Does Google follows pics url?

I mean like the link behind the pic not the pic link :)

[security56]

This is a newbie question, but I was wondering since I added some icons to my forums, and the icons and the regular links takes you to the same url but with two different urls.

I was wondering if google bot follow pics urls?

[ruchirasharma]

Google reads source code and if your pic is hyperlinked to the URL, Google will certainly follow the "a href" tag.

Google will not follow a link which is written(drawn)in the image itself.

[WiseWebDude]

Yes, they do follow the href tags, BUT they have no clue what the link is unless you use image alt tags.

[security56]

thanks guys,
So there is a possibility I might get penalize for duplicate content?
That's my main concern

[jimbeetle]

BUT they have no clue what the link is unless you use image alt tags.

Use the alt attribute [w3.org] to give a text alternative to the image. Use the title attribute [w3.org] to give information about the link.

So there is a possibility I might get penalize for duplicate content?

For what reason?

[security56]

Because there is also a text link to the same page
It kindna look like this
[Pic] Text Link
The thing is that the Pic Url and the Text Link Url are different, its a phpbb forums thing :) but both take you to the same page.

Basically I am scare that since both Urls take you to the same page, but yet the Url itsel its different like this
The pic url would look like this
[mysite.com...]
and the text url look like this
[mysite.com...]

yet they will tak you to the same place :)

I jsut going to try to modefied the pic so it wont have a url to be safe :)

[jimbeetle]

The thing is that the Pic Url and the Text Link Url are different, its a phpbb forums thing :) but both take you to the same page.

Ah, I missed the reference to that in the first post. I have no idea why the URL would have to be different and why using just one shouldn't work, but then again I'm not really that familiar with phpbb.

And you're definitely right to be concerned as the way it's set up would cause duplicates. Somebody around here who uses phpbb should be able to tell you what's what.

[security56]

jimbeetle thanks, I just did a little moding and took the url from the pics :) to be safe

[jimbeetle]

Great, as long as there's only one URL pointing to the same content, well, you're gold.

[thecoalman]

A standard phpbb install is a minefield of duplicate URL's. I'm assuming by your example your referring to the post icon that will take you directly to an individual post on a page. Although that is probably the most prevalent one there are many others through pagination, quote button, post reply, search etc. The list is endless.

Just to give you an idea I started cleaning up the mess I had about 8 or 9 months back, from what amounted to 400 pages of truly unique content there was somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 pages indexed. The majority of which were supplemental and rightly so, most of the good content was buried or not even indexed at all... I bit the bullet, made a many positive modifications and just now am finally starting to see results.

There are many mods specifically for phpbb2 that address all of these problems, there is one author offereing a complete suite aiming for 0 duplicates (haven't visited in while so don't know if he achieved it yet), unique descriptions and relevant keywords...etc. but more importantly it will be supported for phpbb3. I'd post the link but I'm sure it's not allowed, anyhow if you search for it I'm sure you'll find it.

[security56]

thecoalman can you pm it please
Thanks