UPDATE: We now support a new SEO-friendly URLs feature for Cloudinary images. For more information: http://cloudinary.com/blog/how_to_dynamically_create_seo_friendly_urls_for_your_site_s_images
Below are several options available for making your Cloudinary asset URLs more SEO-friendly, feel free to choose the ones that fit your needs!
When uploading an asset, its public ID may be changed from the original file name to a random string of characters, depending on your settings. For example:
http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/8jsb1xofxdqamu2rzwt9q.jpg
You can double check your settings to use the original file name instead.
If you supply a transformation, the above URL may look something like this:
http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/w_150,h_150/8jsb1xofxdqamu2rzwt9q.jpg
Upon upload, you can tell Cloudinary to use a specific file name (public ID) instead of a random one, this will turn the URL to something like this:
http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/w_150,h_150/seo-friendly-name.jpg
You can then utilize a named transformation using Cloudinary's interactive transformation creation console, changing the URL to something like this:
http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/t_thumb/seo-friendly-name.jpg
Cloudinary also supports applying your own CNAME (available for those on the "Advanced" plan and up). For example, if you choose img.mydomain.com, the URL then becomes something like this:
http://img.mydomain.com/image/upload/t_thumb/seo-friendly-name.jpg
Cloudinary also supports supplying a folder structure to the file name when necessary, which could make your URL look something like this:
http://img.mycname.com/image/upload/books/fiction/seo-friendly-name.jpg
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We now support a new SEO friendly URLs feature for Cloudinary images. For more information:
http://cloudinary.com/blog/how_to_dynamically_create_seo_friendly_urls_for_your_site_s_images
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