Thursday, November 7, 2013

New Google Penalty For "Image Mismatch"

There is a new Google manual action that you need to be aware of named "image mismatch." This manual action is when your images on your site don't match what Google is indexing and displaying in their search results.

An anonymous reader sent me a screen shot of the notification he received for this on his site:



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It reads:

Images from this site are displayed differently on Google search results pages than they are when displayed on this site.
A form of cloaking or something less intentional like using hotlink protection techniques to prevent or discourage users from stealing your images?

Have you seen this manual action?

by Barry Schwartz

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