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If you want to have the search indexes of all the major search engines rank the images of your website, you need to create an image sitemap. In order to get the search engines to do this, the image sitemap feed is the most important step. These sitemaps are created to compel search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing to provide the results of your choice.

For instance, Image Sitemaps allow Google to understand the metadata regarding the image content on your particular website. The creation of an image sitemap involves a Wordpress plugin or custom code for your content management system. In order to start, you just install the plugin or the custom code which creates a file following the standard image sitemap xml format.