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digitalg33k / ProReferee

ProReferee is a global e-commerce destination for semi-professional soccer referees to improve their expertise through the supply of high-quality merchandise, interactive training modules, and connections throughout the referee community.
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Product Images on ProReferee Domain #10

Open digitalg33k opened 6 years ago

digitalg33k commented 6 years ago

Your product images will never be indexed with google image search if they are hosted on an external domain. You need to host your images on your site.

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djpinna commented 6 years ago

This is taken from AF's github and is relevant to proref: If you do Google search for "AncientFaces" and click "Images" you will see that none of our photos are indexed with Google. All of the indexed photo are from our tumblr and pinterest profiles. On March 22nd 2016 we switched image hosting to s3.

According to Google Webmaster Support the image:loc tag in sitemaps needs to be verified in Google Search Console for our photos to be indexable in Google Search.

< 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 both domains are verified 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.txtfile doesn’t disallow the crawling of any content you want indexed.

We use s3 for image hosting and as such our sitemap shows:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/af-social/00100-secondary.jpg Of course, s3.amazonaws.com is not verified in our Search Console. Here are two quick interesting article son getting Google to index images using a CDN and How to fix Image SEO Issue . See Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18765934/how-appoint-a-subdomain-for-a-s3-bucket See Stack Exchange: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/84864/getting-cdn-images-indexed-with-google It looks as though as long as we appoint a subdomain such as < bucket-name >.s3.amazonaws.com. we can then have Google index our images. Please refer to: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/VirtualHosting.html Lets update all of our image paths w/ s3 Validate in Search Console Update links across site & in sitemaps.