[roberto]

Regarding Wordpress - when displaying a full-size image linked from a thumbnail, do you guys display that image on its own page or simply link to the .jpg file so it loads alone in the browser?

I'm assuming the former is good for SEO (especially image searches) as it allows title/alt tags and such for the full-size jpg, but then you constrain your image dimensions to the blog content area. Thoughts?

[Gaystoryman]

Originally Posted by roberto

Regarding Wordpress - when displaying a full-size image linked from a thumbnail, do you guys display that image on its own page or simply link to the .jpg file so it loads alone in the browser?

I'm assuming the former is good for SEO (especially image searches) as it allows title/alt tags and such for the full-size jpg, but then you constrain your image dimensions to the blog content area. Thoughts?

I link all full sized images in my blogs, to the sponsor or to my own sort of tgp static pages. The full sized image is sized to the content area of the blog. Gotta keep it looking nice and tidy.

Thumbnails are usually what I use on excerpts, that link to the main blog post.

My goal isn't to get the 'punter' off, as would say, but to get them hot, bothered, and reaching for that plastic. but hey, that's me, and before anyone says it, yeah I know i am weird

[gonzogone]

I don't think I have ever setup a site to have the image alone display in the browser. You might get the full image size, but you lose all the page options to make SEO possible. I've done it two ways, just depending on the site and how I'm feeling right then...

1) open it in a remote window where I can still have some on page information related to the image - down side here is that there are enough people that get confused by remote windows and think of them as popups rather than content loading... You also have to consider where the image information will come from in the page for SEO. although, thinking about it now... not sure I have done this with WP..

2) have them load on a site page and then be constrained by the theme.

I think it may end up depending on the type of site you have. With my WP sites, they are really all affiliate type sites, so I don't really have full size images to offer. My images are links to sponsor sites. Now, if you were using WP as part of a pay site where full sized images are expected because they will be downloaded, I think I would just load them in the browser and be done.

I have no idea if that helps or not!

[pete4adult]

I agree with Ian, why give them bigger images?

Tell them to click the image for a larger one and then send them onto the affiliate and hopefully get sales

[Gaystoryman]

Going to make an assumption here.

IF you are using the WP gallery, at the end of a post or such, or are using just thumbnails in your post, as a lure, then I'd set the image to load as an attachment in wp. This will load the image in full size, on a page, with the sidebars intact, I think, if I remember right.

disclaimer > it has been awhile since I used it, so try both options, in the media gallery settings for that particular post. note that particular post. Don't think that option exists in the main media settings.

[naughtyconnect]

I m interested to put image on a home page,bcoz its looks like very attractive ...............

[Tigger]

Welcome naughtyconnect

setting up an image on the index is pretty easy to resolve by having a fix page for the index or using images within the postings - The handy thing with blogs is you can play around with the settings until you get the look / display you want

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