: Creating Google sitemap.xml , is it okay for the images to be wrapped in URL tags? I'm using a tool to generate the sitemap.xml file for me, it started to crawl my website, got the pages

@Kimberly868

If the tool is inserting images into loc it is either very old or configured incorrectly or buggy :)

You should, like others have said create separate image sitemap, video sitemap etc. that features such content.

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@Annie201

That doesn't look correct for images being listed in a sitemap, I would use another sitemap generator. The example below is from Google's Webmaster Central blog post about adding images to your sitemap

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">
<url>
<loc>http://example.com/sample.html</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>
</image:image>
</url>
</urlset>


And more information can also be found here about image sitemaps support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178636

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