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Originally Posted by brandonstills
I don't know about SEO but notwithstanding, don't put the images elsewhere. Bandwidth is a non-issue. You can use CloudFlare's free CDN to cache them if you are concerned with the hosting fees from bandwidth. Also, OVH has extremely cheap bandwidth if that is your concern.
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This is absolutely right...i had a big issue with excessive bandwidth usage for years until i started to use CloudFlare.
About the imgur, it is against their rules to use their bandwith...i lost all gifs from one of my websites when imgur forbade hotlinking... i was getting big amount of traffic for a couple of months so they noticed that and my website was banned...
About the SEO, you dont have to worry...just do not exaggerate with number of gifs per page... keep your page sizes bellow 20mb and everything will be okay...keep the full sized gifs on homepage and archives if you want to be crawled properly by SE...small and low quality pics and thumbnails are not good for SEO
If you decided to create GIF website than you should offer gifs to people, not pics or thumbnails