Redirecting one image type to another. Possible?

Redirecting one image type to another. Possible? - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the Redirecting one image type to another. Possible? error on your web browser. Problem :

I have a humor site that is based primarily on thumbnails and gifs. I'm in the process of converting all png's -> jpeg and gifs -> webm to save bandwidth and disk space. All in all probably about 10k images of each file type will be converted.

My questions are:

1) Can I 301 redirect to a completely different file type? png -> jpeg for example.

2) Should I expect to loose some SEO traffic?

3) What happens to my existing backlinks? My social networks have amassed a large following and I don't want my old content to be unusable.

Solution :

Doing a 301 redirect, you should be fine. I would not try and redirect each image by name, but rather make sure that each new image has the same name, just another file extension. This should make redirecting a simple regex operation.

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You don't necessarily need to externally redirect.

You could keep the (URL) filename the same and either internally rewrite to the actual .jpg file, or just make sure you send the correct Content-Type header. It is, after all, the mime-type that determines the file type, not the file extension (although this might be a bit confusing).

Obviously if you don't change the filenames then nothing changes from a client's perspective. Client-side caching should be unaffected and no change to SEO.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the seo, redirects, images error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!