Internal Duplicate Images

[M_D_Golden_Peak]

Question: If we had hundreds of images duplicated on a site, but different URL (tacking "-1" to the end), is that a Panda issue? Will we get penalized.

I know duplicate content (web pages) pretty well, but duplicate files? That I'm unsure of.

[TakeshiYoung]

I am not 100% certain, but in 6+ years of doing SEO I have never heard of a site ever getting penalized for images.

[M_D_Golden_Peak]

I've read about Google penalizing for duplicate images pulled from external sites (i.e. - Wikipedia) but have seen a thing about internal duplicate images.

[AlanMosley]

I don't get why you would have tracking on the image, Takeshi may be correct, but I would not do it myself as it may be a low quality signal. I know that the Bing Api will detect it as a duplicate files, what they will do about I don't know.