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FeedMender/Errors/Too many additional images

Common rejections

Too many additional image links

Google accepts up to ten additional images beyond the main one. Past that, the surplus is not shown, it is a warning that the feed is sending more than the listing can use.

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What Google requires

At most ten additional images

additional_image_link holds the extra images beyond the main image_link, capped at ten, each a valid, ASCII-encoded URL. Beyond the cap, the excess links are ignored. Google reports the overflow as Too many additional image links.

What Google does

The extra images are dropped, not chosen

Past ten, Google drops the surplus rather than letting you decide which images matter, so a gallery assembled in a particular order may lose exactly the shots you wanted shown. It does not disapprove the product, which is why an over-stuffed image set tends to go unnoticed.

How to fix it by hand

Curate down to ten

  • Keep the ten most useful additional images and drop the rest yourself.
  • Put the single best shot in image_link so the cap does not cost you the main image.
  • Encode every image URL and keep it on a valid scheme.

What FeedMender checks today

One check applies, read from the scanner's registry

The scan counts the additional images per product and flags the ones past the limit of ten.

  • additional_image_countat risk

What the scan does not check today: whether each image loads or what it depicts; it counts the links, it does not fetch them here.

The quicker way

Let the scan count them

Run the free scan and it lists every product sending more than ten additional images. The scan to identify errors is free and shows every finding before you pay anything. You only pay for the fix.

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