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Will replacing product images that are almost 10 years old hurt SEO?

Hi All,

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We are working on an ecommerce website that is almost 10 years old and needs a refresh. We are going to be changing the existing theme but keeping the URL structure the same for products, posts, categories, etc. In preparing for this upgrade, we have decided to take higher quality pictures of the products and change the existing images on the website.

So if product A has 5 images, we will be removing all of these images and replacing them with 5 or less new ones. We will enter new title tags, alt tags, etc.

My Question - Is this suicide from an SEO standpoint? We would be removing/replacing all product images with new ones that are higher quality and hopefully optimized to load faster. The website ranks really well for the keywords needed (top 3 positions) and I'm curious if removing the crawled images by google for the past 10 years will be a hit and not something I should mess with.

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Thank you.

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