hello!
I can't see where to configure the sitemap so the images are listed on the gnews sitemap file http://metrolibre.com/sitemap/gnews

I see no image:loc

I'm trying to fix an issue that I search news for my site, they list on the google news BUT the image has another link to another media. Title links correctly, image won't.

I'm attaching an image of the listing. Green arrows point to everything that is good, red arrow to the image that, if clicked, points to another media.

Hello,

you can't manage images for news using the gnews sitemap. The Google News XML format doesn't support images informations at all. What image to pick for the news is up to Google based on the HTML of your website, the only way that you could help Google to identify a particular image is using meta tags for medias.

Said that, i've no idea how and why Google is showing a link to the image not good in the search result, but most probably it's related only on informations found in the HTML by the Google Bot, nothing to do with sitemaps.

I searched the google news forums and it's related to the og:image at the article's meta or image:loc at the sitemap file.

I see none of it. Is there any place to config this?

As i said you previously, it's most probably related to the og:image meta tags found in the article page.
You should try to use a plugin like this one to configure it: http://extensions.joomla.org/extension/simple-facebook-meta

I just ran "grep -Ril og:image" and I found

administrator/components/com_jmap/sql/install.mysql.utf8.sql
administrator/components/com_jmap/models/ajaxserver.php
administrator/components/com_jmap/installscript.php
administrator/components/com_jmap/framework/file/metainfo.php
administrator/components/com_jmap/views/metainfo/tmpl/default_list.php
administrator/components/com_jmap/js/metainfo.js
plugins/system/jmap/jmap.php

And there's a table jmap_metainfo on my database but it's empty.

one of these files tries to pull the info from that table but, as it is empty, throws nothing in return.

How do I make this work?


I'm looking at file administrator/components/com_jmap/framework/file/metainfo.php line 106

Code:

105 // Check if the link as primary key already exists in this table 106 $selectQuery = "SELECT" . $this->dbo->quoteName('id') . 107 "\n FROM " . $this->dbo->quoteName('#__jmap_metainfo') . 108 "\n WHERE" . 109 $this->dbo->quoteName('linkurl') . " = " . $this->dbo->quote($dbRecord[COM_JMAP_METAINFO_LINK]); 110 $linkExists = $this->dbo->setQuery ( $selectQuery )->loadResult(); 111 112 // If the link exists just update it, otherwise insert a new one 113 if($linkExists) { ........

This code isn't running. Table isn't filling, as the query on line 106 isn't being executed. What do I need to do to make this work?

I found the image:loc tag on your same code!!!
file: components/com_jmap/views/sitemap/tmpl/default_images_content.php

line: 164

Code:

<image:loc><?php echo htmlspecialchars(preg_match('/^http|^\/\//i', $imageLink) ? ($cdnProtocol && strpos($imageLink, 'http') === false ? $cdnProtocol . $imageLink : $imageLink) : $this->liveSite . '/' . ltrim($imageLink, '/'), null, 'UTF-8', false);?></image:loc>

I need to make this work properly. Tell me what I need to config to make this work as it should.