{"id":974,"date":"2020-07-25T11:28:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/?p=974"},"modified":"2020-07-25T11:28:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T11:28:41","slug":"google-updated-its-image-sitemaps-page-for-webmasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/google-updated-its-image-sitemaps-page-for-webmasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Updated Its Image Sitemaps Page For Webmasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Google<\/strong> recently updated its <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/178636?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image sitemaps page<\/a> for <strong>webmasters<\/strong>. There is a little change in it, but an important one. You can see both the old new &amp; new content in the below image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-Sitemap-Page-Content-Comparison.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-Sitemap-Page-Content-Comparison.png\" alt=\"Image Sitemap Page Content Comparison\" width=\"828\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-Sitemap-Page-Content-Comparison.png 828w, https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-Sitemap-Page-Content-Comparison-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-Sitemap-Page-Content-Comparison-768x616.png 768w, https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-Sitemap-Page-Content-Comparison-640x513.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has suggested webmasters to add <strong>image metadata<\/strong> like <em>contact information<\/em> &amp; <em>licensing information<\/em> etc. to the sitemap which will show to users in its <strong>image search results<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look on how Google shows image metadata in its image search results on mobile devices. Check Google support page for <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/9150868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image rights metadata<\/a>. It\u2019s also important that removing image metadata is helpful in reducing the size of the image file which can load the page faster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-Metadata-In-Google-Image-Search-Results.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-Metadata-In-Google-Image-Search-Results.png\" alt=\"Image Metadata In Google Image Search Results\" width=\"364\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-Metadata-In-Google-Image-Search-Results.png 364w, https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-Metadata-In-Google-Image-Search-Results-197x300.png 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, the question is whether you should remove the meta data or not? Now, Google recommends adding critical metadata to be safe from legal point of view. But if it is okay, you can remove it altogether to make your page faster.<\/p>\n<p>After all, from <strong>next March<\/strong>, <a href=\"\/google-extended-timeframe-for-mobile-first-indexing-to-march-2021\/\">Google is going for mobile-first indexing<\/a> for the whole web, and you know, how important is page load speed here.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the old contents of the image sitemap page <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200514185837\/https:\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/178636?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently updated its image sitemaps page for webmasters. There is a little change in it, but an important one. You can see both the old new &amp; new content in the below image. 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