Google did not drop Web Stories from image results
Google issued a correction plus explained Search Console had a reporting bug with Web Stories in Image Search.
Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.
Google issued a correction plus explained Search Console had a reporting bug with Web Stories in Image Search.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm ETIt can go live at Google I/O in May but likely not on queries with ads.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 28, 2024 at 3:40 pm ETMany sites are seeing zero or little real-time traffic reported in GA4.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 27, 2024 at 11:35 am ETNow when you have multiple images, this markup can help Google known which image the 3D image references.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 26, 2024 at 8:18 am ETThis comes days after the company announced the new CEO of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 26, 2024 at 7:56 am ETMicrosoft announced Deep Search back in December, it went live for some users last month and is now officially live for all users.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 22, 2024 at 12:58 pm ETSome users who do not opt in to the Google Search labs SGE feature may see AI overview answers in the search results.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 22, 2024 at 11:43 am ETThe spam update took nearly 15 days to complete. Google's core update is still rolling out, so we're not done yet. Remain seated and buckled.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 20, 2024 at 9:16 am ETCheenu Venkatachary is also replacing Pandu Nayak as lead of search quality and ranking. Cathy Edwards is moving to the Long-term Bets team.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 18, 2024 at 8:15 pm ETGoogle is investigating the exporting issues with Google Ads Report Editor.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 18, 2024 at 1:31 pm ETGoogle said this will increase efficiency and scale for retail media with self-service.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 18, 2024 at 1:20 pm ETThe perspectives carousels, clusters and traditional web page listings will remain.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 15, 2024 at 11:40 am ETCore Web Vitals are a ranking signal but not other page experience signals.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 12, 2024 at 1:58 pm ETRanking volatility hit on Friday and Saturday, with limited reversals on Monday after a storm of manual actions last Thursday.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 12, 2024 at 8:21 am ETDon't confuse this with the Google Core Update - they are two very different things.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 10, 2024 at 11:43 am ETCheck your properties within Google Search Console for manual actions to see if your were impacted.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 8, 2024 at 8:54 am ETVerification status, managing appeals and managing reviews currently may not be working.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 7, 2024 at 6:56 pm ETGoogle added recipeInstructions and recipeIngredient and thus you may see an increase in warnings for recipe items.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 7, 2024 at 9:24 am ETGoogle says you may see a drop in clicks and impressions for your event search appearance reported metrics in your performance report.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 6, 2024 at 9:44 am ETIndexNow now reached 2.5 billion submitted URLs and accounts for 17% of its clicked on web search results.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 5, 2024 at 4:10 pm ETThe Google helpful content update is now part of the core update; all of this leading to a 40% reduction in unhelpful content within search.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 5, 2024 at 12:00 pm ETEventually these redirects will go away and the website URLs will lead users to a dead end.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 5, 2024 at 8:25 am ETGoogle has new documentation on what it also called host carousels within Google Search.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 29, 2024 at 3:54 pm ETGoogle Chrome will now show you what others are searching for in the search box and search suggestions will show more image thumbnails.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 29, 2024 at 12:00 pm ETIt is unclear if this was intentionally removed or if this is a bug that Google will fix soon.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 27, 2024 at 5:58 am ETGoogle responds that it wants to do better with ranking smaller sites amongst larger sites, only to see that article being outranked by a larger site.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 20, 2024 at 6:37 pm ETThe new product variants has three new properties; hasVariant, variesBy and productGroupID.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 20, 2024 at 6:23 am ET"Don't remove embedded metadata tags such as trainedAlgorithmicMedia from such images," Google wrote.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 19, 2024 at 9:35 am ETDue to the DMA, Google has launched new rich results, aggregator units, refinement chips and flight results.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 15, 2024 at 8:59 am ETDid Google intentionally remove the featured snippets or is this a new bug?
Barry Schwartz | Feb 15, 2024 at 8:27 am ETIn some regions outside of the US, some are seeing local packs in the Google search results but in many regions they are not.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 14, 2024 at 9:53 am ETGoogle also shared new stats on actions it took in 2023 to block fake reviews and local listings.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 13, 2024 at 9:00 am ETGoogle changed where Web Stories show in Google Search and Google Discover - a long time coming...
Barry Schwartz | Feb 9, 2024 at 8:12 am ETMicrosoft previewed Deep Search in December 2023 and now it seems more users are able to see it.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 2, 2024 at 2:21 pm ETThe Google SEO starter guide also has been significantly cut down and shortened. Here's what's changed and why.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 2, 2024 at 10:41 am ETGoogle might add links to the Wayback Machine in place of the cache link.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2024 at 4:06 pm ETStarting at around 11:30 pm ET Monday, January 31, some sites noticed indexing issues with Google Search.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2024 at 5:51 am ETWe now know the specific date as to when Google will replace FID with INP as a Core Web Vitals metric.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 31, 2024 at 2:11 pm ETGoogle has confirmed it is investigating reports of these issues and is working on a fix.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 26, 2024 at 3:00 pm ETNo changes were made to Google Search, this is just a reporting change.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 22, 2024 at 9:00 pm ET