A new update for Google Image Search was released last November, but this news didn’t hit us until just this week. What does this update improve upon? With this update, there should be less duplicate images, allowing other images to be displayed that are more relevant and more visually distinct. There should be improvement with […]
In this Google Search Central video, John Mueller takes us through the topic of how images work on Google, how you can use images to reach your goals with you site, as well as SEO and optimization best practices for images.
This week the folks at Search Engine Journal clarify why Google’s example of Passage based rankings is poor.
Google Search Console reports and the Rich Results test tool are getting some more support from Google for image license metadata for licensable image label. If you’re using this markup, a new section will appear in the Enhancements reports in the Search Console. If you’re not using the markup, it will not appear to you. […]
Although the virtual reality industry has had billions of dollars put into it, it still isn’t mainstream. But this may not be the case with Augmented reality (AR). Over the last several years, AR features have appeared in a number of different brands and retail apps, including L’Oreal, Wayfair, Crate & Barrel, Gucci, Ikea, Lowes, […]
In an announcement, Google has launched a new feature within Google Images search on mobile to show “quick facts about what you see on Google Images.” Under the image preview window, Google added knowledge panel details that can be opened and expanded to show more information about the image. Google said “when you search for […]
A new structured data element for image license metadata has been released by Google that allows Google Images to show a licensable image label in the search results. The CEPIC, the European picture agency, wrote about this on its blog saying “We are happy to share now that Google Images is releasing a metadata framework through Schema.org for […]
In an announcement made by WordPress, WordPress 5.4 could feature image lazy-loading by default, which enables the “loading” HTML attribute on all IMG elements. WordPress publishers will not have to use JavaScript or third party plugins for lazy-loading their images. The lazy-loading HTML attribute tells a browser to wait before downloading an image, or to […]
On Google’s image search results page, the company is displaying the availability of products to users. This was spotted by Frank Sandtmann, a Hamburg-based digital marking consultant. He noticed that the feature was in English, German and Polish image search results. Powered by product Schema markup, product availability in the image results is denoted in green […]
If visitors arrive on your pages via Google’s Image’s Swipe to Visit feature, they are now accounted for in Search Console under the new “AMP on Image Results” search appearance. This news was announced by Google on August 21. By having Search Console data on how users arrive on your site might be able to help […]