Hi. I'm just starting my store, so I want to make sure I do this correctly. In Yahoo, it was difficult to get images submitted with a Froogle data feed. You had to name the images with the exact name of the product name or it wouldn't be picked up due to the dynamic nature of Yahoo's server.

Question: Do you have guidelines as to what to name our images so that Froogle, etc. will display them? Thanks!

Hi,

I would recommend naming your products without any appreviations and add a little description to it.


For example we sell shoes, so we would say:

Nike Air Force 1 Low White/White


Here is a post for you to read on froogle, that is going to be added to :
Click here to read the post!

Krazy,
Unless I miss understood, I think that kay was referring to a naming convention for "images" not the product titles.

One thing I heard about Google(not sure about froogle) is that it treats hyphens"-" and underscores"_" differently. Supposedly a hyphen is treated as a space and an underscore is treated as a connecter.

So,
HELLO-WORLD.jpg would look like HELLO WORLD to google.
&
HELLO_WORLD.jpg would look like HELLOWORLD to google.

If this is true its something to take in mind when naming your pictures for keywords.

Ewestforth,

You are right on the money.

>> Use hyphen's, not underscores.

I always use hyphen's, but that's definately good to know! Thanks guys!

Hey ultimate you are right...lol

Thanks! Glad to know about the hyphen - whew. That saved me a lot of work.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
Product name: Pacifica SUV
Part number: 1234
Image name: red-pacifica-by-chrysler.jpg

Will Froogle link the image with the product name? The reason I ask now, is that many Yahoo store owners didn't know that they had to use 1234.jpg for the image name to have Froogle pick it up. HOWEVER, I think that's because Yahoo's path to images is dynamic.

Those of you who have had their MC store picked up by Froogle: Did it make a difference what you used for the image name?

Nope. Froogle auto indexed some of my store with no problem. As for the new feed that plans to provide it will also not matter. Some of our items are listed with image names like 1222.gif and others are findingnemo-dory.gif. No difference to Froggle at all.

Some people may tell you that using "keywords" in your image names may help rankings, and it might, but I don't think it would make a huge difference. Just my opinion here thou.

I think it's pretty much whatever is easier for you. Personally I like to just use item numbers. It makes it much easier to locate what I'm looking for and keeps the file names relatively small.

This is great to know cuz I JUST signed up for the Froogle-ing and was dreading whatever the 'data feed' was...


Terri

We are Beta testing the new MonsterCommerce Froogle Feed. Give us a few more weeks and we will deploy!

Man,

I am going to have to remember this when doing my new images, i was using the underscore.

I made the same mistake about 1 year ago... with with some of my pages and images. Still trying to pick up the pieces.

So what happens if you just put the space between the words, rather than the hyphens what would the impact be?

For example; Search for the Perfect Swing verses Search-for-the-Perfect-Swing

You can use a space if you really want. does allow spaces in the file names. However, it would then be replaced with %20. Thus a file named:

Search for the Perfect Swing

would be

Search%20for%20the%20Perfect%20Swing

I'm not sure how search engines look upon this thou.

Megan Buckley (MC staff member) just sent me a note that I thought I'd share.

".. descriptive image names have the additional benefit of being logged within Urchin Site Statistics. So, if you have requested site statistics enabled for your store, you will be able to see what the top visited images are on your site, and thus top visited products."

So, I'm going to use files names that contain the product name.

Thanks Kay... I didn't know that!

Thanks Chris. That's Good To Know%