With SEO in mind – should Images link to ‘none’ or to ‘media file’?

n Yoast settings I have left ‘ redirect attachment urls to the attachment itself’ at default setting of enabled. So that presumably tales care of attachment pages. But here’s a question I can’t get an answer to, not even on Yoast forum here.
In ‘attachment display settings’, out of the four options, I have traditionally set my images inserted to posts to link to the media file itself – the url that Yoast indexes. Is it advisable to link to ‘none’from an SEO point of view, or does it make any difference? It has only occurred to me that unless I want a visitor to specifically click on the image to – say -enlarge it, then it is of no value to use that option. I read that setting links to ‘none’ helps avoid bounces but there isn’t a great deal on that subject on the web. I have – ahem .. about 7000 images to change if this is the case. Image SEO is a big thing for me as it accounts for 30% of all Google searches.

• This topic was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Glamourdaze.
• This topic was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Glamourdaze.

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