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Google Sitemap Feeds, Regular and Images, And Overlap, Or Lack Of
October 02, 2006
We hear from a Googler an important clarification that to date had been a bit murky, especially if you are creating both regular Google Sitemaps and Google Images Sitemaps (or feeds) for clients. At issue:
Can a site use both a Google Image Sitemap Feed and Google Sitemap, or does one supersede the other? And if there's no overlap between the two feeds, if there are pages in the images feed you'd also want to be in the main index, should you have those pages in both feeds? Is that ok?
The answer, Wagon Friends, is no longer blowing in the wind:
There's no overlap between the feeds and indexes here. The stuff in the image sitemaps goes only into Images, stuff in the other sitemaps goes into the main index. So no superceding, no overlap... and therefore it makes sense to use both sitemaps. No need to put pages in both feeds. As I understand it, the main sitemaps file won't really take image files into account anyway.
So, images only in Google Image Sitemaps, and not images but just pages in regular Google Sitemaps, which makes perfect logical sense, thankfully.
And to boot, the Googler it comes to us from has proven to be a Trusted Feed.
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posted by John Lustina at October 2, 2006 05:41 PM
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Comments
"google image sitemaps"?
what is it? i cant find any documentation... can you help?
peter
Posted by: peter gariepy at November 17, 2006 09:20 PM