Add Image information to your Google XML Sitemap to get more Traffic

Google index billions of images and see hundreds of millions of image-related queries each day. Users also get some traffic to their site because of these images via Google Image Search. You can take advantage of this traffic most effectively for your website by updating your Sitemap file with information of the images from your site.

Adding your site images to your XML Sitemaps is easy. You don’t need to create a new Sitemap for this, you can just add information on images to the Sitemap you already use. For each URL you list in your Sitemap, you can insert additional information about important images that exist on that page.

This will let the Google know where all the images are located for the Webpages and it increase chance for your site or blog to index more images in Google database. You can list up to 1,000 images for each page.

For Example:-

shows a Sitemap entry for the URL http://example.com/sample.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>http://example.com/sample.html</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>
</image:image>
</url>
</urlset>

here <loc> is a URL of the web page and <image:loc> is a the URL of image.

This helps Google to discover images which are not reached via crawling JavaScript and also enables you to identify the most important images on page and doing this can boost your Website traffic.