Google announced on August 6, 2022 it will no longer help some of the video and impression sitemap extension tags. Google explained “On assessing the value of the Google sitemap extension tags, we made a decision to formally deprecate some tags and attributes, and eliminate them from our documentation.”
This will materialize following August 6, 2022 and Google said the “deprecated tags will have no result on indexing and search capabilities” immediately after that date.
These exclusively effects the caption, geo_area, title and license tags or attributes inside graphic sitemaps and class, participant_loc[@allow_embed], player_loc[@autoplay], gallery_loc, price[@all] and tvshow[@all] in just movie sitemaps.
Google could notify internet sites that are utilizing these tags about this in Google Lookup Console in the potential. Gary Illyes from Google wrote “if you are a sitemap plugin developer or deal with your individual sitemaps, there is no quick motion essential you can leave these tags and attributes in area with no disadvantages.” “In the foreseeable future, Look for Console may perhaps show warnings the moment these updates are bundled in the future schema variations of the Picture and Movie extensions,” Gary Illyes extra.
Google is undertaking this to simplify sitemap extensions, Google stated it hopes “you can also lower complexity of your codebases, and sitemaps will be considerably less cluttered in general.”
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