Google has clarified in its image search help documentation that images are only extracted from the src attribute of img tags in Google Search. This is not new, but Google decided to update its documentation based on some questions it received about the topic. The new line reads: Google Search supports images referenced in the … Read more
John Mueller from Google said that ranking well in the Google Shopping or Google Image vertical boxes does not impact your ranking in the core web results. He said, “I can’t imagine that they’d be connected” when asked about how ranking well in the Merchant Center results can impact the web results. Christian Radny asked: … Read more
Google is testing showing four images, instead of three images, in its search results. This is a small change but it does give more publishers a chance to show their images on the first page. This was spotted by Khushal Bherwani who shared some screenshots on X: This is what I see: Khushal posted more … Read more
Google has posted yet another reporting and data logging issue with Google Search Console. This one occurred between March 28, 2024 through April 2, 2024 and impacted reporting on AMP pages and Web Stories in Google Images. This was just a reporting issue and did not impact real traffic. Google wrote, “A logging error prevented … Read more
In February, Google told us they stopped showing Web Stories in Google Image search results. Well, last *****, Google issued a correction saying Google has been showing Web Stories in Google Images but the Web Stories icon does not show. To make things worse, Search Console had a bug where it was not reporting these … Read more
Google’s John Mueller offered a suggestion about a long-standing problem with missing images in search results for recipe sites but recipe bloggers don’t seem convinced or satisfied. Missing Images In The Search Results Several recipe bloggers have for the past few months brought up the issue of image thumbnails that stopped appearing in the search … Read more
Did you know that Google Search does not support the AVIF image format? At least not yet. Google Search doesn’t list it on its supported image formats and Google Image Search simply won’t index them. But John Mueller of Google said on X, “I’m sure this won’t be necessary long term.” Meaning, Google will eventually … Read more
Google is once again investigating issues with recipe images and other images not showing for some sites within the Google Search results. We reported on several issues with recipe sites several weeks ago and it seems to be happening again for some of these sites. I am not sure if it is related to Google … Read more
For the past several months Google Image search has been showing a notice for some meme related queries. The notice reads, “Memes about groups of people might be disturbing or hurtful.” It comes up for many queries and again is not new, it has been around for several months. Here is an example: I think … Read more
Google Merchant Center has clarified that if you use AI-generated images within your Merchant Center feed you must indicate that the image was created using generative AI. Google posted, “If you’re using AI-generated images in Merchant Center, Google requires that you preserve any metadata tags which indicate that the image was created using generative AI … Read more
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