Awesome! yea I submitted them to bing and google by hand, I just figured it couldn't hurt to have it in my robots too.

Appreciate the feedback

Hello,

I have a hopefully simple question but I wanted to ask to get a "second opinion" on what to do in this situation. I am working on a clients robots.txt and we have multiple sitemaps. Using yoast I have my sitemap_index.xml and I also have a sitemap-image.xml I do put them in google and bing by hand but wanted to have it added into the robots.txt for insurance. So my question is, when having multiple sitemaps called out on a robots.txt file does it matter if one is before the other? From my reading it looks like you can have multiple sitemaps called out, but I wasn't sure the best practice when writing it up in the file.

Example:

User-agent: *

Disallow: 

Disallow: /cgi-bin/

Disallow: /wp-admin/

Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/

Sitemap: http://sitename.com/sitemap_index.xml

Sitemap: http://sitename.com/sitemap-image.xml

Thanks a ton for the feedback, I really appreciate it! :) 
J

Good idea! I appreciate the time and feedback, Thank you!

I will try what you said on a few slider images and see if it shows the images when crawled. Maybe I can pop the the same images as the links out on some of them so they are still being used on the page and not lose too much "juice"

Hello again,

I have received an update request where they want me to remove images from this site (as of now its a bunch of thumbnails) current page design: http://1stimpressions.com/portfolio/car-wraps/

and turn it into a new design which utilized a slider (such as this): http://1stimpressions.com/portfolio/

They don't want the thumbnails on the page anymore. My question is since my site has a image sitemap that has been indexed will removing all the images hurt my SEO greatly? What would the recommended steps to take to reduce any SEO damage be, if so?

Thank you again for your help, always great and very helpful feedback!

cheers!