Final week, Google started sending new notices by way of Google Search Console about methods to boost your pictures on Google. The discover talks about utilizing the max-image-preview robots meta tag on all search-eligible pictures in your web site.

This max-image-preview is a number of years previous, as we lined right here and it allows you to specify a most dimension of picture preview to be proven for pictures on this web page, utilizing both “none”, “normal”, or “giant”.

The e-mail Google is sending reads:

Google has recognized that you haven’t utilized the max-image-preview robots meta tag to all search-eligible pictures in your web site. With out this tag, your pictures will seem solely in thumbnail dimension on Google (together with Google internet search, Google Photographs, Uncover, and Assistant).

If you need to allow giant picture previews on these surfaces for a picture, you are able to do so by making use of the next tag as soon as within the head part of the picture host web page:

meta title=”robots” content material=”max-image-preview:giant

Here’s a screenshot I’ve:

Lily Ray noticed this and posted about it on Twitter, she mentioned “Surprise how many individuals who’ve been saying “why am I not getting visitors from Uncover” will understand that is the reply.”

Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.