According to Gary Illyes of Google, image and video search are typically the most overlooked, and that SEOs should be paying more attention to them. This came up a number of times through his Reddit AMA on February 8. Illyes even stated in his AMA thread, “Nowadays I’m focusing more on Google Images and Video.” This statement [...]
It seems that Google is rolling out a new design for the previews within image search results. When clicking on an image, rather than loading the preview in a black background frame, Google now displays the image preview on the right-hand side. There are several folks who are seeing this design and interface. When testing [...]
Recently, Cision announced its recent acquisition of Berlin-based visual content performance platform ShareIQ provides with the technology to offer the first earned media platform that tracks visual well as textual content. Cision’s platform originally tracked tracked image performance for brands, based on text associated with the image via social media hashtags or written metadata. It did not [...]
The idea that if you "create visual content and the links will follow," it'll be easy to get those links. It's certainly a great sentiment, but realistically, it's not a guarantee that you'll get those links. If your plan to use images to earn inbound links is set to work, you'll need to make sure [...]
Last week, Google removed the "View Image" button and "Search by Image" feature from Google image search due to a copyright infringement concern with Getty Images. But, by dealing with Getty in best way Google could think of, they inherently made internet quite unhappy with the search company. With this change, searchers have certainly made their voice [...]
Google is testing a new "related searches" box in the mobile version of the Google Image search results page. Robin Rozhon spotted the change and posted a screen shot on Twitter of this new box. I was able to replicate the new user interface. Here's what Robin's screenshot looks like: Here is mine: Google is frequently testing [...]
New filters are being added to Google's trends data, which now makes it possible to see search trends beyond web search Now, users can find real-time search trends on specific search tersm within YouTube, News and Image searches, along with Google Shopping. “We’re opening up more data to show what people in the world are [...]
Google made an announcement that they will now show badges o some images within their image search interface on mobile. Adding badges to images helps searchers understand any data behind the image that Google could have. Google said, “These badges will help you uncover images where next steps or more in-depth information is available — everything [...]
Google is now showing videos and recipe data within the image search results. This was originally something Google was testing earlier this year and now seems to have deployed it on mobile search. In a post by Aaron Bradley on Google+ seems to show this is derived from newly supported schema around your images. You can now mark up [...]
Google Image Search has recently add another filter option to the mobile version of image search. Under the search box, it gives you quick filter links to filter for the latest images, clip art, GIFs, colors and copyright. It's possible to drag the bar to the left to show more color filtering options. You'll find [...]