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Image sitemapsImage sitemaps are a way of telling Google about other images on your site, especially those that we might not otherwise find (such as images your site reaches with JavaScript code). You can create a separate image sitemap or add image sitemap tags to your existing sitemap; either approach is equally fine for Google.
Image sitemaps are based on generic sitemaps so the general sitemap best practices also apply to image sitemaps. We also recommend that you follow the general best practices for publishing images.
Example image sitemapThe following example shows a regular sitemap with image sitemap extension, with two <url> elements:
https://example.com/sample1.html, which contains two imageshttps://example.com/sample2.html, which contains one image<?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>https://example.com/sample1.html</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>https://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>
</image:image>
<image:image>
<image:loc>https://example.com/photo.jpg</image:loc>
</image:image>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://example.com/sample2.html</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>https://example.com/picture.jpg</image:loc>
</image:image>
</url>
</urlset> Image sitemap reference
The image tags are defined in the Image Sitemaps namespace: http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1
To make sure Google can use your image sitemap, you must use the following required tags:
Required tags<image:image> Encloses all information about a single image. Each <url> tag can contain up to 1,000 <image:image> tags. <image:loc>
The URL of the image.
In some cases, the image URL may not be on the same domain as your main site. This is fine, as long as you verify both domains in Search Console. If, for example, you use a content delivery network such as Google Sites to host your images, make sure that the hosting site is verified in Search Console. In addition, make sure that your robots.txt file doesn't disallow the crawling of any content you want indexed.
Deprecated tags and attributesWe removed the following tags and attributes from our documentation: <image:caption>, <image:geo_location>, <image:title>, <image:license>. See the deprecation announcement for more information.
Want to learn more? Check out the following resources:
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Last updated 2025-03-06 UTC.
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