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I've built my own website with Wordpress and have finally improved the SEO so I pop up on lots of first pages in my area.
Part of that process was to re-encode my images and to give each one a meaningful file name that would be based on keywords that I'd like Google to see.
Part of my work is advertising, so I may have titled an image "advertising photography in Uxbridge by Lee Christiansen"
It seems that at least one of the popular (and free) advert blockers that you can download for Firefox decides to block images with the word advert or advertising in the file title. And this ad blocker is the first option offered when you go to the Firefox add-ons sction, so I'm guessing it will be quite popular. (unBlock Origin)
For some reason Safari also was blocking the same images, (I have it synced with Firefox so maybe that is why).
The second I removed the ad blocker, my images would re-appear. Funnily enough, those images would also be blanked out when I was looking at the media library in my Wordpress dashboard.
I don't have the ad blocker on some laptops, so have been blisfully unaware of this issue - thinking my site is working just fine. But when there is a problem, all the thumbnails don't display and when a viewer advances to the next image they may just get a blank screen.
So I changed the word "advert" or "advertising" to something else and all was fine.
It may be worth checking our websites to see if there are unknown issues. It took much headscratching to find out where the problem lay, and if I'd not seen it I would have had a badly functioning site (that may have hurt my SEO) for years...
There, that's my good deed for the month/year. Santa will have to give me something nice now...
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