Featured Image on Google Desktop Preview

  • Resolved hiphipgourmet

    (@hiphipgourmet)


    2 years, 1 month ago

    Hi there,

    I just have a general question regarding the featured image and Yoast SEO Plugin on wordpress. It is my understanding that even if a featured image is set for each post in the yoast side tool bar, it is still up to google whether or not they are going to display it. I’m asking this question because I have a few of my blog posts come up on google and even though a featured image has been set for the post, it does not display in google web search on desktop.

    However, if I use the google preview tool in yoast before publishing the post, I am able to see that the mobile results preview display the featured image yet the desktop preview does not. This is the case for all of my posts. Does that mean there is something wrong with the yoast plugin when it comes to displaying a featured image on a desktop search result since it is not even displayed in the preview? or does the google desktop preview in yoast never display a featured image?

    Thanks,

    Andrea @hiphipgourmet

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  • Plugin Support Rohan Sadanandan

    (@rohans123)

    Hi @hiphipgourmet,

    Thanks for reaching out.

    As you have mentioned, you’ll find an image only in the mobile version of the snippet preview tool. Sometimes, Google adds this image to its search results snippets on mobile. To mimic this behavior, we automatically add your post’s featured image to Yoast’s Google preview.

    You can read more about using the Google snippet preview in Yoast SEO here: https://yoast.com/snippet-preview/.

    Jeroen Rotty

    (@jeroenrotty)

    This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of activity, but you’re always welcome to re-open the topic. Please read this post before opening a new request.

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