Duplicate content

[BridalHotspot]

Are images considered duplicate content too?

Example:
I've got a size chart on each my lingerie pages. All written content is unique but I'm using the same chart for all those pages.

[Chris.Menke]

Sylvana, you won't have any problems with that.

[TomRayner]

Hi Sylvana

No, images won't be seen as duplicate content - simply for the fact that they won't be seen by the Googlebot!

As the bot is not able to crawl images (which is why we use alt tags), you don't have to worry about it as duplicate content.  It's something I've toyed with before for webpages that need to have long disclaimers in the footer of every page - make them an image so the content isn't duplicated.

In addition, you can also test how your pages look in the eyes of Google by using the SEO Browser. That way you'll be able to see what content, if any, is duplicated.

Hope this helps!

[BridalHotspot]

Thanks Tom!
Also a good idea to use images for long disclaimers, I will have to test this too.

[zeepartner]

I agree with Tom. Using images several times is quite common on the web and penalizing for this wouldn't make any sense.

But I disagree with the fact that Googlebot cannot see images. Google's image detection is quite advanced by now and they can definitely see if an image has already been indexed (even just comparing the checksum already gives good hints). Also, Google's "search by image" shows us that this is technically possible.