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May 29, 2020 04:13 AM
I’m creating a WordPress catalog site, of which the products are stored in an Airtable database. This base remains the core of all our products, and with the use of a custom import script I’m pulling in the right data from Airtable to WordPress.
Now I’m wondering whether I should also import all images (which are stored in the Airtable product records as well) to the WordPress media library (thus duplicating them), or whether I can just use the Airtable image urls which the api is giving me. An inspection of an Airtable image url (with httpstatus.io/) tells me that Airtable serves them from Amazon S3 via Cloudfront.
On one hand I’m thinking it’s a good idea to use the airtable img urls because:
On the other hand, I also have some concerning thoughts about doing so:
dl.airtable.com
is nowhere near the domain name of the wp site. Therefore google will punish you?I should be able to do both things, I’m just wondering which one is best SEO practice (if there is any notable difference).
May 29, 2020 05:42 AM
Per this topic, Airtable does not support being used as a CDN for images in attachments.
May 29, 2020 06:52 AM
Thanks @kuovonne! That’s already something very important I should bear in mind.
Feb 08, 2023 01:33 AM
Hello Tom,
I am thinking about making Airtable my PIM solution and use it as my products database.
Did you figure it out if it was good in terms of SEO ?
Thanks 🙂