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Jekyll plugin to silently generate a sitemaps.org compliant sitemap for your Jekyll site
http://rubygems.org/gems/jekyll-sitemap
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Adding support for Image Sitemaps #217

Closed xRahul closed 5 years ago

xRahul commented 6 years ago

As the main plugin for Jekyll sitemaps, it should support Image Sitemaps out of the box: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/178636

pathawks commented 6 years ago

Can you explain a bit more about what you need from this plugin to support this feature and why it would be broadly useful to users?

Jekyll has no concept of an image, so I am having trouble imagining where we would get information for an image sitemap.

xRahul commented 6 years ago

The blog posts could have images associated with them. There should be a feature that creates an image sitemap associated with the pages for better image seo. I found that in Google webmasters guidelines.

pathawks commented 6 years ago

What information could we provide about an image that Google could not derive on its own? If we are just parsing the HTML of blog posts looking for <img>, isn't that exactly what Google does already? If we don't have any title, caption, or geo_location to associate with an image, what advantage is there to adding the complexity of generating a second sitemap that only contains images that a webcrawler would have already encountered naturally?

xRahul commented 6 years ago

Take a look at the article I've linked. According to that, Google can miss some images like the ones accessed via JavaScript. Image sitemaps help Google SEO them better and you can provide many properties like the caption, image license etc that you wouldn't be able to otherwise.

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