Images not appearing in Google Images SERPS

[TimIngle]

Hi there

We pushed a new version of our website live more than 6 months ago.

So far, none of the images that are in the product gallery on this page http://www.ingleandrhode.co.uk/bespoke-rings/inspiration/ are appearing in the Google Images SERPS (I tested this by searching Google Images for "site:www.ingleandrhode.co.uk").

I understand that the gallery uses Javascript, so Googlebot doesn't see the image files in the HTML, but in Webmaster Tools, if I "fetch as Google" with rendering, this suggests that Googlebot does see the gallery images.

My website developer tried adding an image sitemap about two weeks ago, which is being indexed, but so far this hasn't made any difference.

Any suggestions on what needs to be done for these gallery images to start appearing in Google Images SERPS?

Many thanks!

[DonnaDuncan]

Looks like your images are being rendered dynamically and Google therefore can't see them. This Google Developers article might help, but can't say for sure as I haven't tried it.

[TimIngle]

Donna, many thanks for your response. I'll forward the link to our web developer.

So the fact that the images are visible when I "fetch as Google" with rendering in WMT is a red herring?

[DonnaDuncan]

Don't know. It probably depends on which images you fetched and rendered. I did some image searches and wasn't able to find many images on your site, only the ones whose actual file names were visible in the HTML.