Get Google to index all the images on a site: Now with sitemaps
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Google just released a new addition to its Sitemaps protocol today. Addition of images in sitemaps. Now you can add images from your site, that you want Google to crawl, to your sitemaps. And we have a new syntax for it.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">
<url>
<loc>http://example.com/sample.html</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>
</image:image>
</url>
</urlset>
Two interesting things here.
1 – This is in a way admitting that Google does not index images properly from a site, so it needs your help.
2 – Images are still important for search engines, and we haven’t seen the best of it.
Either way, its nice to see more updates from Google in this area. I hope Google images become awesome as websearch, sometime soon.
Hi Mani,
nice find but is there any tool for generating image sitemap ??
Wow this is going to be a great move, especially for websites that rely heavily on images (ie design sites, webcomics etc). Is there a way to include additional information, like descriptions?
Well its really a nice information regarding indexing images on google. You have also provided the code for this. Thanks for sharing all this useful information.
i am getting a decent hit from google.images. thanks Mani for the tip.
Hi Mani,
Is there any tools available for generate the sitemaps for images? Please let me know about that.
I am interested in this way, but where do I put this code for my blog, sorry because I am still learning the new blogging
Now you can add images and video in the sitemap for better indexing by google…
Thanks for the article….While publishing this post I had inserted my website link over here…and when I see the links over yahoo site explorer they are being flooded from daily bloggr… This thing is worrying …my question is this flooding of links give a bad impact on google and hence makes our site ranking low… if so how to remove the links from here?? ….
Hello, thank you for this xml sitemap!
Yes This is a good one. I appreciate your work.
I really thank you for the Code.
Indexing images and videos help in getting my website good rankings.
Some tips for Image optimization:
1) Save the file name as keyword,
2) Alt tag,
3) Same size images.