image on Welcome to Page is it bad for seo
 

Under text_welcome or Welcome to area, I have text about the company and I am planning to Add an Image. Would be bad for SEO? I am using xcart 4.3.1 Neon Lights Music.

Re: image on Welcome to Page is it bad for seo
 

Images are not bad for SEO, they don't help but they don't hurt either.

Ask your self this, will the image help sell my products, if the answer is yes add it.

now, too many images can hurt page load times, so make sure you test. Most images can be optimized to load fast.

Firebug has a cool google page speed add on.

Ash

Re: image on Welcome to Page is it bad for seo
 

Thank you for pointing out the firebug google speed. that's a great tool. My site is 73/100 before adding the image. Is that good?

Re: image on Welcome to Page is it bad for seo
 

It's ok, with a little work, you can get it up to the 90s. The 1 image shouldn't hurt the speed much at all.

Re: image on Welcome to Page is it bad for seo
 

I tried to add image but nothing show up. I use webmode and added:

<img src="{$ImagesDir}/pilot.jpg

I loaded it the picture at store2/skin1/images/ and nothing show up. Where am I supposed to load the picture at?

Re: image on Welcome to Page is it bad for seo
 

try

<img src="{$ImagesDir}/pilot.jpg" />

make sure image is named correctly not pilot.JPG or pilot.jpeg

then run www.yourstorename.com/cleanup.php

this will clear template cache

post URL

Re: image on Welcome to Page is it bad for seo
 

Thank you again for taking the time to help me. I did run the www.yourstorename.com/cleanup.php

but my picture still have bad link as follow:
www.yourstorename.com/store2/%7B$ImagesDir%7D/pilot.jpg

Re: image on Welcome to Page is it bad for seo
 

did you replace yourstorename with the name of your website?

Re: image on Welcome to Page is it bad for seo
 

please post the URL to the page with the image.

Re: image on Welcome to Page is it bad for seo
 

Re: image on Welcome to Page is it bad for seo
 

for some reason the variable {$ImagesDir} is not being parsed. Need to check the config and make sure that this is the correct variable.

Re: image on Welcome to Page is it bad for seo
 

This is what helpdesk answer:

2 I've inspected your cart and found out that you added the following code to the value of the 'txt_welcome' language variable:

<img height="480" src="{$ImagesDir}/pilot.jpg" width="640" />

Smarty tags (i.e. "{$ImagesDir}") cannot be used in the values of the language variables.
I replaced the code with this:

<img src="skin1/images/pilot.jpg" width="640" height="480" />

and that solved the issue.