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        • Julien.Ferras
          Julien.Ferras last edited by

          Hi,

          My articles are indexed and images (full size) via a meta in the body also. But, the images in the slideshow are not indexed, have you any idea? A problem with the JS

          Example : http://www.parismatch.com/People/Television/Sport-a-la-tele-les-femmes-a-l-abordage-962989

          Thank you in advance

          Julien

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          • evolvingSEO
            evolvingSEO @Julien.Ferras last edited by

            You can do a "site:" search directly in Google like this and I currently see this --> http://screencast.com/t/ZVqq5iumQ - you can probably do a site: search on the whole domain, a subfolder or a specific page etc.

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            • Julien.Ferras
              Julien.Ferras @evolvingSEO last edited by

              Ok, what is the best method that you recommend for verify images indexation directly in Google ?

              I would post a message explaining the change after change sitemaps.

              Thanks for all

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              • evolvingSEO
                evolvingSEO @Julien.Ferras last edited by

                Thanks! OK, yes I'd make your Sitemap and HTML image URLs the same.

                Also, that's a LOT of images, so I'm not surprised Google is taking time to index them.

                Also, there can sometimes be a delay in Search Console data. You can always be checking Google itself to see what files are indexed.

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                • Julien.Ferras
                  Julien.Ferras @evolvingSEO last edited by

                  Not really, it seem be ok

                  gESSIIT

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                  • evolvingSEO
                    evolvingSEO @Julien.Ferras last edited by

                    Thanks! Hmmm did it clear Search Console without any errors? I see an error in my browser --> http://screencast.com/t/VLWhg8EyR3Dd

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                    • Julien.Ferras
                      Julien.Ferras @evolvingSEO last edited by

                      The images are here :

                      http://www.parismatch.com/var/exports/sitemaps/sitemap_images_parismatch-10.xml

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                      • evolvingSEO
                        evolvingSEO @Julien.Ferras last edited by

                        Is this your current sitemap?

                        http://www.parismatch.com/var/exports/sitemaps/sitemap_parismatch-index.xml

                        What is the direct address of the image sitemap(s)?

                        Thanks!

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                        • Julien.Ferras
                          Julien.Ferras @evolvingSEO last edited by

                          Thanks Dan. Unfortunately, we have changed the images of host, on a different CDN...

                          Before the redesign, we used exactly this configuration, visible on this page (it's just an article, we don't have a slideshow example):
                          http://www.parismatch.com/Chroniques/Art-de-vivre/Lodge-Story-925785

                          We have perhaps a problem with the image sitemaps because we have in Google Sitemaps:

                          <image: loc="">http://cdn-parismatch.ladmedia.fr/var/news/storage/images/paris-match/culture/cinema/le-fils-de-saul-la-critique-763334/8067828-1-fre-FR/Le-Fils-de-Saul-la-critique.jpg</image:>

                          and in the HTML source:

                          the perhaps should be put in the same sitempas URLs as used in HTML?

                          Many thanks for your help ! 🙂

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                          • evolvingSEO
                            evolvingSEO @Julien.Ferras last edited by

                            I see, thanks. Hmmm... did anything else change besides the re-design? Did the images URLs change, or did where they were being hosted change?

                            The current implementation doesn't show any issues, but I wonder if things were properly done in moving to the new design. Did you always have a slideshow format? Did the code change or just the design?

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                            • Julien.Ferras
                              Julien.Ferras @evolvingSEO last edited by

                              Thanks Dan !

                              I'm agree with you. It's problematic because since website redesign, we record a fall of images traffic by Google 😞

                              9dhhHrR

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                              • evolvingSEO
                                evolvingSEO last edited by

                                Hi There

                                There does not appear to be any accessibility issues. I can crawl and access the images just fine with my crawler.

                                My guess is that since the images are duplicate, and they also exist on other websites, Google may be avoiding indexing them since they already are indexed and they are technically not being linked to with a normal tag.

                                Is this causing a particular issue for the site? Or is it just a pesky technical bug?

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                                • Julien.Ferras
                                  Julien.Ferras last edited by

                                  The display image is resized and indexed :

                                  ![](<a class=)http://resize3-parismatch.ladmedia.fr/r/901,,forcex/img/var/news/storage/images/paris-match/people/television/sport-a-la-tele-les-femmes-a-l-abordage-962989/le-bateau-ne-tangue-pas-sur-france-televisions/13636303-1-fre-FR/Le-bateau-ne-tangue-pas-sur-France-Televisions.jpg"/>

                                  and the full size image is in META but not indexed :

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                                  • Andy.Drinkwater
                                    Andy.Drinkwater @Julien.Ferras last edited by

                                    How are your images being fed into the site? Are you using a CDN?

                                    -Andy

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                                    • Julien.Ferras
                                      Julien.Ferras last edited by

                                      The robots.txt file doesn't block the images, I check it. The website is under Easy Publish.

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                                      • Andy.Drinkwater
                                        Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

                                        Hi Julien,

                                        I always start with robots.txt in these cases, but that looks OK.

                                        Is anything being blocked by JS? Something else to look at is if you are using something like Wordpress, there are plugins that can block access to these without you realising.

                                        Looking at the URL of the image, this appears to be hosted on a 3rd party site?

                                        -Andy

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