Use descriptive image filenames

Google explicitly recommends descriptive filenames in its Image SEO best practices. A file named red-leather-wallet.jpg gives search engines context about the image content, improving discoverability in image search. Generic filenames waste this SEO signal. Descriptive names also help developers maintain large asset libraries without opening every file to identify its content.

Quick Reference

• Use descriptive, hyphen-separated filenames: hero-homepage-team-collaboration.jpg
• Avoid generic names like image1.jpg, photo.png, or camera defaults like IMG_4532.jpg
• Use lowercase only—avoid uppercase letters and spaces which can cause URL encoding issues
• Google uses filenames as a relevance signal for image search results

Check

Scan all image file references in this codebase (<img src>, CSS url(), import statements, and public/assets directories). Identify filenames that: 1) Use auto-generated names (e.g., IMG_1234.jpg, DSC_0056.png, screenshot-2024-01-01.png). 2) Use meaningless names (e.g., image1.jpg, photo.png, pic.jpg). 3) Contain spaces (e.g., 'my photo.jpg'). 4) Use underscores as word separators (e.g., hero_image.jpg instea…