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 [...]
In this installment of Ask Google Webmasters, John Mueller goes over a series of tips on optimizing images for search results. Mueller, before talking about the technical details of image optimization, asks site owners to take a step back and take a look at the larger picture. Basically, don't optimize images just for the sake [...]
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. The image search results for the query “rpg dice.” Powered by product Schema markup, product [...]
A few weeks ago, Google had announced at its Google I/O event about its support for 3D images and AR within search. This feature is no live and available for use. Searches are able to search for objects such as [shark], [lion], [panda], [alligator] and the such. When users perform these searches, they can see [...]
During the State of the Search session at Google I/O on Thursday, Google announced that it will launch higher quality image support, 3D images, as well as the ability to swipe up images from AMP pages. Here's some info regarding the 3D images from Google’s keynote Wednesday, and swipe navigation with AMP articles. According to Google, [...]
With Yoast's 11.1 SEO plugin update, image and video Schema enhancements have been implemented into their service. Even though it won't necessarily improve your ranking by adding Schema, it can at least enhance the way your results appear. Google is showing more images in web search results, which means that if you add the appropriate [...]
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 [...]