Is it worth putting images in your sitemap?
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I am always trying to optimize our website and have came across adding images to the sitemap. Has anyone done this? Did it make a big difference?
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Hi,
If you have a lot of images and you need to speed up the indexing process then yes, it's worth adding an image xml sitemap.
It also helps with the " image index managmenet" of those files.
More on: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/178636?hl=en
Beside this though - there is no advantage - I mean you won't get any rankings boosts or anything like that.
Cheers.
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