How to enable Web Stories on your site for Google Search

Web Stories is a web version of the popular "stories" format, which combines video, audio, images, animation and text to create dynamic experience in content consumption. This visual format allows you to explore content at a rate convenient for you, glitting it or leafing through one fragment to another.

This manual explains how to make your Web Stories available for display in Google Search (including Discover) for your Google website.

If you are the creator of content, read the resources of creating stories without the need for programming.

Here is a brief overview of how to enable Web Stories on your site for Google:

Create Web Story.
Make sure Web Story is a valid AMP.
Check metadata.
Check if the Web Story is indexed in Google.
Follow the content policy for Web Stories.

Accessibility of the function for your site in Google

Web Stories can appear as a separate result in Google Search, which is available in all regions and languages where Google Search is available.

In the Discover Web Stories tape, a separate card can appear through which you can pave the story. This format is available in all regions and languages where Google Discover is available, 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 as ordinary web pages. There are two ways to start:

Choose one of the many Story editors to create stories without the need for programming.
If you have resources for development, you can start with AMP. To make sure that your Web Story is displayed correctly, we recommend using Chrome Developer Tools to simulate different sizes and formats of devices.

To ensure an uninterrupted process, read the best practices for creating Web Stories.

Make sure your Web Story is a valid AMP for your Google site

After you created Web Story, make sure that it is a valid AMP. Valid AMP Story is the one that corresponds to various AMP specifications. This allows Story to be served through the AMP cache and guarantees performance and the best experience for users. You can use the following tools to check if your Web Story is a valid AMP:

Google Web Stories Checking Tools: Check if your Web Story is valid.
URL checking tool: Check if your Web Story is valid AMP and whether it is indexed in Google.
AMP Linter: Valid Web Stories while developing through the command line.

Check the metadata for the Web Story of your site in Google

In order for your Web Story to be available in Google Search or Discover, it is necessary to provide the necessary metadata to display Story in preliminary viewing.

Look at the full list of metadata.
Check that preliminary viewing of your Web Story is correctly displayed in Web Stories Google Test Tool.

Remember that the following fields are required for each Web Story: Publisher-Logo-SRC, Poster-Portrait-SRC, Title and Publisher.

Check if your Web Story is indexed in Google for your site

Check if Google index your Web Story. Use the URL check tool to send separate URLs or view the status through the page indexation report or SITEMAP report. If your Web Story is not indexed:

In order for Google to be easier to find your Web Story, add a link to Web Story on your site or add the URL of your Web Story to Sitemap.
All Web Stories should be canonical. Make sure that each Web Story has a link Rel = "Canonical". For example: . If there are several versions of the same story in different languages, indicate Google about localized versions.
Check that the URL Web Story is not blocked for Googlebot via Robot.txt or Noindex tag.

If you have questions about creating Web Stories or setting them up for your Google website, you can contact the SEO.computer SEO company for any issue for email info@seo.computer Or in WhatsApp +79202044461.

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