Not sure about SEO impact, but I recall the Google page speed plugin for Firefox says a "?" in the url might cause other public cache servers to not cache the image.
On Sep 17, 3:17 pm, Joseph Letness <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm no SEO expert but I've always considered it Best Practice to use > semantically meaningful URLs for the both "src" and "alt" attributes > in my HTML. However, using get_serving_url() takes away any SEO > relevance in the "src" attribute. But after testing performance with > get_serving_url(), I think the improved user-experience is worth the > loss in SEO. > > Although, I think that a possible work-around for this would be to > append the URL in the markup with a GET parameter containing > meaningful data. For example: > > http://lh5.ggpht.com/V53SofI9tmIdjz28H7=s160?filename=keyword-friendl... > > I've tested this and it seems to work just fine. However, I am > **assuming** that Googles image server is just ignoring the GET > parameter. Does anybody know if this is the case or could I be > negatively affecting performance with the extra parameter? > > Also, if there are any SEO experts in this group, does this sound like > a worthwhile approach? > > Thanks! > > --Joe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
