More questions - Static images location

[sewsweet]

Okay,

I seem to have lots of questions these days. I am realizing how much I don't know
I found out that I have products listed on the TheFind.com - Shopping Search Reinvented - What can we find for you? but many of my images don't show up. I emailed to ask why and this is a portion of the response I got:

"Yahoo changes their image links quite
often and makes it difficult for sites like us to keep up with the current
and correct image. If they can give you a static link for your images that
would be tremendously helpful for us "

Is there a static link to my images for my Yahoo store? Solid Cactus did my store design. I use catalog manager to input products and their images. I just don't even know where to start looking?

Any help appreciated!

[cactus_joe]

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.

[sunil.lukose]

This had always been an issue with supplying image links to third party services as image url changes often and there isn't much that could be done other then what Joe mentioned, storing a static version on web hosting and providing those as url to these services.

[sewsweet]

Thanks as always. You all are great at answering questions!