SEO-Separate Image Naming For Same Images

Here is the concern. We build websites that can be rather large, where identical images are used throughout the site (but named differently for SEO). Blogs, location pages, and even programs can share the same image (usually because there are only so many photos available to choose from the client library). Usually, in every other CMS, you can upload the same image as many times as you want using a graphic with a different filename for SEO purposes.

However, Webflow says you have to make tiny edits to every identical image so Weflow doesn’t replace the image you have already uploaded. We found this out the hard way when we uploaded the same image with different SEO friendly file names, it would just get replace the old one that was an identical image.

This seems pretty odd, seeing as how all other builders don’t prevent this. Is there a workaround other than spending a ton of time tracking how many different micro edits I need to make on the same image? This seems very counterproductive and looking to spot either what I am missing or if there is a tool to allow this application to play ball.

Thank you for any thoughts or suggestions that could help!

Unfortunately no. The closest you could get natively is to use your own external image storage like S3 or Cloudflare R2 and then use custom elements as your image elements.

Beyond that it’s either hosting your site externally, or a reverse proxy.

Since SEO is your primary concern though, it’s probably advantageous to have your images under the same domain anyway. Cloudflare R2 is good for this, I usually create an assets.mydomain.com subdomain for the purposes of large file storage or better SEO.

With a reverse proxy you could even put them under an /images/ subdir.