If I use timthumb.php for reducing images and posting them automatically with the appropiate size on my website sounds fantastic. Saves a lot of work.
But would that affect the results in http://images.google.com ? Let's say I have a photo named "my-dalmatian-dog.jpg" and then I apply tinthumb.php..it would be changed to some other name...and I dont know if the search results would be that great.
what would be the result of using this, in terms of SEO ?
You can always rewrite your URLs so that they look like the original. For example, you could make timthumb.php?filename=my-dalmatian-dog.jpg look like /images/thumb/my-dalmatian-dog.jpg using an Apache rewrite rule like this:
RewriteRule ^images/thumb/(.*) timthumb.php?filename=$1
I did figure out on how to redirect it albeit then it doesn't covert the images... I mean it redirects to the image source but simultaneously it doesn't resize them...
RewriteRule ^[-a-z0-9_]+/[-a-z0-9_]+/([0-9]+)/?$ /story.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)?src=(.*)&w=(.*)&h=(.*)&zc=(.*)&q=(.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*/timthumb\.php)?$ %2 [R=301,L]
Seems like it has to be done from within the timthumb.php file itself. It gotta see when an image is being called to resize and when is it called for indexing by robots etc...
Can anyone find a flexible solution here?