Google does not index image sitemap
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Hi,
we put an image sitemap in the searchconsole/webmastertools
http://www.sillasdepaseo.es/sillasdepaseo/sitemap-images.xml
it contains only the indexed products and all images on the pages. We also claimed the CDN in the searchconsole
http://media.sillasdepaseo.es/
It has been 2 weeks now, Google indexes the pages, but not the images. What can we do?
Thanks in advance.
Dieter Lang
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i added it to the robots.txt, thanks for the tip, it was about 2 weeks ago
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Hi Dieter,
Hmm interesting, and you don't have any issues in the sitemaps it seems? Could you also shed some more light on when you've added the sitemap to Google Search Console?
What I would at least recommend is adding your sitemap to the robots.txt file.
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thanks guys
martijn, here ist the webmastertool answer, looks list a problem
Sitemap Type Processed Issues Items Submitted Indexed --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1 /sillasdepaseo/sitemap-images.xml Sitemap Jun 13, 2016 - Web 956 952 Images 3,345 - 2 /sillasdepaseo/sitemap.xml Sitemap Jun 13, 2016 - Web 1,127 1,098 ikkle, what do mean by test it, if i create such a clean sitemap, what should I then do with it or see?
Thanks in advance.
Dieter
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The easiest way to test this is to manually create a sitemap with 100 or so 'clean' image URLs. Just pull the messy ones into excel and use the formula below to create a clean version (Use A1 for messy, B1 for formula).
=CONCATENATE("image:imageimage:lochttp://res.cloudinary.com/greenplantswap/image/upload/",RIGHT</image:loc></image:image>(A1,LEN(A1)-(FIND("",(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"/","",(IF(LEN(TRIM(A1))=0,0,LEN(TRIM(A1))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"/",""))))))))),"")
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Hi Dieter,
What does Google Search Console show you in terms of images crawled and images indexed? Usually the images sitemap's indexation rate is way lower then the one for web pages so that would make sense. But no indexation at all would mean there's probably a problem outside of your sitemap.
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