Blocking Google From Accessing Our Images - SEO Impact

[Jantaro]

We recently discovered that we were blocking Google from crawling our cdn, cdn.yournextshoes.com, where all our images are hosted. Unfortunately this went on for several months, and I wonder if this could explain our horrible SEO performance. Basically, I would like to know if this has impacted just our performance in Google Images (obviously our images have not been picked up by Google Images), or if our regular SEO has been impacted as well.Right now we're just receiving around 13% of our traffic from search, so we're trying to find out why Google does not like us.

[AJPro]

Hello,

No I don't think the "image block" is why you don't get much search traffic (unless you used to get a lot of traffic from image search).

Have a look at Google Analytics and see when your site started dropping in traffic. Compare your stats with google panda and penguin updates and see if you can find any relation between any update and the drop.

This plugin for Chrome can help you overlay Google's updates on your analytics charts:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chartelligence/njhdcfdiifemfnfddhfjmfbkajajceag

[Jantaro]

Thanks a lot, I am familiar with the panda and penguin updates. I don't think they impacted us, but it is a possibility.