In February, Google informed us they stopped displaying Internet Tales in Google Picture search outcomes. Properly, final evening, Google issued a correction saying Google has been displaying Internet Tales in Google Photographs however the Internet Tales icon doesn’t present. To make issues worse, Search Console had a bug the place it was not reporting these impressions or clicks making us assume that Internet Tales have been actually not displaying in Google Picture Search.
Google wrote, “Internet Tales proceed to look in Google Photographs, simply as different net content material could seem, however Internet Tales now not seem with the Internet Tales icon in Google Photographs. Additionally, a bug that was blocking Search Console reporting for these URLs in Google Photographs is now resolved.”
Google posted within the Search Console knowledge anomalies part saying:
A logging error prevented Search Console from reporting on Internet Tales in Google Photographs from August 28, 2023 till March 26, 2024. Consequently, you might discover a lower in clicks and impressions throughout this era to your Internet Tales within the Search Console Efficiency report. This has been resolved and you might begin to discover a rise in clicks and impressions, as the info returns to Search Console. This didn’t mirror a change in precise clicks or impressions, solely a difficulty with knowledge logging.
Here’s what that report appears to be like like whenever you restricted it to point out Picture outcomes with Internet Tales – you get nothing:
So between the inaccurate communication and the Search Console bug, all of us type of thought that Google actually was not displaying Internet Tales in Google Photographs however they have been…
Here’s what it appears to be like like earlier than and after with/out the online tales icon:
Additionally, Google now clarified that Internet Tales *can* nonetheless rank in Google Photographs, however they will not obtain the Tales icon anymore. Here’s a earlier than/after. And the reporting error is now resolved, so you will notice that knowledge present up once more within the Efficiency reporting for Google Photographs. pic.twitter.com/dRM6XiOaEt
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) March 29, 2024
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