User blog comment:Cnoteboat/The Importance of Search Engine Optimization/@comment-452-20150126192824

I generally don't care about SEO, but one thing I do do is create lots of redirects for search purposes, and use those redirects as links whenever that term is more relevant in context over the actual page name.

Question: Is there any negative effect on SEO for using redirects?

People have claimed this in the past, but I think that it's a load of malarkey. I've confirmed through monthly googling that using redirects for alternate titles definitely improve google results for those alternate titles, but I did not witness a negative effect for the actual page title in the results.

As far as I can tell, the Canonical_link_element should overcome any problems of a search engine confusing the redirect with the real page title.


 * Images: the importance of description

Question: Has your research indicated any significance of using a descriptive filename?

Examples:
 * 1234567890.png
 * Queen_of_England.png
 * Queen_of_England_at_a_the_opening_ceremony_of_the_Olympics_in_London.png