Friday, May 06, 2022<\/p>\n
\n Over the years, we introduced a number of tags and tag attributes for Google sitemap extensions, \n Upon evaluating the value of the Google sitemap extension tags, we decided to officially deprecate \n If you are a sitemap plugin developer or manage your own sitemaps, there’s no immediate action \n The following tags and attributes are affected:\n<\/p>\n
\n specifically the Image<\/a> and
\n Video<\/a> extensions. Most of these tags
\n were added to allow site owners to deliver data more easily to Search.\n<\/p>\n
\n some tags and attributes, and remove them from our documentation. The deprecated tags will have no
\n effect on indexing and search features after August 6, 2022.\n<\/p>\n
\n required; you can leave these tags and attributes in place without drawbacks. In the future,
\n Search Console may show warnings once these updates are included in the next schema versions of
\n the Image<\/a> and
\n Video<\/a> extensions.\n<\/p>\n
| Sitemap extension<\/th>\n | Deprecated XML tag or attribute<\/th>\n | Recommendation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image sitemap<\/a><\/td>\n | caption<\/code><\/td>\n |