Add Image/Video Sitemaps

[derekperkins]

I get a lot of traffic through my images, so it would be nice to have some media sitemap options.

[bep]

I have lots of images myself - do you have any ideas about how to attack this problem in a static Hugo context?

[derekperkins]

There's a discussion at http://discuss.gohugo.io/t/hugo-seo-social-partials/353 that is trying to create a Hugo standard for registering images and videos in the front matter. Once that is in place, it's fairly trivial to generate image / video sitemaps based on that content.

[spf13]

I don't want it dependent on front matter. One principle I've based hugo on is that if you can determine something based on the file system structure than you shouldn't need to add it to the front matter (see how section is derived, type from section, title from file name, etc). These also don't force the file system do put unnecessary information in it (ala date in the file name). Front matter can be used to support this, but shouldn't be required.

[derekperkins]

@spf13 I'd love for it not to be dependent either, though it may be nice to provide that as a possible configuration. If that's the goal, that leaves us with two options that I can think of, and maybe a combination of all the options:

• Once a fix for Non-MD files in the content directory (like jpg's and png's) end up as html's #147 is implemented, we can match data based on file structure
• We can parse the content for images

What about parsing through both of those, appending them to the front matter specified images if there are any, then deduping the list?

[Jos512]

Any update on including images in the sitemap? This is especially important for people who want to use a CDN. Since that can give duplicate content (CDN images vs. origin if both are linked to), a sitemap is a tool to communicate to Google what the preferred URL for the content is.

See image sitemaps and Google webmaster blog for more.

[christophermancini]

I see that there is a Media.go object and the Image and Video structs are referenced there, but there is not docs on what, if anything they provide in terms of images and sitemaps.

[bep]

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[bep]

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[thomasjsn]

This seems to be pretty easy now with page resources, I added this just before </url> in layouts/_default/sitemap.xml

  {{ range $i := .Resources.ByType "image" }}
  <image:image>
    <image:loc>{{ $i.Permalink }}</image:loc>
  </image:image>
  {{ end }}

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