Is it worth putting images in your sitemap?

[EcommerceSite]

I am always trying to optimize our website and have came across adding images to the sitemap. Has anyone done this? Did it make a big difference?

[eyepaq]

Hi,

If you have a lot of images and you need to speed up the indexing process then yes, it's worth adding an image xml sitemap.

It also helps with the " image index managmenet" of those files.

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

Beside this though - there is no advantage - I mean you won't get any rankings boosts or anything like that.

Cheers.