Image filenames

[CoL-PR]

A developer asked me if it's ok to add a string of characters (output by Sharepoint) to the image filename. Not a good idea for SEO I said....I've already suggested using keywords for filename and including keyword descriptions in the alt and title attributes.

It's a SharePoint shopping cart. Does anyone have any suggestions, experience or workarounds for this?

[AdoptionHelp]

Having keywords in your image filenames is a good idea, but it doesn't harm it to add some dynamically generated strings at the end if that's necessary for technical reasons. As one example, I maintain a site which has user profile pictures, and by adding a dynamic string to the end of profile pictures it prevents the situation where the user uploads a new profile picture but see's the old one because of their browser cache.

Definitely use relevant text in your alt and title attributes, but don't sweat a few extra characters added on a filename if it will help your developers.