We have already spoken of “magical” prospects of a third party tool like Sitemap Writer Pro and about its unique advantage of adding images to previously created sitemap affirmed with bright consequences. But that’s just not it…   Program also offers a way to create Google Image Sitemap, using Standard XML Sitemap.

And here’s how you do it:

1. After downloading, installing and setting the program to work, Go to Project, navigate to Open button and click on Open File from Internet.
2. Enter the Sitemap File URL:  http://example/sitemap.xml and click Open button.
3. From the Dialogue box, choose Google Images and press OK.
4. Now, a list of URL appeared. From the Menu bar click on Images, in order to add image information to the Sitemap.
5. From the opened window you can set the Google Crawlers Quantity (max. 20).

You can also set filters (Include, Exclude) to choose the URLs from which the images will be taken.
Let’s bring an example on WordPress. In case if you want to include only posts which contain images, you must set Include filter on the following: [0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/.*?\.html and make sure to select Use as RegEx option, Preview Filtered URLs and you are ready to Start the crawling process.

6. Done, all nice and neat. Now you can see the list of Google Image sitemap URLs.

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