Back in March, Gary Illyes and friends hinted that they might try creating short-form video content for Google’s help docs. Well, Google’s Alan Kent produced one of the first on the topic of why specifying image dimensions is important.
Here is an embed of this YouTube short (proper version this way):
Alan is giving some pretty strong advice here saying that this is a “negative signal” and can negatively affect your Google Search rankings. Here’s what he said:
Advice no. 2.1 Cumulative design change
Did you know that the images on your website can affect your ranking in Google Search results?
If you have a web page and you don’t specify the dimensions of the image, what can happen is when the image loads, the content of the page moves around. This is considered a negative signal by Google Search.
The solution is simple: specify the width and height attributes in the HTML markup of the image.
In any case, I like these short films, we also have John Mueller making these short formats, but not as YouTube shorts for the #AskGooglebot series.
Discussion in the forum a Twitter.
