Should I include images in Wordpress CMS in my sitemap?

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Nostromo2017-08-03 13:58:17

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Nostromo, 2017-08-03 13:58:17

Good afternoon !
The situation in Google Search Console for 1 month is depressing, Google does not want to index "all 100% original photos" photographed by me.
The plugin costs Yoast, I included images for the index in the sitemap.
Question: Now, in addition to prescribing the Title, the description of ALT + the focus keyword, also indicate the canonical URL to the promoted page so that there are no duplicates? Right ?

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Maxim Timofeev, 2017-08-03
@webinar

1 month for indexing 100% of the photos on the site is not enough. I wouldn't include it in the sitemap. Are they in the page code?

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Vladimir Kai, 2017-08-03
@gold_dezmor

No, we don't.
The point is to duplicate what the search engines "eat" anyway, analyzing the code of your pages

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Alexandra Metiza, 2017-08-04
@Metiza

1. If you have a special focus on images, if I were you, I would make two maps - a standard one and a map for images, and then indicate them in robots.txt. Like this, for example:

Sitemap: https://your_site.com/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://your_site.com/image_sitemap.xml.gz

2. You do not need to specify the canonical in images. Google just doesn't recognize them. About a year ago, this was even officially announced :

We don't use rel="canonical" for images. If you add an attribute to the header, we won't recognize it.