{"id":267,"date":"2022-07-26T06:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T06:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/google-experiments-with-youtube-shorts-for-seo-helpful-content\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T06:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T06:15:54","slug":"google-experiments-with-youtube-shorts-for-seo-helpful-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Google experiments with YouTube shorts for SEO-helpful content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Back in March, Gary Illyes and friends hinted that they might try creating short-form video content for Google&#8217;s help docs.  Well, Google&#8217;s Alan Kent produced one of the first on the topic of why specifying image dimensions is important. <\/p>\n<p>Here is an embed of this YouTube short (proper version <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/KodQzcoagy4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this way<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Specify image dimensions for better SEO #Shorts\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KodQzcoagy4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alan is giving some pretty strong advice here saying that this is a &#8220;negative signal&#8221; and can negatively affect your Google Search rankings.  Here&#8217;s what he said:<\/p>\n<p>Advice no.  2.1 Cumulative design change<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that the images on your website can affect your ranking in Google Search results? <\/p>\n<p>If you have a web page and you don&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>The solution is simple: specify the width and height attributes in the HTML markup of the image. <\/p>\n<p>In any case, I like these short films, we also have John Mueller making these short formats, but not as YouTube shorts for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLKoqnv2vTMUM9wKeb-Gvm8bgpFM72yiXw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AskGooglebot series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion in the forum a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glenngabe\/status\/1539635455783755777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-youtube-shorts-for-seo-help-content-33642.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in March, Gary Illyes and friends hinted that they might try creating short-form video content for Google&#8217;s help Well, Google&#8217;s Alan Kent produced one of the first on the topic of why specifying image dimensions is Here&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}