: How to increase the number of indexed images from submitted image sitemap? I had added images in my sitemap a week ago, but the number of images indexed in the Google Webmaster Tools has not
I had added images in my sitemap a week ago, but the number of images indexed in the Google Webmaster Tools has not displayed any tendency to increase. The number of images submitted is about 200,000 but the number of images indexed keeps floating around 10,000.
I hosted my images on AWS S3, and I used different URL .s3.amazonaws.com instead of my domain, but I provide a robots.txt file in the root directory of the bucket (per this instruction). In the sitemap XML the images are grouped in each content page <loc>, but the images filenames doesn't give any relevant information about the content of the page. They are just a bunch of random numbers.
Is there any way I can do to increase the number of indexed images in the Google Webmaster Tools?
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I would suggest you only to wait (about 1 month). It depends on you site's information updating frequency.
I had had the similar situation, but after a months all the images appeared in Google Image Search Results.
If the number of links are decreasing over time, Google could be viewing some URL's as duplicate content - Google has image recognition capabilities which allows it to compare images, and will not index duplicates that it finds.
See the following for more on that: Beware: Google Getting Even Better at Identifying Duplicate Images And refer to the Image publishing guidelines from Google
, if you haven't already.
Be sure to check if there are any crawl errors being displayed in Google Webmaster tools. Also note that there is a limit to the number of URL's in a single sitemap: 50K per sitemap file. See "How big can my Sitemap be?" here: Sitemaps.org: FAQ's
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