that are the same but different sizes 'GENERALLY'.

/s=w960/o=15/http://www.resrc.it/img/demo/demo-image-11.jpg


Conclusion

The Benefits of using a cloud out weighs that of worrying about image linking and so on also since more and more people are moving to such CDN networks it could well be that Google rewards the domain who first links to image for all we know - passing the juice along. I'm pretty sure that or in future Google will take this into account and pass accord-ling.

Furthermore, Google loves rich content as you know and that includes things like media files such as videos and images - Google rewards for putting images and videos on the page and since this passes content value I'm pretty sure they can pass on juice if the image is unqinely found on the domain in question. Ofc this is pure speculation but it would make sense.

Personally I wouldn't worry about the SEO too much and focus on delivering fast rich content. Best SEO is providing for your visitors at the best possible experience within Reason and this is a good reason - Speed Matters ;)

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