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Are same images on different url considered as duplicate content?

by albertzd
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I have same images on same domain but different url, can that harm my SEO?
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelkoehler92
    No since we index the pages and not the individual images but its good to have different images.
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    • Profile picture of the author PrincePatridge
      Originally Posted by michaelkoehler92 View Post

      No since we index the pages and not the individual images but its good to have different images.
      This is true. Follow michaelkoehler92 advice.
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    The hubbub over same site duplicate content is very overblown and the pages would have to be far more the same than sharing an image for it to matter at all. Google can't "read" images, so it couldn't be duplicate "content" even if you believe there is such a thing as that. If it really worries you, change the ALT tag on one of them.

    Read more about how wrong most people are about the "duplicate content penalty" here - The myth of the duplicate content penalty
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Are same images on different url considered as duplicate content?
    Yes, the same image is a duplicate regardless of any URL.

    Google knows when images are the same even If you change the image size/scale (see screenshot below).




    Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

    The hubbub over same site duplicate content is very overblown and the pages would have to be far more the same than sharing an image for it to matter at all. Google can't "read" images, so it couldn't be duplicate "content" even if you believe there is such a thing as that. If it really worries you, change the ALT tag on one of them.

    Read more about how wrong most people are about the "duplicate content penalty" here - The myth of the duplicate content penalty


    You're wrong.

    There's no penalty but there's a Supplemental SERP so If you have duplicate pages or in OPs case duplicate images (assumes trying to rank an image) Google will bury one or both pages/images in Supplemental SERPs where it will never be seen by traffic. So... might as well be a penalty. Either way you're not getting any traffic.

    When it comes to identical pages on unique domains the one with better SEO wins, the rest get buried in Supplemental SERPs sooner or later.

    Do a Google Image search for the keyword auto insurance, there's only one result for the the image below, the rest are buried. All the images below are on different domains. Only one domain/page is showing/ranked on Google images yet Google knows all the images are the same.

    BTW, the ALT tag isn't going to do anything, matter of fact it's weak for image SEO. It's fine for plain text on the page but that's about it.





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    • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Yes, the same image is a duplicate regardless of any URL.

      Google knows when images are the same even If you change the image size/scale (see screenshot below).

      You're wrong.

      There's no penalty but there's a Supplemental SERP so If you have duplicate pages or in OPs case duplicate images (assumes trying to rank an image) Google will bury one or both pages/images in Supplemental SERPs where it will never be seen by traffic. So... might as well be a penalty. Either way you're not getting any traffic.

      When it comes to identical pages on unique domains the one with better SEO wins, the rest get buried in Supplemental SERPs sooner or later.

      Do a Google Image search for the keyword auto insurance, there's only one result for the the image below, the rest are buried. All the images below are on different domains. Only one domain/page is showing/ranked on Google images yet Google knows all the images are the same.

      BTW, the ALT tag isn't going to do anything, matter of fact it's weak for image SEO. It's fine for plain text on the page but that's about it.
      Sorry, but everything you said sure seems pointless to me. Google nor any other search engine is going to hold back the rankings of a page simply because it contains the same image as another page. This happens all the time with eCommerce websites that have a product in multiple categories. We have the same exact images on many, Many, MANY pages of our eCommerce websites - all pointing to the same image URL - and there has never been a consequence of a page not ranking because of it.

      Perhaps the disagreement here is due to the OP's ambiguous wording of the question. I was assuming that they would not create a second, duplicate image and would just point to the same image URL. My bad if that is not the case. Even then, if you had the same image but the image had a different URL, your page wouldn't be affected in the least, providing it had substantially different content than the other page(s) that had the same image.

      As far as whether or not an image appears multiple times in an image search goes, who cares? Unless you are a photographer or graphic designer who is selling images, why on earth would it matter? If anything, the majority of people who are doing image searches are doing so in order to steal your images.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
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    What's the reason for having the same image in a different location?

    You want images and webpages to load as fast as possible.
    The image would already be cached in browser if loaded once, and instantly load thereafter.

    The only points to having different ones is if there was a rhyme or reason to it.

    A lot of big websites have all images on one different domain dedicated just to image storage. They use the same image files across the board.

    If you really mean that you have different pages with the same images...well...that's normal. Not normal: Different file locations, same image.

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  • Profile picture of the author AMEntrepreneur
    I think yes. Why you used the same image. There are a lot of images. You select the different image for different website its batter for your website. Everything is duplicated. So don't use the same image in another website..
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  • Profile picture of the author AMEntrepreneur
    I think yes. Why you used the same image. There are a lot of images. You select the different image for different website its batter for your website. Everything is duplicated. So don't use the same image on another website.
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  • Profile picture of the author Uchiha Itachi
    as far as I know google can not see the information as images, if problems occur which can measure the HTML attributes such as ALT and title tag, caption tag of the image.
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    • Profile picture of the author albertzd
      Thank you for answers, i did some research myself and it says google does not use images as ranking factor, so you cant be punished for double images
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