[Google's] Best Pratices for Your Sitemap
Posted by jonathan at 10:10am EST on 11/23/2008
I was browsing through Google’s sitemap.xml file [4mb], which by the way is quite interesting to ponder at if you’re ever bored, and something caught my eye. Google has listed images in their sitemap file. Why you might ask? For image search traffic, just like any other site.
Let’s take a look at what Google is doing.
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What I really found most interesting is how much of a priority they are giving images in general. These images are not changing, not even on a yearly basis — the images probably will never change, ever.
So why shouldn’t they get a lot lower of a priority to give other files/pages that actually do change, a more frequent exposure priority.
Side note, it’s also interesting that Google’s sitemap.xml is nearly 4mb in size. 4091382 Bytes = 3995 KB
Update (12:25pm EST): According to John Mu, images are ignored in the sitemap file.
