Google Web stories – 10 Reasons They’ll Ban a Web Story
Google web stories – 10 Reasons They’ll reject a Web Story. Google Web story introduced guidelines that warn publishers of ten mistakes to avoid to keep their google web stories from being banned.
Google Web Stories
Web stories is a new kind of content, a new format from google. The web story format is meant for users who are on the go or killing time.
It can now show web stories across all the different kinds of search, including news and Google Discover.
It’s described by Google as snackable content. A typical user might be someone who is waiting for an appointment or on a subway on their way to work.
1. Low Quality Images and Video
Google strongly asserts that low quality images and videos are prohibited. Google defines low quality in terms of pixelation and the lack of distortion in the image or video.
2. Overly Commercial Web Story
Affiliate advertising and display ads are allowed in web stories. However if the content of the web story is commercial, like it’s essentially advertising, then that’s will cause Google to not show it as Google states it is “not allowed.”
3. Copyrighted Content
Google says that they “may” remove infringing content and then links to their web page for reporting infringing content.
Google stated that content that infringes a copyright is prohibited from participating in web stories.
4. Incomplete Stories
Google prohibits content that requires users to click through to a site to see the entire content. A web story must be complete.
5. Lack of Narrative
These are called Web Stories because they have a narrative, i.e. this happened today, which resulted in that, of which people commented X.
6. Too Many Words or Too Much Video Content
Google’s guidelines for web stories is that web story pages are limited to 180 words. Google also encourages publishers to use video content that is less than 60 seconds in length.
7. Overly Commercial Web Story
Affiliate advertising and display ads are allowed in web stories. However if the content of the web story is commercial, like it’s essentially advertising, then that’s will cause Google to not show it as Google states it is “not allowed.”
