wordpress submitting random images to google
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I just recently started transferring an old website to wordpress, transferred and existing domain so domain is already indexed. I have been reading through wordpress forums. It says that wordpress automatically submits new pages to google for submission/indexing. Which it seems to be doing just great. It also created an xml sitemap correctly here:
http://spaghettisauceandmeatballs.com/sitemap.xmlHowever, in the xml sitemap and from what I am seeing in webmaster tools, wordpress is automatically submitting random images to google. One image per page it seems where on average I have several per page.
What’s up with that? Can I control which photos get submittd to google? Can I make sure they all get submittted somehow?
Thanks, Tony
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Hi Tony,
You probably saw this article:
I couldn’t find anything else. It doesn’t look like it’s possible to edit the xml. :(
You may want to submit that as an idea: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas
Kind regards,
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I realize new websites can take a while to get fully indexed. Bit this is an existing domain I am transferring over so everything is a lot faster. All pages have already been indexed no problem, actually only took a couple fo days. My questions was about the image indexing and what I am seeing in the xml sitemap. In the sitemap there seems to be only one random image file picked up associated with each page while each page has several images. Not sure why the xml sitemap is not picking up all images and why it selected the random single image it did. Does not make sense really. Just find it rather interesting and weird. You can see the sitemap here: http://spaghettisauceandmeatballs.com/sitemap.xml. Just a random image every now and then in the sitemap. I don’t get the automation and why just the single image.
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However the images will get a new URL with domain mapping – images are mapped to the base blog URL, not the custom domain name – so the search engines will see a different URL
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Yes, different url for sure but indexing happens a lot faster on domains that are already established in the google index. What happens is because the domain is already indexed it gets crawled at a faster rate. Any new pages get automatically picked up because the google bots spider through all the links on the front page and picks up any new links automatically. In my case I am working with a domain that has been in the google index since 1998.
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I have flagged this for staff attention – maybe they have more insight
From what I have been told by others with way more experience than I – is that when anything major like moving a site (yes the custom domain name has been around for a while) – and with the different image URL’s after the move – that search engines take a while to adjust – but maybe the staff have some more info or experience they can share
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Hi Tony,
At this time only the Featured Image will be pulled into the sitemap. In the event that you don’t have a featured image set the first image in the post/page will be used.
This does not mean that Google (and other search engines) will not index your other images however. As we are providing a URL location and not blocking images from being indexed in your robots.txt search engines will be able to index all images on your site regardless of if it’s specified in your sitemap.xml.
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