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[tonycch]

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.

[ARW VISIONS]

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

[tonycch]

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?

[ARW VISIONS]

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.

[tonycch]

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?

[ARW VISIONS]

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

[tonycch]

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

[ARW VISIONS]

did you replace yourstorename with the name of your website?

[ARW VISIONS]

please post the URL to the page with the image.

[tonycch]

http://www.yourstore.com/home.php