Just when we thought we had SEO in the bag Google announces a big change. They have just announced that they will soon be unveiling a whole new look to their search results page. This will be influenced by several factors but will include multiple search items in the results such as images, news, video, etc. This means that SEO will now expand into video SEO and image SEO, as you can now legitimately count on some traffic from normal Google searches if your images or videos show up.

Do I like this idea? Not really. I hope they have an option for “classic” search because I don’t really want to see images and other media items in my search results. 10 times out of 10 I am searching for a web page. 1 time out of 100 I want to find an image or video. Either way, time will be the judge of this. A change this big could make or break Google if they aren’t careful. By “break” I most definitely do not mean “kill”. If it doesn’t work I’m sure they have a plan B for making people happy again but we’ll see.

Google says they are very confident this will be a huge benefit for users and search relevance. I’m looking forward to trying out the new system but I just hope I don’t lose my search engine rankings that I worked so hard to get.

Source: searchnewz