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My internet shop displays thumbnails of products' images, and I see that these thumbnail are (slowly) being indexed by Google. I want also full images to be indexed. (I've seen some other questions on that topic, but this one is not a duplicate I think).

So my question is:can I use microdata for this? Something like this:

<meta itemprop="image" content="/uploads/images/medium/product_img.jpg" />

Or:

<meta itemprop="image" src="/uploads/images/medium/product_img.jpg" />

Would it do the trick?

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You should use

<meta itemprop="image" content="/uploads/images/medium/product_img.jpg">

Since src="" is associated with embedding content on the page and content="" is associated with embedding items off the page so to speak. This is the same method as used with the Facebook Open Graph meta as well, take a look:

<meta property='og:image' content='/uploads/images/medium/product_img.jpg'/>
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Ant this is the confirmation I was looking for. I will try it, and hopefully Google will index these images, thanks! – Al W Mar 3 at 18:50

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