From the recent updates, it has been out that Google has come out with some warning reasons for the publishers. There are around 6 mistakes that the publishers should avoid if they want their stories from being blocked. Read down the full article carefully, if you are interested in knowing in detail.
What is Google Web Stories?
Google Web Stories is a feature that helps publishers in bringing more traffic to their site. However, due to the high people using this feature Google has said that they are going to ban a web story if the below-mentioned 6 mistakes are done by the publishers. Ergo, anyone making these 6 mistakes will be totally blocked off from appearing in the search results of Google. Below mentioned are 6 reasons, look them properly if you want to avoid your stories from getting blocked.
- Copyrighted Content-
Google stated that all the content that will promote copyrighted content will be the first one to be prohibited from participating in the web stories. Furthermore, Google said that they are going to remove the infringing content and links to their web page for reporting copyrighted content. It seems like Google is relying on the publishers to alert Google when some copies down content. Therefore, this is the first mistake that all publishers should avoid making in order to avoid getting blocked from web stories. Now, we will jump on to the other mistake.
- Too Many Words or Too Much Video Content-
Google says that web story pages are limited only to 180 words. Furthermore, Google encourages publishers to use video content for less than 60 seconds. This means that everyone should avoid using too many words and video content. Therefore, publishers are very much requested to stop making this mistake, if they seriously want to avoid getting blocked from web stories.
- Low-Quality Images and Videos-
Google strongly says that all the low-quality videos and images are prohibited. This means that no one can post low-quality images and videos with their content. Therefore, low-quality images and videos are described as something having low pixelation and lack of distortion. Hence, avoid making this mistake if you don’t want to get blocked from web stories.
- Lack of Narrative-
These are referred to as web stories because they are the ones having a narrative. Narrative means that this happened today, resulted in this, the solution came out to be this, people commented this, that and many more. Ergo, this is the fourth mistake that people should avoid making.
- Incomplete Stories-
Google prohibits that type of content that requires users to click through to the site to see the entire content. In simple words, the web story should be properly completed.
- Overly Commercial Web Story-
Affiliate advertising and display ads are allowed in web stories but they should be over. However, if the content is commercial then definitely advertising is essential but the ads should not be more than specified.
Therefore, these are the new guidelines that Google gave and it is very much important for the publishers to avoid these mistakes. If they want to avoid getting blocked from web stories.
