Hello,
The submission of your news article through our Instant Indexing API shouldn’t cause Google to not display its images on Google News.
I can see that that article is submitted with “OK” response so it’s up to Google if they wish to include the images on the News page.
Assuming that you already optimized the images by adding titles and alt tags, I would suggest keep on posting as you are doing and see if the images will appear after a couple of days or weeks. It may be a caching issue on Google’s end.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
Please note that IndexNow submits the URLs to only Bing and Yandex.
The images on Google SERPs are not controlled via the Schema markup or any plugin, but rather they are taken directly from your page when Google thinks it’s beneficial for the user to show those and it mostly depends on the keyword search term and the website authority.
You can try to add relevant ALT text to the images that you want to appear in the search results.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
please keep in mind that for the second URL, text of the article headline and ALT tag are not even exactly matching, but still it appears with image in Google News citation:
Article headline/title: Canelo Vs Bivol – UK & ET Start Times, Running Order, Undercard Fights, And Ring Walks
ALT tag : Canelo vs Bivol UK & ET Start Times, Running Order, Undercard Fights, And Ring Walks
Hello,
As mentioned by my colleague, Google decides on its own whether to show the image or not. All you can do is add the relevant ALT text to the images and wait for Google to decide to show the images in the SERPs. Since most of your old posts already have the images, there is nothing wrong with the SEO setup as the posts with the images have the same settings.
Please wait for Google to crawl the URLs again and see if they decide to include the images in the preview or not.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch in case you need any other assistance.
Thanks.
Re: Please note that IndexNow submits the URLs to only Bing and Yandex.
What could be the reason(s) IndexNow submitting URLs only Bing and Yandex. Why it do not submit to Google (86% market share) or Baidu or any other popular Search Engines.
Hello,
Google has confirmed that they will be testing the IndexNow and they haven’t shared the reason why they still haven’t decided to use it. Same for the other webmasters. You can learn more about IndexNow here: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/indexnow-what-we-know/439679/
Hope this helps. Let us know if you need any other assistance.
Re: why they (Google) still haven’t decided to use it.
Please review these two references could have your answer:
#1) IndexNow Doesn’t Lead To More Traffic Or Improved Crawl Efficiency at https://www.seroundtable.com/yoast-indexnow-proof-33013.html
#2) IndexNow: The Latest Bing Initiative That Improves Crawl Efficiency at https://www.bluehost.com/blog/indexnow-latest-bing-initiative-crawling/
My question was why IndexNow auto submit News URLs automatically to Bing and Yandex only, it suppose to auto submit News URLs to Google, Baidu and other popular Search Engines too.
Hello,
IndexNow doesn’t submit the URLs to Google and other popular search engines because they haven’t yet decided to use IndexNow API. Once they decide to use it, the URLs will also be submitted to them. If you want to submit the URLs to Google for Instant Indexing, you can use our Instant Indexing plugin for that. Here is a guide that can help: https://rankmath.com/blog/google-indexing-api/
Let us know if you need any other assistance.
Thanks.
We are using IndexNow plugin on our WordPress website and all concern was related to this.
Hello,
As mentioned by my colleague, IndexNow doesn’t submit URLs to Google currently. We have a separate plugin that does that or if you prefer, you can also use other similar plugins that submit URLs to Google for indexing.
Looking forward to helping you.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
