Images not getting indexed in Google
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I think you're doing it right. What makes you think your images aren't indexed?
I looked for this image in Google Reverse Image Search and it found it (and, no other copies, which is good):
http://www.printe-z.com/image/cache/data/237-222x280.jpg
I also find it if I do a regular image search for "Estimate Pads 237" which of course is part of your caption.
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Hi Michael,
Thanks for your response.
I am seeing in webmaster tools that our images are not being indexed.
Attached see copy of our webmaster tools screenshot so you can understand.
Morris
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OK, I know what you're talking about now. I've seen the same thing happen, where images DO appear to be indexed but WMT in the image sitemap file graph & counts look like it's not.
My conclusion: GWT is buggered up there :-). Really, though, I think it may just be a matter of time, certain processes that have to run, etc.
When I last saw this happen on one of my own sites, it showed nearly no images from my sitemap indexed for quite some time...a month or two, I think. Now, it shows (with no changes that I could think of to affect this on-site) 1336 out of 1471 of the images in my sitemap indexed.
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Thanks for your reply, I hope this is the case.
I have this going on for over six months.
Morris
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That's a really, really long time. I think something else is wrong.
It's not your robots.txt, I checked that.
Your sitemap file looked good to me.
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Michael,
Is there something I can do?
Morris
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Try posting in the Google Webmaster Tools forum.
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Thanks. I have posted it as per your suggestion:
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Morris, I did some Googling and found quite a number of people who were using an app or CMS called Presta (something) that had an image sitemap generator. This makes me think that a little issue in the sitemap could cause this problem.
Compare your image sitemap to mine and see if you can see anything different, missing tags, etc.: