Again in March, Gary Illyes and associates hinted that they might attempt creating brief type video content material for the Google assist paperwork. Properly, Google’s Alan Kent produced one of many first ones on the subject of why you will need to specify picture dimensions.

Right here is an embed of that YouTube brief (correct model over right here):

Alan is giving some fairly sturdy recommendation right here saying this can be a “unfavorable sign” and may negatively influence your Google Search rankings. Here’s what he stated:

Tip #2.1 Cumulative Format Shift

Do you know that pictures in your website online can influence your rankings in Google Search outcomes?

When you’ve got an internet web page and it doesn’t specify the picture dimensions, what can occur is when the picture is loaded, the web page content material with shift round. That is taken as a unfavorable sign by Google Search.

The answer is straightforward: To specify the width and peak attributes within the HTML markup of the picture.

In any occasion, I form of like these shorts, we do even have John Mueller doing these brief codecs however not as YouTube shorts for the #AskGooglebot sequence.

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