How COVID-19 has changed the SEO game as we know it (an IMPACT exclusive interview)

Considering that search ranking sometimes seems to be affected by the flutter of a butterfly’s wings on the other side of the world, what effect will the greatest humanitarian crisis in decades have?

As the world comes to grips with the new realities of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis, many businesses are seeing big changes to their traffic, search rankings, online reviews, and other metrics. To shed some light on these open questions, Narrative SEO founder Franco Valentino came (virtually) to explain what’s happening.

The badge is powered by structured data and part of an effort to help photographers get paid for their images.
Google’s “licensable” badge in Image results is now out of beta. Google also changed the “Usage rights” search filter to let users search for images with creative common or other licenses to address concerns about digital images being commodified and used for free. Licensable badge. Google began testing the badge in February after working with the Center of the Picture Industry (CEPIC) and other news and image associations on ways to increase awareness of image licensing and help image owners sell and get credit for their photos. “For results where the publisher or image creator provided licensing information, we will display a ‘licensable’ badge over the image,” Google said, “When you select a badged image to view, we will show a link to the license details of the image, and if provided by the publisher, you’ll also find a link to where you can purchase or license the image.”

News provided by Barry Schwartz on August 31, 2020