In February, Google informed us they stopped displaying Internet Tales in Google Picture search outcomes. Properly, final night time, 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 suppose that Internet Tales had been actually not displaying in Google Picture Search.
Google wrote, “Internet Tales proceed to look in Google Photographs, simply as different internet content material might 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 information anomalies section saying:
A logging error prevented Search Console from reporting on Internet Tales in Google Photographs from August 28, 2023 till March 26, 2024. Consequently, it’s possible you’ll discover a lower in clicks and impressions throughout this era on your Internet Tales within the Search Console Efficiency report. This has been resolved and it’s possible you’ll begin to discover a rise in clicks and impressions, as the info returns to Search Console. This didn’t replicate a change in precise clicks or impressions, solely a problem with information logging.
Here’s what that report appears to be like like while you restricted it to indicate Picture outcomes with Internet Tales – you get nothing:
So between the inaccurate communication and the Search Console bug, all of us form of thought that Google actually was not displaying Internet Tales in Google Photographs however they had been…
Here’s what it appears to be like like earlier than and after with/out the net 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 information 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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