WordPress Images... Stupid Question

by art72
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I am promoting several CB affiliate products, along with others on multiple WordPress niche sites, and there's a few concerns I would like more information about below...

If my affiliate offers a 300x250 creative ad w/ a pre-scripted code per se, I realize that I can simply add a text widget and install the code (*as is), and rely on their hosting to display the image on my site.

Problems I find with this method... many times I've experienced display issues, as either they've removed the file or have server issues, etc.. Therefore, I don't like this method, at all!

I have started downloading the images (*create banners & images) I want to display from the affiliate resources (*right click & save as), and then began to create my own links, as I trust my servers will display the image as its rooted into my public_html file. - and I prefer this method.

However, I am seeking the best practice to organize my affiliate images and create the root path to said images.

I was thinking of creating a folder named "creatives" and then upload all the relevant ad images in one folder for each niche site into my public_domain.

If I do this...

What would be the 'proper' way to write the image path?

Ex: my-website.---/images/creatives/image-name-here.jpg

Would this work?

or

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks,

Art
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael71
    I would use a subdomain and put all images there, outside of the blog.

    You could even use cloudflare as a CDN for your images.
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    • Profile picture of the author art72
      Originally Posted by Michael71 View Post


      You could even use cloudflare as a CDN for your images.
      Indeed, this was the solution to my next concern, which was possibly experiencing slow page load times as my files expand over time, and hosting multiple websites (add-on domains) on one server.

      I remember several marketers (*especially those doing large video files) using AWS or Amazon's S3 for upload/download video file delivery to keep their sites running efficiently.

      Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    If using WP - always have absolute path:
    htt://example.com/subfolder/othersubfolder/etc/imagename.ext
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