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Changing filenames with webp: does it impact images SEO? #2088

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I have a website where images are very important and we get a lot of traffic from google images. When enabling webp images, Mod Pagespeed will constantly change the filenames of the images. Does that means it will have a negative impact on SEO?

If googlebot finds a webp image on my website and adds it to google images, and then some day the file name changes. I assume the ranking will be lost because google will think the image was deleted?

If images SEO is very important, should we completely disable webp rewriting?

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