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Dario Ferreira
Attleboro, MA
Internet Marketing & SEO

No.
It does not matter where your website images are stored.

It would only matter if the images are slow to be downloaded, thus slowing down the site.

Jan 24, 2019 01:51 PM
Rainmaker
1,725,996
Sandy Padula & Norm Padula, JD, GRI
HomeSmart Realty West & Florida Realty Investments - , CA
Presence, Persistence & Perseverance

Not sure about the SEO, but when I was an astronaut, I discovered redundancy is a lifesaver

Jan 24, 2019 01:43 PM
Rainmaker
5,772,575
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

I am with Dario Ferreira .  I know that photos may slow down the site, however in luxury photos make the site.  It works for us and our clients.  A

Jan 24, 2019 01:57 PM
Rainmaker
921,504
Annette Lawrence , Palm Harbor, FL 727-420-4041
ReMax Realtec Group - Palm Harbor, FL
Making FLORIDA Real Estate EZ

A slow loading or non-mobile compliant website will pay a really big SEO penalty.

There are format and technologies solutions that do not necessarily require a hosting website. However, having backups somewhere is always a great idea.

 

 

 

Jan 24, 2019 02:09 PM
Rainmaker
547,327
Steven Nickens
Hawaii Life Real Estate Brokers - Wailea, HI
R(S)GRI ABR, Maui Real Estate Hawaii

On my IDX pages, I store them on Pinterest.

Jan 24, 2019 09:18 PM
Rainmaker
1,502,998
Ryan Huggins - Thousand Oaks, CA
https://HugginsHomes.com - Thousand Oaks, CA
Residential Real Estate and Investment Properties

The only benefit is to page speed load if this other site is a content delivery network (CDN).  Those are often MUCH faster than what you can do and the content gets copied around the country or world (depending on your plan) so that visitors get the images from the closest server to them.

 

If you can get a subdomain like "CDN.YourSite.com" it's better for SEO than safhasofhsa2348329.cloudfront.net or "YoursiteCDN.com" as any links to the photos will go back to your root domain.

Jan 24, 2019 03:52 PM
Rainmaker
1,844,291
Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
Real Estate Broker Retired

Same as Dario said.

Jan 24, 2019 02:22 PM
Ambassador
3,345,091
Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist
KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA
Probate Real Estate Services

I store on my own site.  I make sure to resize and compress photos so it does not bog down the site and load time. 

Jan 24, 2019 02:14 PM
Rainmaker
2,817,671
Debbie Gartner
The Flooring Girl - White Plains, NY
The Flooring Girl & Blog Stylist -Dynamo Marketers

I'm late to the party, but was about to say the same thing as Dario.

 

And, I'll add that if page speed is the issue, there are ways to adapt that w/ better hosting, CDN and image compression.  I do not embed my images.  and, I do leverage the alt tags in them.

Feb 01, 2019 04:59 PM
Rainmaker
249,105
Denise Copeland
Home Sales Palm Beach - Jupiter, FL
Jupiter Abacoa Sales & Beach Front Luxury Homes

If the external server has a higher bandwidth it would be beneficial. Other than that, I don't know any other reason.

Jan 25, 2019 01:48 PM
Rainmaker
2,220,323
Anthony Acosta - ALLATLANTAcondos.com
Harry Norman, REALTORS® - Atlanta, GA
Associate Broker

You have many great answers here.

Jan 25, 2019 05:01 AM
Ambassador
5,049,108
Jeff Dowler, CRS
eXp Realty of California, Inc. - Carlsbad, CA
The Southern California Relocation Dude

I’m with Dario Ferreira 

Jan 24, 2019 06:54 PM
Ambassador
6,393,404
Bob Crane
Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI
Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Good question, it may vary by what site you have them on.

Jan 24, 2019 05:07 PM
Rainmaker
7,836,134
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

No idea.

Jan 24, 2019 02:08 PM
Rainmaker
2,390,620
Bob "RealMan" Timm
Ward County Notary Services - Minot, ND
Owner of Ward Co Notary Services retired RE Broker

Great question Dave Martin (703) 585-4687 I will be eager to see the experts like Debbie Gartner answer this one.

Jan 24, 2019 01:38 PM
Rainmaker
5,868,538
Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

I wouldn't think so.

Jan 28, 2019 06:47 AM
Rainmaker
3,986,258
William Feela
WHISPERING PINES REALTY - North Branch, MN
Realtor, Whispering Pines Realty 651-674-5999 No.

I keep my pics on a separate drive

Jan 26, 2019 08:36 PM
Rainmaker
5,216,398
Wayne Martin
Wayne M Martin - Chicago, IL
Real Estate Broker - Retired

Beyond my paygrade. Parked and reading.

Jan 26, 2019 04:39 AM
Rainmaker
5,583,278
Barbara Todaro
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Happily Retired - Franklin, MA
Previously Affiliated with The Todaro Team

I have professional photos of each listing on a memory stick.... I have one stick on each laptop.... 

Jan 25, 2019 10:40 AM
Rainmaker
1,239,901
Sam Shueh
(408) 425-1601 - San Jose, CA
mba, cdpe, reopro, pe

No the images need to be labeled. home #1, home #2 so the scrubber can digest and rank the quality of images.

Jan 25, 2019 08:19 AM
Rainmaker
4,800,082
Gabe Sanders
Real Estate of Florida specializing in Martin County Residential Homes, Condos and Land Sales - Stuart, FL
Stuart Florida Real Estate

Highly doubtful.

Jan 25, 2019 07:42 AM
Rainmaker
2,241,053
Andrew Mooers | 207.532.6573
MOOERS REALTY - Houlton, ME
Northern Maine Real Estate-Aroostook County Broker

Nope. Other than slower than death loads when lights dim in your house or an entire community is knocked off grid into blackness. There is a benefit from adding your blog post image to pinterest with the "havest" from the post not just a pin upload. Red rover red rover bring it in and over from the blog post url to appear for SEO value. Linkage is a good thing. People search under image, video, map, etc and use the other tabs to the right of just website url option too. So you want to be showing up on top and in that first screen full ta da for all the information vending machine selection options.

Jan 25, 2019 04:23 AM
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5,230,051
Debe Maxwell, CRS
Savvy + Company (704) 491-3310 - Charlotte, NC
The RIGHT CHARLOTTE REALTOR!

I host them on my website and add the link in other places.

Jan 24, 2019 09:50 PM
Rainmaker
4,434,127
Gita Bantwal
RE/MAX Centre Realtors - Warwick, PA
REALTOR,ABR,CRS,SRES,GRI - Bucks County & Philadel

No idea 

Jan 24, 2019 05:27 PM
Rainmaker
5,104,931
Nina Hollander, Broker
Coldwell Banker Realty - Charlotte, NC
Your Greater Charlotte Realtor

Never gave this any thought and not sure where you store pictures has any bearing.

Jan 24, 2019 02:10 PM