Links>TopPages: Mostly image URLs: Good for SEO? Redirect obsolete ones??

[GregB123]

Looking at my "Links > Top Pages" report shows the top fifteen being image URLs (jpg files). Weird or normal?

Clicking the "View Links" icon for a few of the image URL's shows that the best links in the list have DA in the 30's and 40's, and some PA in the 20's. But the linking sites have names that SOUND pretty crappy (from sites with names that sound weird or spammy)

QUESTION 1: Do links to image URLs...   A) help the overall SEO of the site's HTML pages,   B) only help the specific page the image appears on,  C) or are they of no value to the regular pages?

QUESTION 2: What to do with the obsolete images? (images still hosted on our site, but do not appear on any pages)  If I remove the images, the links will be lost. Which is good if the links are hurting us, but it would be bad for our SEO if the links are helping (unless we 301 the obsolete images to current ones)

Thanks!

[JohnSammon]

Hey there! Can you post an example of an image URL that it's giving you?

Thanks!

John

[GregB123]

Hi John,

Sure thing! They are mostly images we made for a Yard Drainage Guide we wrote years ago that used to be very popular.

Here is image #1 - https://www.easydigging.com/sitebuilder/images/drainage_33-600x388.jpg

And here is image #3 - https://www.easydigging.com/sitebuilder/images/drainage_22-600x386.jpg   *MOZ is showing a Link Status of 403 (forbidden) for this and many other images. But not sure why since the images are easily viewed and appear in the drainage guide.

Attached is the screenshot of the "Links>TopPages" screen from Moz Pro.

moz-image-urls.jpg

[JohnSammon]

Hey Greg!

I'm sorry that I didn't see it was you posting the question initially. All great questions and I'm looking forward to seeing the others respond. I would definitely keep the images and find ways to incorporate the older or obsolete images into new content on the website. If people are linking to them, they find them valuable.

Another option is to 301 redirect the image URL to the page and place the image on that page. You would then get the equity from the image link to the page.

I hope that helps!

[GregB123]

Anybody else have ideas or suggestions about this question?

Happy New Year!

Greg