When to include image files (png, gif, jpg, etc.) in crawl?

[dculp]

In my "Configuration\Crawler rules" all image files are excluded by default. Under what circumstances should these images be included in the crawl?

Thanks,
Don C.

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

those links should be excluded from crawling (i.e. fetching from your website). They will be included in images sitemap anyway though.