Do I Need an Image Sitemap?

[Hary_Singh]

Can anyone tell what is the benefit of Image Sitemap?
Or Is it necessary to create a image sitemap?

I am running a ecommerce website and there is almost lakhs of live images in website. So, is it good to create image sitemap or leave it?

Someone help me on this topic

[SEO Learner 04]

I think you don't need it..as g spiders crawl them in many ways..but if you have any images that you don't want the g crawlers to get crawled, just use robot file..

[Hary_Singh]

Sorry for inconvenience. I am not satisfy with that answer.
I want to crawl and index my all images in my website. So, can i need a image sitemap?

If anyone have any idea then please help me :)

[not2easy]

Google offers information on what to submit in sitemaps and how they should be created: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/sitemaps/build-sitemap

If your interest is for mobile visitors, they offer information here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/mobile/mobile-sites-mobile-first-indexing

If the images you hope to index are product images found on multiple sites, I would not trouble creating a separate sitemap for such images. If the images are unique and proprietary, then it could be beneficial.

[tangor]

OTOH, websites (old and new) have operated just fine with no sitemaps at all.

Just something to think about.

[lucy24]

Do I Need an Image Sitemap?

No.

[jacelynsia]

Yes, an image sitemap is beneficial for improving the visibility of your images in search engine results, helping search engines discover and index them more effectively, enhancing your website's overall SEO performance.