: Does including images in a sitemap.xml as unique pages have any negative affect on SEO? So I know that the correct way of identifying pages in a sitemap is like this: <url> <loc>http://www.example.com/<

@Gloria169

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So I know that the correct way of identifying pages in a sitemap is like this:

<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
</url>


If I want to include images in the sitemap, I know that I need to include the image extension and I could then include images like this:

<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>
</image:image>
</url>


My question is, what if I'm using a software that generates the sitemap without an image extension and instead adds images like this:

<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/image.jpg</loc>
</url>


I know that Google is ignoring those images (at least it is ignoring them in webmaster) but could this have any negative affect on the functionality of the sitemap.xml file? I know that Google will ignore all canonical tags of a website if there are too many that point to deceptive or error pages — does this same concept apply to sitemaps that have URLs that are not pointing to indexable webpages? Is any documentation on something like this?

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