Anything on those paginated pages won’t be indexed, including your images. However, if you include Media in your sitemap and don’t have Media set to noindex, then it’s possible Google will index your image files through their attachment pages.
if i add image files url on the sitemap. can google indexed my images? so my sitemap includes post url and image url. i also use noindex on Media and paginated posts.
Previously i read https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-attachment-pages/. from the answer even we use Noindex on Media, it only effect on attachment post type not them image itself.
Matt Magi (@matt94gt)
I see that thanks, but would I check off “Media” I was worried that would stop images themselves from being indexed. Would that just apply to the media attachment URL?
Plugin AuthorMichael Torbert (@hallsofmontezuma)
WordPress Virtuoso
That’s just the attachment post type, not the image itself.