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Old 04-15-2008, 11:43 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Hey Debra,

Oh Yes. That is true. Yahoo image links change about once a week. I used to know the frequency, but I dont remember it any more... But Yahoo does change them weekly. The reason - images pulling from the store are a strain on their servers, and virtually no benefit to them.

We can program something that would put a copy of all the images on your webhosting account, where they would never change, and you could provide a static link to them. other than that, you don't really have any other option. Google for example understands how yahoo stores work, so when Google Base picks up your store, they make a static image copy on their servers, and that is how they get around it.
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