Can we validate a CDN like Max in Webmasters?
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Hi, Can we validate a CDN like Max in Webmasters?
We have images hosted in CDN and they dont get indexed in Google images. Its been a year now and no luck. Maxcdn says they have no issues at there end and images have ALT and they are original images with no copyright issues
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You can't get their domain validated in your Google Search Console account (unless they add you as a user to their account), however there is a workaround more or less described here: Getting CDN images indexed with Google
In short:
If your image is for example on https://12345.maxcdn.com/images/directory/subdirectory/image-filename.jpgYou can add a CNAME (alternate domain name) to make the URLs formatted like this: http://images.yourdomain.com/images/directory/subdirectory/image-filename.jpg
After that you can add "images.yourdomain.com" as a verified domain in Google Search Console and treat it as a new subdomain, incl. sitemaps etc.
Hope this helps
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