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I launched<strong> </strong><a href="https://apps.shopify.com/image-sitemap?ref=william-belk" target="_blank"><strong>Image Sitemap for Shopify</strong></a> in December 2017. To date we have submitted over 500k images to Google Search on behalf of our customers—with those customers seeing an average of <strong>648% increase in indexed images</strong>. I started with a hypothesis about helping merchants reliably improve their Google image indexing. This hypothesis came about due to some limitations with the Shopify platform along with the <em>massive</em> amount of effort needed to manage large image sitemaps (or those greater than 2,000 images and 30,000 lines of XML — some of our customers’ image sitemaps contain more than 500k lines of XML). It seems that my hypothesis is on the way to being strongly validated.