Images with a token in the url, in Drupal. How does it affect to SEO?

[teconsite]

Hi everyone!

I am checking now a website that works with Drupal, and I found that images have urls like this...

http://www.brandname.com/sites/default/files/styles/directory_xyz/public/name-of-the-picture.png?itok=T89RpzrK

I was wondering how an URL like that with the token at the and, can affect to SEO. I cound't find anything.

Anyone knows?

Thank you!

[QRN]

Hello Umar,

I am about in the same situation as teconsite.

I would suspect that the search engine will ignore the ?itok token because it's a well known URL parameter and therefore the search engines will assume that they mustn't take it into account. Or do you think, they will consider image.jpg?itok=1 and image.jpg?itok=2 as two different images?

Would it make sens to specify this in the Search Console/GWT as URL parameter?

Thanks for your help in advance!

[teconsite]

Thank you Umar!

I will try that module,

[UmarKhan]

Hello,

Well this is what Durpal is.. I reckon, they introduced this in D7 version 2 or 3 years ago for some security reasons.

Anyway, try out this Durpal module for this, it creates the search engine friendly URLs for various kinds of content. I am sure it will help:
https://www.drupal.org/project/pathauto

Umar