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Hi Erik If the pictures are relevant to the content, named correctly in their file name, and also have proper alt tags - you're golden, don't worry about it! If you find over time that the images start to lose their rankings and you need to optimize these images more, I would check out Yoast's post on Optimizing Images for SEO and Google's Image Optimization guide. Yoast's post will cover basic image optimization fundamentals from a SEO standpoint while Google's guide will help you find optimal settings for your images, like format capabilities, pixel dimensions and so on. This is especially important as screen sizes change and responsive design is more prevalent. Hopefully these help! Good luck!

Hi Erik With this setup - I fear you will have issues later on as well when trying to optimise the site for SEO (which part of the site will be accessible for the Google bot?) Rather than for Server Side redirects (based on ip) I would offer first time visitors to "Choose your country" page - and store their choice in a cookie, so they are redirected to the proper site on subsequent visits. As an example of what I mean: http://www.volvocars.com/language-selector. This way you can validate the webmastertools using both GA or HTML file. If that is not an option, than DNS seems to be the only proper way to do the validation (it is not as complicated as it may seem) rgds, Dirk

Questions This type of behavior is considered a temporary redirect. Maybe it's better to think of the name as a conditional redirect. In which case, "Oh, your browser is in FR, with that condition let's send you here..."  The 301 is supposed to be used as an unconditional redirect, telling crawlers that you're trying to migrate from URL A to B permanently, so get rid of URL A. Not necessarily. VS a 301, yes. but scrapability is mostly down to linking and sitemaps. Yup. Nope. You'd want to interlink directly to the other languages anyways though in case the 302 doesn't work for whatever reasons. Then the link is passing authority and the user has an option available to them if they'd like to get there on their own. Right. It'd be best to interlink with hreflang on each as you never know for certain how someone arrives at those pages.  Best to give them and crawlers the guidance to where the other translations reside. You're welcome! Hopefully that clears it all up for you.

And now you can get to what you were trying to do in the first place. If I had a dollar...

Hi Bulserik regarding those two questions, if we look just at Google, they are not taken into consideration by Google for International SEO. On the other: because they don't harm a site; because they are used by Bing for geolocalization and geotargeting (Bing does not use the hreflang) then, it is a good idea using them. Check this old but still valid post on Bing about how to geotarget for them: http://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/2011/03/01/how-to-tell-bing-your-websites-country-and-language/ Finally, just to be sure: remember to create Google Webmaster Tools profile for each subfolder and geotarget them for their corresponding countries.