How to enable Web Stories for your Google website

Web Stories is a web version of the popular "Stories" format, which combines video, audio, images, animation and text, creating a dynamic experience in content consumption. This visual format allows you to explore content at a rate convenient for you, pressing or running a finger on the screen from one element of content to the next.

This manual explains how to make your Web Stories available for display in the Google search engine (including Discover) for your site.

If you are the creator of content, read these resources to create stories without the need for coding.

Here is a review of how to enable Web Stories for your Google site:

Create Web Story.
Make sure Web Story meets AMP requirements.
Check metadata.
Check if your Web Story is indexed.
Follow the content policy for Web Stories.

Availability of Web Stories function in Google

Web Stories can be displayed as a separate result in the Google search engine, which is available in all regions and in all languages where Google Search is available.

In the Discover Web Stories tape, they can be displayed as a separate card on which you can draw with a finger. This format is available in regions and languages where Google Discover works, but most often it appears in the USA, India and Brazil.

How to create Web Story for your Google site

Web Stories are web pages, and they should follow the same recommendations and best practices that apply to the publication of ordinary web pages. There are two ways to start:

Select one of the instruments of the Story editor to create stories without the need for coding.
If you have resources for development, you can start with AMP. In order for your Web Story to be correctly displayed, it is recommended to use Chrome developer tools to simulate various sizes of devices and formats.

To ensure a successful process, read the best practices of creating Web Stories for your Google site.

Make sure your Web Story meets amp requirements

After you have created a story, make sure that it meets AMP standards. The correct Web Story in AMP is the one that meets the various technical requirements of AMP. This allows Story to be served through the AMP cache, which guarantees the best experience for your users. You can use the following tools to check the correctness of the AMP of your Web Story:

Google test for testing Web Stories: Check that your Web Story is correct.
URL testing tool: check that your Web Story meet the requirements of AMP and how it is indexed in Google.
AMP Linter: Check Web Stories during the development process through the command line.

Check the metadata for your Web Story

In order for your Web Story to appear in the search for Google or Discover, provide the necessary metadata to display history in the preview.

Look at the full list of metadata.
Check that the preview of your Web Story is correctly displayed in the tool for testing the Google Web Stories.

Do not forget that the following fields are required for each Web Story: Publisher-Logo-SRC, Poster-Portrait-SRC, Title and Publisher.

Check your Web Story indexing in Google

Check if your Web Story was indexed in the Google search engine. Use the URL testing tool to send separate URLs or view the status through a page indexing report or a site card report.

If your Web Story is not indexed:

To simplify the discovery of your Web Story Google, add links to your story from your site or add url to your sitemap.
All Web Stories should be canonical. Make sure that each Web Story has a link Rel = "Canonical".
Check if the URL has your Web Story URL for Googlebot via Robot.txt or Noindex tag.

The best practices for creating Web Stories for your Google site

Make sure your Web Story corresponds to all the recommendations and best practices to ensure the best presentation of your content in Google and Discover.

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