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I am having issues with indexing the images that are optimized by the Next/Image component these images are in the public folder of my Next.js app.

I haven't seen any examples where any resource/URL like below, that was generated by Next/Image component has been indexed in google image search.

This type of URL: https://www.example.com/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fhome%2FDog-image-1.jpg&w=384&q=100

The reason that these images are not getting indexed in google despite having the resource content-type: image/jpg in http header is because google needs to crawl the resource at the location root file/resource/URL like this: https://www.example.com/images/home/Dog-image-1.jpg

Why? If the http header has the correct content-type? Because google needs make sure that it knows the original resource because it is not sure how long the URL that is generated by Next/Image will stay, and it wants to avoid these kind of URL's or base64 in its image index to avoid 404 errors in the search engine to maintain a satisfactory UX, so it needs to crawl the image resource at it's location directly and it has to crawl it in the html code.

Now the question:

How is it possible to make google crawl the root resource/URL in my img tag when using the Next/Image component as well. If that's not possible Next/Image is not at all for e-commerce or other image dependent websites that depend on a lot of traffic from image search, even other websites would be reluctant in sharing your images via these URLs.

Anybody thinks a data-src attribute can solve this or something here https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next/image#minimum-cache-ttl?

Thank You for Your time.

Adam Hill
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I did it using https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next/image#unoptimized

Since Next.js 12.3.0, this prop can be assigned to all images by updating next.config.js with the following configuration:

module.exports = {
  images: {
    unoptimized: true,
  },
}

And as a result I have regular image URL https://www.example.com/images/home/Dog-image-1.jpg

tdy
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