Image Sitemap need help

[Obbserv]

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[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi Ravi

I would stick to just text as shown by the example provided by Google with no CDATA involved.

I would also link to this sitemap off of your http://www.urbandazzle.com/sitemap.xml - right now, you haven't indicated you have another sitemap; make sure Google can find it.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

[DirkC]

Ravi,

The goals of an image sitemap is to find the images that are published on your site - the images you list in the sitemap are not the ones you use on the site. Example: Image used on site: http://www.urbandazzle.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/800x800/c7ea75a76d63a5bd57bd6d87127c28c4/b/1/b17211.jpg

Image listed in sitemap: http://www.urbandazzle.com/media/catalog/product/b/1/b17211.jpg

Quoting Google:

"To give Google information about images on your site, you'll need to add image-specific tags to a sitemap. You can use a separate sitemap to list images, or you can add image information to an existing sitemap. Use the method works for you! " (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/178636?hl=en)

You have asked the same question two months ago - and the answer remains the same (http://moz.com/community/q/why-my-image-are-not-indexed-even-though-i-have-created-image-sitemap)

rgds,

Dirk

[Obbserv]

Hello Dirk,

We have updated our sitemap as per your guidelines.

Please check and let us know if further improvements are required

[DirkC]

Hi Ravi,

Looks ok now. Did you already see changes in WMT (number of url's indexed). To speed up the process you could do a "Fetch as Google" in WMT for the sitemap & submit it to the index.

rgds,

Dirk