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Vanessaji

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Since 2 years Google is not giving preference to index images. They are indexed, but very, very, slowly. You must wait. A way for to speed up the process, is to make a separate image sitemap. I never tried it, so have no experience on it.

 

Official tutorials:

 

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/178636?hl=en

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.at/2010/04/adding-images-to-your-sitemaps.html - this is the most common way and is natively integrated on Prestashop's sitemap.

 

A sitemap you already added to your Google webmaster account ?

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Prestashop modules: Google Sitemap :)  

Nice, but the question is for image index.... And this is as I told since 2 years a problem with Google. He is not indexing the images as by the same speed as the other (product) links.

 

Google has several bots working. Image bot is not the same as other content bot. The only way to speed up the index of images could be to split the sitemap (not possible with Prestashop Google sitemap module) and make an own image sitemap. Prestashop actually has only one sitemap per language and all links together, without difference of the type of the URL. ;)

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Thanks all very much! We have no google image sitemap, and it seems that xml sitemap does not work as we expect too - the last datemod seems no change, which is what i'm confused about. I want to create a new sitemap with images sitemap & video sitemap, but no entrance to a functional tool, which is able to grab all site pages, all mobile pages and update automatically.

 

Also, is recently the google pdating or grading sites? Is there any hazard to change the sitemap completely?

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Thanks all very much! We have no google image sitemap, and it seems that xml sitemap does not work as we expect too - the last datemod seems no change, which is what i'm confused about. I want to create a new sitemap with images sitemap & video sitemap, but no entrance to a functional tool, which is able to grab all site pages, all mobile pages and update automatically.

 

Also, is recently the google pdating or grading sites? Is there any hazard to change the sitemap completely?

For one, you will found on the net several tools for to grab your site. Or ata addons: http://addons.prestashop.com/de/seo-prestashop-module/6837-google-image-sitemap.html.

 

For videos I can say, it is better to open a YouTube account and add your vidoes there, by linking them to your page. You Tube is also a Google product, so it is better indexed from there.

 

For two, no, unless you change also the sitemap on your google webmaster account.

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Hi, guys. I found my site images are slow/not be indexed by google. What is the possible Root Cause?

I set the alt for every product page, and all images are followed by google. but when i google my brand in google images, just a little pictures are shown!

 

Help. Site: http://www.edressit.com

Are you using alt+title in your image? Like this: <img src="your image here" alt="your image title here" height="XX" width="XX">

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Are you using alt+title in your image? Like this: <img src="your image here" alt="your image title here" height="XX" width="XX">

 

Yes, i set, the content of alt & title calls product name.  e.g. <img src="http://imgs.edressit.com/420x633/201504/c8cc0da8-2bbb-47ee-a0ec-9b17063a63a8.jpg" title="eDressit Gorgeous Sleeveless Beaded Bodice Pink Prom Dress (C36153001)" alt="eDressit Gorgeous Sleeveless Beaded Bodice Pink Prom Dress (C36153001)"></img>

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Rather then using a module for images in sitemap, you can include all your images in sitemap manually following Google Guidelines as given here; https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/178636?hl=en

The images are included on Prestashop's native sitemap. But for index the images faster it could be a deal to have them splitted in an own sitemap, like Wordpress for ex. is having with extra tools. You can have a rss sitemap, a video sitemap, a image sitemap and ad least a sitemap for your content pages (only content, without the others). Unfortunately Prestashop has not the option to generate splitted sitemaps per category. A module would be nice managing this, but not yet available. Only for extra images as I told.

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I'm sure that for windows servers there are also tools available for to capture the url's for an image sitemap. Did you researched on the net by using keywords "sitemap tool image windows server" ?

I googled "image sitemap tools". Most tools will turn to the pay module, then stucked.

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Take a look into IIS Manager (I suppose you are using IIS ?) I don't remember, but maybe you have a free toll on board for sitemap creation. I was on Windows Server only for one year and than gave up. Windows are optimized for windows software. Others run there not really well.

 

Perhaps this ?

 

http://blogs.iis.net/carlosag/using-the-seo-toolkit-to-generate-a-sitemap-of-a-remote-web-site

http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/search-engine-optimization-toolkit

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