Image Relay serves the product images on your affiliate site from your own domain — so Google credits your site for them, not Amazon or the affiliate network. No downloads, no disk bloat, no broken hotlinks.
Get your API keyEvery affiliate site does the same thing: it fills its pages with images hosted on
m.media-amazon.com and the CDNs of the affiliate networks. Google sees those images,
indexes them — and attributes them to their domain, not yours. Your pages carry
someone else's content, load at the mercy of someone else's servers, and earn none of the
image-search visibility.
Every remote image is served from img.yourdomain.com with a clean,
keyword-rich filename like /hornby-salmon-wagon.webp. Google Images indexes it as yours.
Automatic WebP conversion, on-the-fly resizing for every screen size, and long-lived edge caching. Smaller images, better Core Web Vitals.
Your posts keep their original links in the database. The swap happens only as each page is served — switch the plugin off and your site is exactly as it was.
If a source image ever disappears or blocks us, visitors are transparently sent to the original. Your pages never show broken images.
The WordPress plugin scans your posts, pages and product types every hour, finds new remote images, and enrols them automatically.
One account covers all your sites — WordPress or not. A single-file PHP client (or five lines of code in any language) works anywhere.
img.yourdomain.com/<id>/your-keywords.webp
instead of Amazon's URL — resized, converted to WebP and cached.| Hotlinking Amazon | Downloading images | Image Relay | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google credits your domain | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Zero disk space used | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| WebP + responsive sizes | ❌ | Manual | ✅ automatic |
| Survives source images vanishing | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ auto-fallback |
| Reversible in one click | — | ❌ | ✅ |
Does this improve my rankings? It puts your images on your own domain with SEO filenames, WebP and fast delivery — the things Google's own image SEO guidelines ask for. Like anything in SEO, nobody can guarantee positions.
Is it allowed? You remain responsible for having the right to display the images you use — the same as when hotlinking or downloading them. Image Relay only changes how they are delivered.
What if your servers go down? Pages fall back to the original image URLs automatically. Your site never depends on us to stay readable.
Can I use my own subdomain? Yes — point img.yourdomain.com
at us with a CNAME and your image URLs never mention anyone else.