I am curious to know what people consider to be the best practice as far as image management for expired products goes. I am working with a site that has recently removed a large number of products that are no longer active, and am wondering if the images related to those products should also be removed, or if there is any benefit in leaving them there.
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Re: Best practice for images related to expired products
I can't see why they would be of any use. Its possible the image itself is indexed in say google images, but so what...if there is no reference to a page where the image can be seen on context, I doubt the site is getting any traction from the image....and with the cost of SSD disk space on Merchant, seems like its best to remove them.Bruce Golub
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Re: Best practice for images related to expired products
I guess I was thinking about images that are linked to from sites other than Google. This site gets a lot of traffic from places like Pinterest and design sites/blogs. Although, as with Google Images, if the image no longer exists in context...
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Re: Best practice for images related to expired products
I would say delete them. If people are hot linking the images on other websites, they're not likely giving credit to your site to begin with so they're not resulting in inbound traffic. What you could do though, is create an image with the domain name, and then use a .htaccess in the images directory specifically that serves this special image for 404's that occur in the images directory; then hot linkers will end up advertising the site.
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