No images in Google index

[Adriaan.Multiply]

No images are indexed on this site (client of ours): http://www.rubbermagazijn.nl/. We've tried everything (descriptive alt texts, image sitemaps, fetch&render, check robots) but a site:www.rubbermagazijn.nl shows 0 image results and the sitemap report in Search Console shows 0 images indexed.

We're not sure how to proceed from here. Is there anyone with an idea what the problem could be?

[slatronica]

Did you try explicitly adding the images into your sitemap?

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

[brettmandoes]

I just checked your xml sitemap and (as Steve mentioned) you don't have any images in your sitemap (or videos). I strongly recommend using a dynamic xml sitemap as well, if you're not already. Glancing through your site you should have a much larger sitemap than what's displayed.

Also your robots.txt file looks a little funny. Normally I see a line under "User-Agent: *" that says "Disallow:". I'm not sure it's completely necessary, but I don't play around with that file. Too many clients have done weird things by varying from the standard. Here's THE resource on robots.txt:

http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

[Adriaan.Multiply]

Thank you, Steve and Brett.

We do have an image sitemap, which is referenced in the original sitemap: http://www.rubbermagazijn.nl/sitemap/image.xml. As far as I know, this sitemap is dynamically/automatically updated as pages come and go.

The "disallow:" comment is interesting. I will pass this through, but most pages are correctly indexed, just not images.

[Adriaan.Multiply]

Also see attached screenshot, it shows how we added image sitemap to search console, it says 6.721 sent but 0 indexed, and no errors found.

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[Davinia22]

Could there be something of use on this page -  https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_meta_tag (specifically the heading "Practical implementation of X-Robots-Tag with Apache" which talks about blocking images via the http header).

[Adriaan.Multiply]

Thanks for the response Davinia. We don't use the mentions methods to block crawlers.