xml image sitemap

  • Resolved justdontknow

    (@justdontknow)


    5 months, 3 weeks ago

    I read that “XML Image Sitemap is only visible from the XML Sitemap source code.”

    Can you please advise a layman how I can find this source code?

    I am trying to figure out why my site images are no longer indexed after two decades. Checking whether the image sitemap is picking up the images to begin with seems like a place to start..

    Thank you.

    • This topic was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by justdontknow.
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  • Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    5 months, 3 weeks ago

    Hi,

    the xml image sitemaps help search engines to discover your images.

    However, if all of your images are no longer indexed, you should check your meta robots first.

    To see the source code, open a sub-sitemap, then right click “View source code”.

    Thread Starter justdontknow

    (@justdontknow)

    5 months, 3 weeks ago

    Hi Benjamin,

    Thank you for the reply.

    Now I understand: the images are in the same sitemap, but only visible in the source code of that sitemap. I know you explain this in the plugin, but I was too dense to get that you meant the images are listed in the in the source code of the sitemap, and not in the source code of a separate sitemap.

    I can see that the images are indeed all listed there.

    As far as I can tell, robots.txt has no directives blocking search engines from crawling images.

    Major Search Engines and Known Friendly Spiders (allowed)

    User-Agent: *
    Disallow: /cgi-bin/
    Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
    Disallow: /order.php
    Disallow: /function.include$
    Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
    Disallow: /readme.html
    Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
    Sitemap: https://meteorlightsDOTcom/sitemap.xml

    So, thank you for great plugin, and for helping me rule out the sitemap as a possible cause of the image deindexing.


    • This reply was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by justdontknow.
    • This reply was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by justdontknow.
    Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    5 months, 2 weeks ago

    Thank you for this update.

    I’m glad it works.

    You can read this ebook to help you debug the image indexing issue: https://www.seopress.org/support/ebooks/more-visibility-with-image-seo/

    Thread Starter justdontknow

    (@justdontknow)

    5 months, 2 weeks ago

    Thanks, the ebook looks like a good source.

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