Google Releases a Visual Manual for Search Elements
The many components of a search results page are shown and defined in Google’s new manual for search features.
If your inquiry doesn’t include the relevant terms, it could be difficult to receive the right response when you need assistance with SEO.
Ask, “How can I personalize the picture that displays in search snippets?” as an example.
Three distinct things may be referred to by the query: a text response image, a picture thumbnail, or even a favicon.
When employing such ambiguous language, the individual posing the query could not get the assistance they need.
The new Google guide makes it simple to pinpoint the precise search component that needs assistance so that you may receive more pertinent responses.
Let’s look at what’s in the manual.
The structure of a Google SERP
The most frequent elements on a search results page are highlighted in Google’s new Visual Elements Gallery.
These are the primary components of a Google SERP:
Identifiers like the site’s name, URL, and favicon are included in the attribution.
Frequently known as the “10 blue links,” text results
Rich results are text results that include extra lines of content, including review ratings and recipe steps.
Results for movies and images are taken from websites that are shown in search results.
Exploration capabilities: frequently known as “People Also Ask.”
Each of the aforementioned components has an example in Google’s guide that depicts how it may appear in search results.
The tutorial also illustrates the many characteristics found inside each of the key search components.
Google specifically refers to the following search characteristics when it uses the term “attribution” in the picture below:
There are now 22 search features listed in Google’s Visual Elements Gallery, but there may be more in the future.
Google claims in a blog post that it can simply add more components to the manual and could do so as other search features gain popularity.
“That is our plan: if a visual element gains popularity on search result webpages, we could add it to the gallery. Our new arrangement makes it simpler for us to add additional visual components to the photo album without exerting too much work on our side. However, we only want to provide the components that are useful to website owners and SEOs.”
