Image Search Issues Due to "Read More" Section

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   eugbugposted 3 years ago

   So a 10 year old article I wrote on Owlcation has been pushed out of SERPS, because there's a newer article on the same subject on Owlcation topping the ranks. That's an issue but the second problem is that the other article has the title image from my article in the "Read More" section inserted by Hubpages. Google finds this image and lists it in image search (twice) The double whammy is that when I click on my image, it doesn't lead to my article, but to the other one. So my title image is advertising the other guide and I lose both ways. Either that or Google has a bug. I don't know whether there's a way around this?

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      chef-de-jourposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Your 10 year old article should be of greater value, and ought to take precedence over a newcomer? I presume you've been updating it etc etc? Perhaps shifts in recent updates from Google have changed the game with regards SEO, relevance and so on?
      What about titles? Length of newer article? Format? When you say pushed out of SERPS do you mean your article is no longer ranked at all, or you're lower on the first page? Would it be helpful if I checked from my end to see if there's a discrepancy?

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         eugbugposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         I have been modifying it, but I split it up and removed content to create a new article (it was excessively long). The title is similar to the other article's title, but there's not a lot I can do about the keywords because it's about a specific topic in physics. It not totally gone out of SERPS, but it is for the group of keywords in the title.
         It's this one:
         https://owlcation.com/stem/Force-Weight … y-and-Mass

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            chef-de-jourposted 3 years agoin reply to this

            Yes, top position is Britannica
            Yours is second  (4 days ago)
            Ray is third (9 Dec 2021)
            
            I'm in UK using a mobile and Google.

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               chef-de-jourposted 3 years agoin reply to this

               I googled
               Newton's Three laws of motion: force, mass and acceleration

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               eugbugposted 3 years agoin reply to this

               It might be different if the search region is set to the UK. I had my region set to the US. I'll change to UK and check.
               If I search for "Newton's Laws of Motion" or "Newton's Three Laws of Motion" on their own, the guide isn't listed in SERPS.

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   Stephen Tomkinsonposted 3 years ago

   In Spain, your piece comes up second, under NASA's entry.

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   eugbugposted 3 years ago

   I've managed to get Danny Sullivan of Google interested on Twitter, so might be able to get to the bottom of it. The problem seems to be due to Hubpages using our images on other articles.

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   eugbugposted 3 years ago

   This is how the featured snippet looks. My title image is the one with the sky blue text background colour. But Google is pulling this from Ray's guide. According to Danny Sullivan, Google take two photos from the same URL to use in a snippet. So when I click on my image, it leads to Ray's guide.
   

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   eugbugposted 3 years ago

   I've emailed the theme to see whether they can remove the guide from the"Read More" section, but I presume the code selects articles automatically from the domain so not likely to work.

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