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Why isn't Google Base showing my crawled images?

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There are a few common reasons our system might have trouble displaying your images:
  • Your image URLs aren't working correctly

    If your image URLs don't work, an image won't be displayed for your product in our listings. Please make sure all your image URLs are working correctly.

  • A robots.txt file is blocking us from crawling your images

    If you have a robots.txt file, make sure the user-agent "googlebot" is not being blocked from the directory containing your images. To ensure the "googlebot" is not being blocked, please add the following two lines of text to the end of your robots.txt file:

    User-agent: googlebot
    Disallow:

    Learn more about the Robot Exclusion Protocol.

  • You've included spaces within your image URLs

    Please make sure that there are no spaces within your image URLs. Each space should be replaced with the characters "%20" (without quotes). Otherwise, we'll be unable to crawl your images and your images will not appear on our search applications. For example, instead of the following URL:

    http://www.example.com/my picture.jpg

    Please use:

    http://www.example.com/my%20picture.jpg
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