I have submitted sitemap of my site to Google webmaster tools, but for now I have only html pages included. Will it help if I include also image URLs in the sitemap? Doeas it affect inclusion of my images to Google Image Search somehow?
Never did image inclusion in any of my sitemaps... never needed to. You shouldn't need to either, the spiders will work their magic just fine.
I've also never included any images in my sitemaps. But who knows - maybe for some purposes it could be useful?
I was just wandering if it will help to get my images included in google image search. Anyone tried this?
you only add in your sitemap what www.google.com will index. right now,www.google.com will index just swf images. check "Include my site in Google Image Labeler" in webmasters tools.
nice info but i do think priority on pages is top rather then images never done this but willing to do, will update if found google image crawls faster
Nope.. you are only allowed to submit url's in sitemap. If there are any images in those url's, the google bot automatically crawl them... Yea..but wait, usually, it takes up to 3 months for the images to come in google image search.