However in doing so  I realized that the jpgs were called things like
44_002.jpg  and I thought it be smarter to rename the jpgs also to be
what they are?  Like "security_monitor.jpg" etc  SoI did so for
index.html and also index_files so they matched for example.

This morning I noticed Google has crawled, and the caches are showing
a blank space where the photos are.

Did I do something wrong?
Should I not have done one or both of these things?
Will the cached jpgs show up a few crawls from now?

The site looks fine for viewers and I don't want to do them any
disservice with Google

Thanks for any feed back

Google will look for it in the previous index but
as the URL to the image changed it can't find
the graphic to display. That is why I suppose it is
blank.

I would expect it to come back eventually as
Google learns and indexes the new image URL.

Hmmm, Maybe you could help it along by
adding a 301 redirect from the old image
URL to the new. I have not tried that but it
makes sense and I can't see where it could hurt.

If you are getting impatient maybe give
that a try.

All the best,
Abracadabra
On May 10, 10:44 am, tickleslapmusic wrote:

As Abracadabra explained, the problem is that although Google is
holding the cache image of your page as it was when crawled, it is not
holding copies of each of the images - it pulls those in from your
site at the time the cache is VIEWED.

I would advise against using a 301 because this is a TEMPORARY
situation and there is a much simpler solution.

You could just wait until googlebot recrawls the site and sees the
updated image URLs, bearing in mind that few people look at the cache
anyway if the current site is available.

If you want to fix it immediately, just identify which images are
"missing" and upload fresh copies of the same images but using the old
filenames.  It is entirely harmless to have two identical images, one
called "dsc_0123456.jpg" and the other called "cctv-camera.jpg".

Robbo

Oh BTW, Look at your head section - you have an unclosed     <meta
name="description"

That is probably unrelated but is might make googlebot less willing to
reindex your page.  Not likley - but no point in taking an unnecessary
risk for something fixed so easily.

as long as I've done no harm, I think maybe I'll wait a few more
crawls to see if Google finds the jpgs at with their new file names
and file paths.

Thanks to you both.
I really appreciate this forum!
Peter

On May 10, 1:00 pm, Robbo wrote: