The Visual Stories carousel appears in Google SERPs. Prepare to rank in there by leveraging the Web Stories format, now!
Google now has a dedicated carousel of Visual Stories in its search results. Web Stories are rolling out in a big way. They now have a dedicated space in Google SERPs as well as Google Discover. This is surely a major change for the SEO, rather a big SEO opportunity.
As a user, you've probably been creating and consuming Stories on platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. Web Stories are like that, but they are search engine-friendly and monetizable. They are an amazing combination of AMP and interactive storytelling. These vertical, mobile-first Visual Stories offer a plethora of benefits in terms of performance and user engagement metrics. And now these Stories have a separate space in Google search results! What more can you ask for? Get ready to rank in there by leveraging the Web Stories format, right away.
After Google announced the launch of Web Stories, it was expected that they would eventually bring this content format into mainstream. And here they are!
Web Stories will be a huge SEO opportunity in the coming years. It will be relatively easier for content written in the Stories format to rank, but only until competition catches up. This is definitely an alarm for the SEO community to rise up to visual storytelling, the search engine-friendly way. In the overwhelmingly competitive world of SEO, easy opportunities are rare. If you have struggled to get rankings on your keywords in Google search, make an early shift to the Web Stories format and boost the ranking potential of your content. Hop on the Visual Stories trend and grow your online presence.
Your Web Stories will rank in the Stories carousel until your competition comes up with Stories targeting the same keywords. It’s all about timing it right. Competition may not crop up soon in your niche due to lack of tools to build AMP Stories. Our AMP Story Builder is a user-friendly tool available openly on the web for anyone to use. Even if competition swells up for highly popular keywords, there will still be a lot other keywords on which you won’t face much competition for a year or two. You can get a lot of business done by then! Let your content be in the right place at the right time.
The Stories format is hugely popular on social media, especially Instagram and Snapchat. Facebook recently declared its vision for the future: “Less News Feed, more Stories”. Now Google’s own Youtube has launched Stories.
Web Stories is Google's answer to the Stories trend. Google recently closed G+ and is now making its search results look more visual and like social media. It clearly looks like in the coming years, Google will bet heavily on Web Stories.
Web Stories are regular web pages and compete intensely to rank in regular search results. AMP Web Stories score very high in web vitals performance metrics and help your page pass crucial ranking factors.
Put your content in the right format. Web Stories format helps you write crisp, clear, concise content and present it in a visually striking way.
Easy opportunities don't come often in the fiercely competitive world of search. Leverage the Web Stories format now. Time it right. Be an early adopter. Grab this unique SEO opportunity, before your competition catches up. Take the first step towards a bright future.
Our tooling will help you leverage Google's innovative mobile-focused AMP technology to create visual, vertical, user-first, and mobile-focused Web Stories. It'll make your content give real results and help you get better ROI from your content creation efforts.
Write in the modern storytelling format. Be different. Create compelling content to engage your audiences. SEO was never this amazing!