Image File Names for eCommerce?

[TheFlyingSweetPotato]

Hi everyone!

I'm wondering about naming my product photo file names for an E-Commerce site.

Let's say I say have product named Abe Lincoln in the **Print **category for sale with 4 images, relatively similar but from different views for example.Could I name them as follows?

1) abe-lincoln-print.jpg

2) abe-lincoln-print-side-view.jpg

3) abe-lincoln-print-close-up.jpg

4) abe-lincoln-print-font-view.jpg

Or is that too many keywords for the page? Should I be worried about keyword stuffing? Plus once I add in title and alt tags and descriptions this could also increase the keyword count for "abe lincoln print"?

[DirkC]

I think these names would be fine and following google guidelines for image search (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/114016?hl=en) - quote: "The filename can give Google clues about the subject matter of the image. Try to make your filename a good description of the subject matter of the image. For example, my-new-black-kitten.jpg is a lot more informative than IMG00023.JPG. Descriptive filenames can also be useful to users: If we're unable to find suitable text in the page on which we found the image, we'll use the filename as the image's snippet in our search results."

rgds

Dirk

[Matt-Williamson]

I agree with Dirk - the names you have suggested would work fine and there is a clear difference between each. Obviously the more descriptive you can be with each file the better - but often easier said than done on eCommerce sites.