Images added to website automatically become URLs - is this an issue?

[McTaggart]

Hello Mozzers! I've just been trawling through a website and noticed all of the images had their own URLs.

There's a bespoke CMS and that's how it works with images...

So out of 1447 urls, 1314 are images.

Firstly, is this an issue / problem from an SEO perspective. If it is, how should I deal with it? Thanks in advance, Luke

[Sarbs]

When you say they are URLs do you know what their content type is? Which crawling tool did you use? Images need to be hosted somewhere so shall be called through the HTML etc. but they are normally ended by a .png .jpg or whatever is applicable (again this varies). Screaming frog is my personal favourite for crawling and this shall tell you the type of content these images being identified as.

[McTaggart]

Hi Tuzzell - most of the URLs relate to jpgs (or pngs) like this http://www.XXXXXXX/images/buildingtypes/cornerpic.jpg

(I use screaming frog - yay ;-))

[NateStewart]

It's perfectly normal. It's not a url on its own but rather a "link" on the domain.  Basicly what you are seeing is the path to the image on that domain. For example if you put the picture on your computer in folder called house you might find it at mycomputer/pictures/house. Kinda the same concept.

[McTaggart]

Many thanks Nathan - that's good to know!