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Hi,

 

I've been using Prestashop version PrestaShop™ 1.4.6.2 and Google sitemap v1.8 by PrestaShop to generate my sitemap.xml.

 

In my webmaster tools on Google I see that lots of my pages are being indexed but not one single image is being indexed.

 

Cna anyone explain why this is happening and why nothing is being indexed? I have have 809 images submitted via the sitemap generated be Presashop.

 

Thanks and regards,

Z-GrimV

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I ask presta because I use the default prestashop google module called...Google sitemap v1.8 by PrestaShop

 

You can see that I've highlighted the bit, by PrestaShop. This leads me to believe that the module was created by prestashop and seeing as none of my images are being indexed and hundreds of my pages are being indexed I was wondering if there is something that I need to do or change or install or pray for to allow google to better index my site. Maybe I need to make an image site map or kiss a golden cow turd...who knows. That is why i asked the question.

 

Regards,

Z-GrimV

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I found that google does index my pages, but on the webmaster tools it shows that no image is indexed by the sitemap.

 

@Z-GrimV

 

Click this link:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.littlebadges.com&hl=pt-PT&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=-_dET5D4Eoiu8AP2pIWwBA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CA0Q_AUoAQ&biw=1360&bih=653

 

 

The other can go to the google search engine and then put:

 

site:www.mysite.com

 

Then choose images and you will see your images from your website.

 

 

Hope it Helps,

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Yeah, I have used the site: option before but all oof these images are thumbnails or such and not indexed images linked to any of the actual products. None of the images shown are actually linked to the name of the image or key words but rather some sort of generic image cached from the main page (random images showing in new products)

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Ello,

 

Just to test, I created a partial image site map using A1 Sitemap and submitted to Google Webmaster tools and it's already started indexing my images within a few hours. My Prestashop generated sitemap has been up for weeks and not a single image indexed.

 

There is something going on for sure with the Prestashop sitemap generator.

 

Cheers,

Mark

 

Cheers,

Mark

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I've been using sitemap v1.7.2 (presto-Changeo Fix) for months and whilst over a thousand urls are indexed not a single image has ever been indexed. Has anyone managed to get their images indexed? and if so, with which sitemap generator?

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I'm glad to see some posts from 2012, not 2009 :) Ussualy everythin I googled showed posts for earlier version of Presta wich is different from current that I use - 1.4.7

I hope that this will be solved soon, because I'm still testing it yet and preparing for first production within 1 month...

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I've been using sitemap v1.7.2 (presto-Changeo Fix) for months and whilst over a thousand urls are indexed not a single image has ever been indexed. Has anyone managed to get their images indexed? and if so, with which sitemap generator?

 

That is the same module I am using, and I try to talk with presto-changeo but he told me that it was not the module problem, to speak with google.

 

Well, the thing is, my google webmaster doesn't show any images indexed, but by using site: myurl.com my images are indexed so... I don't know more than this.

 

One thing that this module does, at least with me, is creating one duplicate url (my homepage) wich I have to edit and delete it every time I make changes on my sitemap.

 

Cheers

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Long shot but is your robots.txt blocking them being indexed?

 

Check the sitemap.xml in your browser and make sure it actually contains your images. It should be similar to:

<image:image>
   <image:loc>
       http://www.example.com/img/p/3/8/38.jpg
   </image:loc>
   <image:caption>iPod Nano</image:caption>
   <image:title>iPod Nano</image:title>
</image:image>

 

 

Google's page on sitemap images:

http://support.googl...n&answer=178636

 

If that is in your sitemap, its not an issue with Prestashop's module. As I say, check your Robots.txt, and make sure the image urls in the sitemap actually point to your image incase the URL rewrite is faulty.

 

Mark

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No, no block. robots is original Prestashop and there is no block on folder /img or something like this. Otherwise you will find this also on GG webmaster-Tools, i.e. that you are blocking images... Nothing is blocked, it's an issue of the new sitemap.xml (structure)/module.

 

Edit: I also used the testing tool for sitemap. - No errors found...

 

and goes the same pattern you wrote:

<url>
<loc>http://domain/categ/2858-product.html</loc>
<priority>0.4</priority>
<lastmod>2011-07-25</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://domain/2858-9904/product.jpg
</image:loc>
<image:caption>product</image:caption>
<image:title>product</image:title>
</image:image>
</url>

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The only difference I see is what you wrote and what the module is writing:

 

Your code:

 

  http://www.example.com/img/p/3/8/38.jpg

 

What the module is writing and what also was written before the module upgrade...

 

http://domain/2858-9904/product.jpg

 

Perhaps here is the problem ???

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Just another thing too guys, don't know how relevant this is...

 

But I just noticed one of my other sites, which is a WordPress site using WordPress SEO by Yoast for the XML file has all of the pages indexed, but not the images.

 

Maybe images take more time and something else is involved?

 

There's probably no problem at all. It could just be Google's process rather than the Prestashop XML sitemap being the problem.

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Any update?I really dont understand why the PS Team doenst support anybody!

I'm 99% sure this isn't a Prestashop problem, and Google is just very slow to index images.

 

References:

http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!category-topic/webmasters/sitemaps/OuF1gpmIV34

http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!category-topic/webmasters/images--video-content/GHuCRSK8H4I

 

Google doesn't promise to index everything on the web. It may catch the others on recrawls. If there's alot of 'similar' on the web, or better, that might be another reason for them not to get indexed, on first crawls, anyway.
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@Mark Hesketh, yes the image appear. No problems with the link. In Prestashop you have two possibilites for image-engine. The link is according to the one you are using. Very slow ??? GG was very fast in deleting all my pictures from the search, now it is slow for re-index ??? Sorry, but I cannot follow this logic.

 

@indus - no, no answer to the bug report. Devs are all busy with 1.5. RC for Barcamp in NY. I'm still waiting for bug report on block layered since months.... This modul kills my server and finally provider prohibited me to activate or use it... Fresh discussion yesterday on that...

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Not for me. Sitemap and internal-linking seems to be different since PS 1.4.6.2 (this I also tried - replacing the gsitemap module by downgrading it...).

It was working well till PS 1.4.4.0. After I upgraded my shop from 1.4.4.0 to 1.4.6.2 end of January I'm having this problem...

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That is what iam saying, wont it work if we use an older version of the sitemap module? If that wont work then maybe google has made changes to how it indexes images? Iam seeing some user interface changes in webmaster tools over the last few weeks too.

 

I have installed sitemap module 1.6 from presta 1.4.4.1. I will post here after a few days to see what happens.

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It is a Presta Problem. Today I moved my pictures to non legacy picture system. Made a new XML. Now the pictures are not found at all.

 

I deinstalled gsitemap. Installed the one of prestochange-o (V 1.7.2) generated a new sitemap. Deinstalled it, installed the one of 1.4.7 (V.1.8). For both the links are not correct on the pictures.

 

Sitemap writes:

http://domain.com/2858-9904/product.jpg

 

Correct it should be, this I can access when I type it on browser.:

 

http://domain.com/9904/product.jpg

It seems that PS do not refresh the settings and is using some old things in here. Somebody knows where and how to fix ?

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This error with module indexing is not the only one. For example, developers prestashop erred in indicating how the location of images on the site, as a result, all the images of the same product, have the same name and same address online, on this they just can `t be indexed. In addition, you irreversible attention to more serious mistake. Module version 1.8. does not index many products. For example, in the search indexing settings, you can see that the internal search engine indexed Prestashop 1500 products, but the module Google Sitemap of 1100.

And this is not the only one, child programming error.

The team of developers PRESTASHOP - there is simply no system of quality control - it's my opinion.

 

Guys. I want you to explain something. I have a lot of time using Prestashop. I find a lot of mistakes. However, these errors are often NOT corrected. Programmers often do not understand what was going on. Programmers often do not pay attention to the error. Programmers often do not fix it. Programmers often do not want to correct errors. Prestashop like OS Windows - it always comes out with bugs - and support for you to perform in accordance with any corrections for an additional charge.

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As you can see on post #38 already done. The pictures refer to a wrong place. They cannot be indexed...

So also this module didn't solved my problem. :wacko:

 

It is a Presta Problem. Today I moved my pictures to non legacy picture system. Made a new XML. Now the pictures are not found at all.

 

I deinstalled gsitemap. Installed the one of prestochange-o (V 1.7.2) generated a new sitemap. Deinstalled it, installed the one of 1.4.7 (V.1.8). For both the links are not correct on the pictures.

 

Sitemap writes:

http://domain.com/2858-9904/product.jpg

 

Correct it should be, this I can access when I type it on browser.:

 

http://domain.com/9904/product.jpg

It seems that PS do not refresh the settings and is using some old things in here. Somebody knows where and how to fix ?

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Hello all,

I have the same problem, i keep reading all the forum in hope that someone fixed it, but nothing.

My opinion but i'm not a pro, the path to the image is not correct.

 

first of all it's without watermark, and it's also a good backdoor to steal pictures.

Can some of the experienced ones help a little on this matter pretty please...

Thank You

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I made a test on it. I downgraded my shop to the last version it was working well 1.4.5.1. The only thing what I was not able to undo is the fact that in the meantime I moved my pictures to non-legacy.

 

Also with the downgrade of the version Google is not indexing my pictures anymore. So there are two possibilities remaining on this:

 

1) The non-legacy picture system prevents Google from indexing the pictures.

2) The service of image index of Google is out of service.

 

I also noticed that the speed measure tool stopped the service mid of March. Google is not showing anymore the speed-statistic for me.

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Cd2500 You test new prestashop version¿ 1.4.8.2

 

I read changelog and I think that solved the image.They have change in google sitemap module.

 

http://www.prestasho...angelog/1.4.8.2

 

Sorry for bad english.

 

Great news!

So I guess downloading the latest Prestashop version and replacing the gsitemap module folder on my server with the new one would resolve the issue??

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I don't know. I haven't tested it. I will try when I have some time free. I've just downgraded my version 1.4.6.2 to 1.4.5.1. because there is a big speed problem on all versions 1.4.6.2 onwards. Live I will not upgrade anymore before I haven't meticulously tested the new versions. 2 big faux-pax are very critical for SEO on a good positioned shop. So there no way with automatic upgrades anymore for me.

 

EDIT: Unfortunately the download-link on PS site is broken.... :-((

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I wonder why this new version is not appearing in the back office. It still shows 1.4.7.3, Iam looking forward to this version since i have not been able to auto upgrade due to some db error during the process.

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submitting your sitemap and not seeing images indexed? images are normally indexed by bots. Google included.

 

to see if you images are indexed: in google search site:example.com then select images...

 

Let me rephrase this. Google in particular WILL NOT index images via sitemap submission. We learned this after researching results from our MultiShop single sitemap.

 

Did anyone try doing as I suggest? to see if you images are indexed: in google search site:example.com then select images...

 

You can however make your images relevant by naming them with short descriptive information and more importantly using alt text.

 

I vote this thread is solved. :)

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Hi,

 

I've submitted image sitemaps that I created manually and also using thrid party software and google webmaster tools indexed all of my images in the submitted sitemaps. So the google webmaster tool will show index images if the sitemap is correct.

 

Yes you can use site:example.com but this does not resolve the issues with the sitemap module and why it is not being picked up by the webmaster tools while normally generated sitemaps are.

 

I say that this is not solved.

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@ Z-Grim, for me I cannot confirm this. I'm also having problems now with other software not touched and GG is not indexing the new pictures.

 

That's why I also tried a downgrade to 1.4.5.1, because on this version it was working well... Also the speed-measure stopped from End of February till last week on the Google webmaster tools. Now it is showing a wrong speed. I think it is an issue from Google. They are again changing something. I see this on the heavy traffic Google is producing the last weeks on my projects...

 

I think the are adapting their bots for rich-snippets or something related to this.

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Hi,

 

I've submitted image sitemaps that I created manually and also using thrid party software and google webmaster tools indexed all of my images in the submitted sitemaps. So the google webmaster tool will show index images if the sitemap is correct.

 

Yes you can use site:example.com but this does not resolve the issues with the sitemap module and why it is not being picked up by the webmaster tools while normally generated sitemaps are.

 

I say that this is not solved.

 

You should post how you did this, I'd be interested in knowing..my research was outside of PrestaShop, because there wasn't any concrete solution like you have said you resolved.

 

lots of information out there and I wished I book marked them all...but my conclusion was that they may or may not index submitted images, but most certainly they won't.

 

If you can provide us with what xml you used to accomplish this, I'll upgrade the sitemap code...for free. Otherwise I just assume how this all works for us common folk.

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I think the problem of non-indexing is due to geotargeting Module. Does somebody know the IP's from Google's image crawler ? After downgrading to my latest working version, google is not indexing too the pictures anymore. I'm sure that the crawlers are blocked by goetargeting, because they are not on whitelist.

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Nobody here anymore ? I had Google UK on my site verifiying the problem. This is the answer. sitemap generator is writing worng picture links:

 

I shall give one example, you have in the sitemap a URL of a parent HTML page

/futternaph-trinkbrunnen/258-langohrnaph-edelstahl.html

and one of the image URLs in the sitemap listed for that HTML page is

/9904/langohrnaph-edelstahl.jpg

but in the parent HTML page there is no <img> element for that exact image URL, there are a few images with /9904-medium/ or /9904-large/ or /9904-thickbox/

The image indexed by Google Images is with the URL /9904-thickbox/ that does correspond to an <img> element in the HTML page.

You need to have in the image sitemap URLs of images that are referenced by <img> elements in the parent HTML page.

 

Can somebody please help me to fix the code ? It's an issue of the gsitemap module in the last version of Tomer... Also the original PS is not working because of DC on the pictures...

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It is not working as well: The pictures have a double http:

 

 <image:loc>http://my domainthttp://my domain/12387-large/puppy-kong.jpg</image:loc>

 

I'm getting crazy with this. no one module is working.... Somebody here to fix the code for tomer's latest one or at least the one I named in Post #65 ???

 

Please I need really urgent help on this. The problem remains since February....

 

I dont't understand why it is not possible to have a simply sitemap module working...

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Cd2500 You test new prestashop version¿ 1.4.8.2

 

I read changelog and I think that solved the image.They have change in google sitemap module.

 

http://www.prestasho...angelog/1.4.8.2

 

Sorry for bad english.

 

No not fixed... Same problem with non legacy picture system. At this stage all my pictures disappeared. Only the one which are linked also to my blog are still available. From 5.000 about 21 !!!

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To fix this edit File: ./modules/gsitemap/gsitemap.php in side function _addSitemapNodeImage()

 

 

update the code from:

$image->addChild('loc', $link->getImageLink($product['link_rewrite'], (int)$product['id_product'].'-'.(int)$img['id_image']), 'http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1');

 

 

TO

$image->addChild('loc', $link->getImageLink($product['link_rewrite'], (int)$product['id_product'].'-'.(int)$img['id_image'], 'large'), 'http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1');

 

 

I added this: , 'large'

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@HA!*!*Y,

 

thnxs for the hack, but at this stage I'm confused. Which. Module should I fix now ? I've tested enumerous one to put this into working.

 

You mean the original ?

 

My line is quite different as yours:

 

$image->addChild('loc', htmlspecialchars($link->getImageLink($product['link_rewrite'], (int)$product['id_product'].'-'.(int)$product['id_image'])), 'http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1');										  

 

I have there htmlspecialchars.. which are necessary to have them working with default PS languages (FR, ES and at least DE)

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I've now added the "large" to that line despite the difference between your code and mine. Generated a new sitemap, but the link for picture in it remains the same and also no difference on image:loc.

 

From my feeling, there is something wrong with non-legacy picture system (new PS System) and the rewrite rules. See also HERE

 

The bot is rewriting the links to a Link with captcha... I don't have any captcha activated..

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Hello,

 

I have the same problem, and i modify manualy my sitemap.xml in the lines images (10 lines) for http://www.mysite.com/img/p/1245/1253-256.jpg for the problem of htaccess and 10 other pages with append "large" 3 day later, i hav 5 images indexed.

When i see the information images in FF, my images are resized (original size 800x600) to 640x450 (large).

I have make a sitemap test to vérifie this, and make the modif on gsitemap.php.

 

Best regards

Patrick

PS : excuse my scolary english.

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To fix this edit File: ./modules/gsitemap/gsitemap.php in side function _addSitemapNodeImage()

 

 

update the code from:

$image->addChild('loc', $link->getImageLink($product['link_rewrite'], (int)$product['id_product'].'-'.(int)$img['id_image']), 'http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1');

 

 

TO

$image->addChild('loc', $link->getImageLink($product['link_rewrite'], (int)$product['id_product'].'-'.(int)$img['id_image'], 'large'), 'http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1');

 

 

I added this: , 'large'

 

Helped nothing. Google is not indexing the pictures. I pinged all major SERP's several times after the change. No indexing of picutes... Google is always crawling my page 2 to 5 minutes after each ping, so nothing wrong in here, only on picture crawling. I'm sure the problem is based on .htaccess rewrite-rules...

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@ CD2500: according to Google Webmaster Tools none of my images has been indexed, not one, yet if I google for some of my products, the images do show up in image results. So Google did find and index them, but the Webmaster Tools page says otherwise. So I think their tools is slightly broken. Have you tried searching for your own images on Google, did none show up?

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Hi, this I noticed these days too.... According to webmaster-tools no one indexed, but all new products I was able to find the pictures indexed. So it seems that the Google Tool stopped to work or the change of the code with "large" was the solution ? I cannot say.

 

Sometimes Google is not really reliable with his tools and indexing-bots :-(( and making webmasters crazy with this changes...

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@ cd2500: yeah, I know, it drove me crazy too! I spent countless hours on this issue before figuring that the images ARE being indexed even if Webmaster Tool says the contrary. It's just like the G+1 reporting sometimes resetting to zero +1's, or G+ creating links that Google reports as broken when they're not...

 

But as long as everything is fine in the end, that's all that matters! Ente gut, alles gut! ;-)

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Hey cd2500, which version of the Google sitemap module are you using? I noticed my code looks different from the above in the post,

 

I am using Google sitemap v1.9 by PrestaShop

 

And the code looks like this

 

$image->addChild('loc', htmlspecialchars($link->getImageLink($product['link_rewrite'], (int)$product['id_product'].'-'.(int)$product['id_image'])), 'http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1');

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Same, just write:

 

$image->addChild('loc', htmlspecialchars($link->getImageLink($product['link_rewrite'], (int)$product['id_product'].'-'.(int)$product['id_image'], 'large')), 'http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1');

 

Add ,'large' before the two ).

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