Does it matter if I leave image links pointing to old site when I move a wordpress blog?

[Chammy]

Hi everyone

I am moving a blog from one site to another. I have all the 301 redirects etc under control, but my question has to do with image links in the blogs.

The image links all point over to the old site once the posts are copied over. Is this a major problem from an SEO perspective? Lots of links pointing out to an old site? It won't matter from the users perspective as I have 'none'  for the image URL, so the user will never know.

I will reload all the images if necessary but boy that will be a lot of work. Or is there a shortcut?

Thanks very much

Wendy

[CHADHARRIS]

Wendy,

I had a  very similar situation and we did a one by one relink to the new site.  We found that was the best thing in the long run but it was very time consuming.

Sorry to create more work for you.

Chad

[activitysuper]

I think the image urls are stored in a table through mysql.

You could export the table, find/replace old domain with new and import it back in.

You would just need to copy the image folder structure over into the new.

[Chammy]

Thanks Chad and activitysuper for your replies