: Workaround a huge number of image links on a page? [SEO] I have a page that often contains large image galleries displayed with thumbnails linking to the actual images. They are then rerouted

@BetL925

Do you want your images to be ranked in Google image search? If so, your site is doing the correct thing by linking to the full sized versions.

If you don't want your images listed in image search, then letting JavaScript open your gallery and not use any links would be fine. But it would prevent Googlebot from indexing your images and assigning enough Pagerank to them for ranking.

When you said that you "noticed" it hurt SEO, what do you mean? Is there a specific ranking problem that you are having, or is this based on reading about Google's advice about number of links per page? From when it was a startup, Google gave advice that there should be at most 100 links in a page. As far as I can tell, that advice is hogwash. Most large sites have 200-300 links on their homepage and often nearly as many on internal pages. Its not uncommon to find a page with 600 links that is ranking well.

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@Hamaas447

Use the image alt tag with discriminating keywords to help bots with indexing. Alt text should describe image content.

If the URL of your image are all from img.domain.com, this is not an issue. If you are artificially adding links to img.domain.com to try to improve your rankings, don't -> Google will consider it suspicious.

If you can, split your pages with themes (all birds pictures, all fish pictures, etc...). If you mix too many different picture with different keywords, you may fall into keyword dilution, which negatively impacts your rankings.

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