Technical guide for Setting up a CDN to host our images, as well as creating an image sitemap, and setting up the CDN in GWT?
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Hi All!
We're thinking of setting up a CDN to host our images with a CNAME on a subdomain of our site. In terms of SEO, I was wondering if any of you knew of a pretty complete technical guide for setting it all up. Including whether or not we need to create an image sitemap, and setting it up in GWT.
Thanks in advance!
Vince
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Yeah, these articles pretty good and have all you'd need. Still, I wonder why you want to go necessarily with cdn, rather than a hosting, which provides CDN by default. From the top of my head - Google App Engine, Liquid Web and others.
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Hi Dmitri!
I perhaps worded the intro to my question the wrong way. I was looking for guidelines to set up a CDN externally, and not have it impact our SEO in a negative way. I did some further research into it, and we found a way to do it, so as to not have a negative effect on our current SEO, and make sur all images get crawled and indexed. Here are the resources we found:
1- https://www.semrush.com/blog/must-know-seo-practices-for-content-delivery-networks-cdns/
2- http://www.gauraw.com/get-google-index-website-images-using-cdn-services/
3- https://www.keycdn.com/blog/cdn-seo-indexing-images/
These resources pretty much cover all the steps necessary to achieving what I had in mind. Sorry for the erroneous wording in my original question.
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Hi there.
Why do you want to setup cdn on your own server? Can you handle the load?
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