Image URL's and naming

[centralvacuumstores]

We're re-platforming on Magento and wondering about our images.

1.  Should I be concerned about 301 redirects for my images.

2. Is there a "best practice" path for images?  or is just the name important?  Right now, all our images are in /meta/images/sm or /lg or /xlg.  Since we're re-platforming, we're wondering if we should change the urls.  But, I'm assuming this would require all of them to have 301 redirects and with all the other redirects, I'm not sure this is really feasible.

thanks for any suggestions on this.

[LynnPatchett]

Hi,

If you are moving over to Magento then I think your image paths/names are going to be changing anyway? Magento image urls and names out of the box are a bit messy (like a lot of ecom options).  I have had some luck with this extension: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/netzarbeiter-nicerimagenames.html for getting things like manufacturer name added to the image name. I am not aware of any extension that optimizes the folder structure, there might be one around but I am not sure. All things considered, the image name is way more important than the path so I wouldn't stress over it too much.

As for redirecting the old image urls, unless you are getting some specific traffic from certain images I wouldn't bother. It would be a bit of a nightmare trying to track down those cache folder urls of Magento's!

Hope that helps (a bit).

[centralvacuumstores]

Lynn,

Thanks for your input.  I greatly appreciate it.  I think we'll get that extension you mentioned.

Sincerely,

Craig

[centralvacuumstores]

I found this extension is only for Magento community.  We're using Magento Enterprise.  I'll have to look for a different extension if one exists.

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Craig

I honestly don't know much about the Magento piece, but I am pretty confident the path doesn't matter much at all, just the file name of the image.

-Dan