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Google Content Previews #13535

Open chrisfromthelc opened 4 years ago

chrisfromthelc commented 4 years ago

Google announced that they will allow webmasters to determine their preferences for content previews on websites shown in Google search results. The preferences use a robots HTML meta tag (or x-robots-tag HTTP header) to pass settings along to Googlebot. This appears to be a part of their rich snippets initiative in order to present more relevant data to searchers directly in search results.

Describe the solution you'd like

As part of the Jetpack SEO Tools, it would be advantageous to be able to provide Google with expected parameters for this feature. It would need to be able to be set on a per-page level.

Visually, it could be a simple UI add-on to the existing section that currently houses the SEO description in Calypso.

Image of Calypso SEO section

The UI would need 3-4 settings:

  1. Block snippets altogether
  2. Max snippet length
  3. Max video preview length
  4. Max image preview size (or block image preview)

Blocking altogether could collapse the other options for a cleaner interface.

Additional context

While data-nosnippet is also mentioned in the above-linked article, I think this is something to be approached in Gutenberg directly and not appropriate for this feature request, as it would need to touch individual content blocks in the editor.

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chrisfromthelc commented 4 years ago

I've removed the stale tag on this, given the relative importance for search results that it has. Hopefully we can find time to roll this into the exiting SEO toolset.

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