Google doesn't index image slideshow

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Julien,

I always start with robots.txt in these cases, but that looks OK.

Is anything being blocked by JS? Something else to look at is if you are using something like Wordpress, there are plugins that can block access to these without you realising.

Looking at the URL of the image, this appears to be hosted on a 3rd party site?

-Andy

[Julien.Ferras]

The robots.txt file doesn't block the images, I check it. The website is under Easy Publish.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

How are your images being fed into the site? Are you using a CDN?

-Andy

[Julien.Ferras]

The display image is resized and indexed :

http://resize3-parismatch.ladmedia.fr/r/901,,forcex/img/var/news/storage/images/paris-match/people/television/sport-a-la-tele-les-femmes-a-l-abordage-962989/le-bateau-ne-tangue-pas-sur-france-televisions/13636303-1-fre-FR/Le-bateau-ne-tangue-pas-sur-France-Televisions.jpg"/>

and the full size image is in META but not indexed :

[evolvingSEO]

Hi There

There does not appear to be any accessibility issues. I can crawl and access the images just fine with my crawler.

My guess is that since the images are duplicate, and they also exist on other websites, Google may be avoiding indexing them since they already are indexed and they are technically not being linked to with a normal tag.

Is this causing a particular issue for the site? Or is it just a pesky technical bug?

[Julien.Ferras]

Thanks Dan !

I'm agree with you. It's problematic because since website redesign, we record a fall of images traffic by Google

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[evolvingSEO]

I see, thanks. Hmmm... did anything else change besides the re-design? Did the images URLs change, or did where they were being hosted change?

The current implementation doesn't show any issues, but I wonder if things were properly done in moving to the new design. Did you always have a slideshow format? Did the code change or just the design?

[Julien.Ferras]

Thanks Dan. Unfortunately, we have changed the images of host, on a different CDN...

Before the redesign, we used exactly this configuration, visible on this page (it's just an article, we don't have a slideshow example):
http://www.parismatch.com/Chroniques/Art-de-vivre/Lodge-Story-925785

We have perhaps a problem with the image sitemaps because we have in Google Sitemaps:

<image: loc="">http://cdn-parismatch.ladmedia.fr/var/news/storage/images/paris-match/culture/cinema/le-fils-de-saul-la-critique-763334/8067828-1-fre-FR/Le-Fils-de-Saul-la-critique.jpg</image:>

and in the HTML source:

the perhaps should be put in the same sitempas URLs as used in HTML?

Many thanks for your help !

[evolvingSEO]

Is this your current sitemap?

http://www.parismatch.com/var/exports/sitemaps/sitemap_parismatch-index.xml

What is the direct address of the image sitemap(s)?

Thanks!

[Julien.Ferras]

The images are here :

http://www.parismatch.com/var/exports/sitemaps/sitemap_images_parismatch-10.xml

[evolvingSEO]

Thanks! Hmmm did it clear Search Console without any errors? I see an error in my browser --> http://screencast.com/t/VLWhg8EyR3Dd

[Julien.Ferras]

Not really, it seem be ok

gESSIIT

[evolvingSEO]

Thanks! OK, yes I'd make your Sitemap and HTML image URLs the same.

Also, that's a LOT of images, so I'm not surprised Google is taking time to index them.

Also, there can sometimes be a delay in Search Console data. You can always be checking Google itself to see what files are indexed.

[Julien.Ferras]

Ok, what is the best method that you recommend for verify images indexation directly in Google ?

I would post a message explaining the change after change sitemaps.

Thanks for all

[evolvingSEO]

You can do a "site:" search directly in Google like this and I currently see this --> http://screencast.com/t/ZVqq5iumQ - you can probably do a site: search on the whole domain, a subfolder or a specific page etc.