Google does not index image sitemap

[Storesco]

Hi,

we put an image sitemap in the searchconsole/webmastertools

http://www.sillasdepaseo.es/sillasdepaseo/sitemap-images.xml

it contains only the indexed products and all images on the pages. We also claimed the CDN in the searchconsole

http://media.sillasdepaseo.es/

It has been 2 weeks now, Google indexes the pages, but not the images. What can we do?

Thanks in advance.

Dieter Lang

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Dieter,

What does Google Search Console show you in terms of images crawled and images indexed? Usually the images sitemap's indexation rate is way lower then the one for web pages so that would make sense. But no indexation at all would mean there's probably a problem outside of your sitemap.

[Mustansar]

The easiest way to test this is to manually create a sitemap with 100 or so 'clean' image URLs. Just pull the messy ones into excel and use the formula below to create a clean version (Use A1 for messy, B1 for formula).

=CONCATENATE("image:imageimage:lochttp://res.cloudinary.com/greenplantswap/image/upload/",RIGHT</image:loc></image:image>(A1,LEN(A1)-(FIND("*",(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"/","*",(IF(LEN(TRIM(A1))=0,0,LEN(TRIM(A1))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"/",""))))))))),"")

[Storesco]

thanks guys

martijn, here ist the webmastertool answer, looks list a problem

Sitemap	Type	Processed	Issues	Items	Submitted	Indexed
---	---	---	---	---	---	---
	1		/sillasdepaseo/sitemap-images.xml	Sitemap	Jun 13, 2016	-	Web	956	952
Images	3,345	-
	2		/sillasdepaseo/sitemap.xml	Sitemap	Jun 13, 2016	-	Web	1,127	1,098

ikkle, what do mean by test it, if i create such a clean sitemap, what should I then do with it or see?

Thanks in advance.

Dieter

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Dieter,

Hmm interesting, and you don't have any issues in the sitemaps it seems? Could you also shed some more light on when you've added the sitemap to Google Search Console?

What I would at least recommend is adding your sitemap to the robots.txt file.

[Storesco]

i added it to the robots.txt, thanks for the tip, it was about 2 weeks ago