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question on ftp images not on main website for SEO

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Horatio

1:41 am on Mar 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

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We have our pdf and images on a secondary server. Our main web site presents these images to the user. We do this because of high bandwidth costs on our main ecommerce server.

This has some bad SEO effects. Many people link to our images and pdf files in various forums. We want inbound links, but these are now going to our ftp site, not our main web site.

How can we make it so in bound linking goes to our main site for these files which we serve from elsewhere?

mack

6:27 pm on Mar 23, 2009 (gmt 0)

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You could set up a redirect server side for the images.

Host the images on example.com/images but refer to them as yourdomain.com/images set up a perm redirect in .htaccess to redirect the user from your domain to your image host for the /images folder.

Mack.

Horatio

8:19 pm on Mar 23, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Thank you for the answer but I am not sure it will work. Our store is on a windows server, not a linux server.

bill

7:17 am on Mar 24, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Windows servers can run Apache just fine. Or you could use ISAPI_Rewrite and then rewrite with an .htaccess file on an IIS server.