Jetpack photon link issue

  • Resolved fizx

    (@fizx)


    9 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    I love jetpack photon it does its job beautifully.

    But there are questions I have and I searched and got mixed answers and read mixed reviews which are quite misleading so I wanted to ask the developers of the plugin or anyone with positive knowledge about the subject.

    My sites images are still searched by Google with old image link.

    http://www.fiz-x.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/pixar-logo.jpg And link cannot be found cz new link is like this: http://i1.wp.com/www.fiz-x.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Spectre-6.jpg

    but some images with old links works on Google.
    http://www.fiz-x.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/the-pyramid.jpg

    This is very confusing. Please help how would my site serves images with photon using old link or with new photon WordPress link but Google index all of the images with new links so when someone click on the image don’t face a 404.

    This is the question which a lot of users asking so solving it here will help many.

    Question 2.

    Using photon hurt my image indexing or Google ranking of my site in any way at all? And what happened to the old image links which people inserted in their blogs and now all those links are facing a 404 because of changed image links.

    Please help and thank you for reading this all.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/

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  • Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic 🚀

    9 years, 3 months ago

    My sites images are still searched by Google with old image link.

    That’s not something Photon can control I’m afraid. This would happen even if you weren’t using Photon.

    As long as you delete images that have been indexed by Google, and if some of your posts continue to include links to these broken images, Google will indeed try to access these images to index them.

    To solve this issue, I’d suggest that you make sure to remove all links to broken images from your posts and pages.
    Then, install a Sitemap plugin that will notify Google each time you update a post or page, thus asking Google bot to come and crawl that post again to update its index.

    If you use the WordPress SEO plugin, it includes a sitemap option that can help you.

    Question 2. Using photon hurt my image indexing or Google ranking of my site in any way at all

    No. Photon includes a link to the canonical image in its response, so Google will always know where the original image lives and will index that one. Here is an example:

    $ curl -I 'http://i1.wp.com/www.fiz-x.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Spectre-6.jpg'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 12:33:31 GMT
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 129367
Connection: keep-alive
Last-Modified: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:13:48 GMT
Expires: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 08:13:48 GMT
Cache-Control: public, max-age=63115200
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Link: <http://www.fiz-x.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Spectre-6.jpg>; rel="canonical"
X-Bytes-Saved: 196
X-nc: MISS dfw 149
X-nc: HIT fra 17

    what happened to the old image links which people inserted in their blogs and now all those links are facing a 404 because of changed image links.

    When Google crawls that post again, it will notice the new images and start indexing these images instead of the ones that return a 404 error.

    I hope this helps.

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