Any idea why our sitemap images aren't indexed?
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Here's our sitemap:
http://www.driftworks.com/shop/sitemap/dw_sitemap.xml
In google webmaster tools, I can see the sitemap report and it says: Items:Web Submitted:2,798 Indexed:2,910 Items:Images Submitted:3,178 Indexed:0
Do you have any idea why our images are not being indexed according to webmaster tools? I checked a few of the image URLs and they worked nicely. Thanks in advance,
J
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Hi, Keri Margret
I am agree with you that Harald's reply doesn't make too much sense or it doesnt give clear ideas about the main question "why my all images are not indexed in Google Webmaster Tools?"
I have the same question as your. I have Submitted 21,442 Images for www.vistastores.com but only 11,762 are indexed!!!
You can see it on below image.
So Harald can you plz give exact & clear answer to us
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I myself haven't submitted an image site map before, as I have a small site and the images seem to be picked up just fine. When I go to images.google.com and do a site search for your domain, I do see a large number of results (http://images.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=871&q=site%3Adriftworks.com), so your images are being indexed. If I limit the site search query to images within the /shop folder, I see 73 results.
I'm guessing you've looked at Google's help at http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178636 and http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178644 regarding image site maps and troubleshooting site maps, respectively.
I'll check with the other associates to see who has image sitemap experience and can add to this thread.
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Hi Harald,
I'm sorry to say it, but your reply doesn't make too much sense. Can you try rephrasing it?
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Hi James, As you know that these issues are always remain because we have seen number of times that the if the website have number of pages then you will find that ,out of these number of pages some of the pages are indexed .i. e the number of pages are indexes are less as compares to number of pages in your sitemap. This is the only problem for which the Google themselves are not sure whether it will index all the number of pages it the sitemap.
Google also having the same issues with the sitemap images, they won't directly index the images from the sitemap but hey will indexed it indirectly.i.e they index the page that would have image in it.
This is cleared from the above that direct sitemap images would not be indexed.
This is not the only issue that I had seen but I had seen it number of times that if there are number of images in your sitemap then only few percentage of it are indexed but if you want to indexed it all the sitemap images then you should have to create the number of back links but one thing should be kept in mind that we have to create a quality back links because If we created the quality back links then it will helps to increase the ranking & all the sitemap images are indexed.
I hope that your query had been solved.
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