Morning, I’m trying another platform out as well as being on here.. but I’ve been told I need to name my photos to optimise google search before I upload them.. to be honest I’ve never known this before it’s all very new to me even though I’ve been selling on line since 2010 appx is it something new or have I been missing something all this time..
It’s giving me a headache 
lol to be honest
I have never changed mine but reading it does recommend it. The only thing I would be concerned about how does that impact more than one selling platform.
Folksy automatically renames our images so it includes the listing title because a large number of sellers didn’t/don’t give their images meaningful/relevant titles. Its not new.
@Caroleecrafts my thoughts exactly.. it’s something I’ve never come across but is beneficial I’ve read for SEO, but a bit of a pain if using more than one selling platform..
Thx for your reply 
I’ve alway named my images/photos, also donean Alt description since the late 90’s . I keep all my phots/images in folders 
on my computer storage, each of my items has its own folder with the corresponding images in that folder, each inage is named such as ’ Great Wave notebook front cover’ next one is ‘Great Wave notebook back cover’ and so on and so forth. I use the same photos on all my selling platforms. I also keep all the original photos (from the camera) with their original reference info , so I can prove their are my images if some one copies them to use on their selling platform. When I had my own picture framing business, I found that a sports company had copied some of my images showing framed sports shirts, I emailed them at 8am to tell them they had untill noon to take the photos down from their website, they informed me they had by 10.30, I thanked them for doing it and informed them I would be checking their website in the future.
Folksy rename puts so much and so long a string of useless stuff in front of the name that the Meaningful
Part is lost in the abyss.
I do not keep any images as would have far to many if need an extra one, just save from my Folksy shop. Pay enough on iCloud now without adding my item images.
Google tells me in no uncertain terms that photos need to have meaningful names.
Commonsense and a professional IT background tells me that is a good idea as the photos are loaded from my laptop and not much use storing hundreds thousands even, of photos on there which I can’t quickly find.
My sales proves to me that meaningfully named photos, at least where the meaningful bit is at the front of the name where the search engines can find it and not lost behind a meaningless lengthy prefix, work. Ie. Meaningful on my other shop site = constant sales beating sales here handsdown.
Thank you @JOYSofGLASS that’s very interesting to know…I’ve just never heard of it before..
It makes sense to label the way your new outlet states, the Folksy converted labels are more long-winded. And I’ve done the same as you, joined another site to run alongside Folksy and added the labels as instructed and yes, it is time-consuming. However, 4 months down the line and I’ve had no significant take up in comparison - neither shop gets that much interest. And I’ve come to realise the the set-up on Folksy is SO much easier to do!
I don’t rename any of mine, I cant see the point if Folksy renames them anyway but I don’t sell on another platform either.
I label my photos as I pull them in from my camera . Takes seconds but once done I can find any photo in my very extensive photo library in seconds .
They’re all labelled and filed so I can find them easily for my use for the 90% of sales I get at craft fairs and facebook - these same labels for online sales have been fine for the 200+ Folksy items as they do it. Now I have another shop and proportionally that’s very few items, they get labelled their way as and when they’re added to that shop - I wouldn’t want 1000’s of pieces done that way as it doesn’t suit me or my cataloguing system that’s been in place for 20 years (and devising and using cataloguing systems is what I did in my paid life for many years.) It’s a pain to alter but it is for an extremely small proportion of what I do, so I just get on with it.
Does F rename the. If we have already renamed. If so a waste of time renaming for them to be renamed on listing. Hope that makes sense.
The folksy system keeps your name but adds such a long meaningless prefix that I cannot be relieve any search engine ever gets as far as the lovely name you gave it. 
Thanks Joy will not bother then just ensure my tags are good, which must be as get sales.
Correction. Folksy nowadays completely ignores the image names that we upload and instead replaces it with the listing title…prefixed by the location on the server and suffixed by the shop name
Eg my hedgehog
: i-c5c97a09-afa4-4668-aad0-8cfd58439c51-hedgehog-suncatcher-stained-glass-handmade-gift-joysofglass
Before we were very sadly changed to Avif (which I personally hate as the images are nowadays totally useless for downloading as they are all named display.avif and no standard software on my laptop will open them but that’s another matter) the images as i remember retained my carefully named photo names including the .jpg.