{"id":81428,"date":"2025-09-23T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/81428\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:57:09","slug":"how-to-make-sure-the-verge-shows-up-in-your-google-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/81428\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make sure The Verge shows up in your Google search results\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last year has brought some of the biggest changes to Google\u2019s search results pages that I have ever seen in my near-decade of experience working in digital media. And not all of those changes are welcome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, there\u2019s now a way to customize what you see in search \u2014 and to prioritize seeing The Verge. You can do this by selecting The Verge as a preferred source<\/a> in Google. This tells Google that you want to see us in the \u201cTop stories\u201d carousel on its search results page whenever our coverage is relevant to your search.<\/p>\n

The easiest way to do this is to click this link<\/a><\/strong> and check the box that says The Verge, and you\u2019ll be set.<\/p>\n

You can also follow The Verge in Discover<\/a><\/strong>, the feed that lives on the homescreen of the Google app, by tapping \u201cFollow\u201d when you see us appear in your feed. In a similar vein, Google will then prioritize showing our content in your Discover feed.<\/p>\n

Why are we asking you to do this? The Google search landscape is not at all what it once was. Google is showing fewer standard blue links and more YouTube videos, social posts, forum pages, sponsored results, and, of course, AI Overviews \u2014 and these are all subject to change every time Google\u2019s algorithms reevaluate the web.<\/p>\n

When you do a search, you may indeed want to watch a video, poke around on discussion forums, or get a quick answer from AI, but sometimes you do just want to click on a link. Google itself admitted that it isn\u2019t done experimenting with new features<\/a>, and its algorithms will continue to shake up even blue links in search results. It remains to be seen how the company will keep serving its users\u2019 needs in these ways while maintaining a healthy internet ecosystem.<\/p>\n

These customization features, though, are a win. In a world where users have so little control over search results, Google allowing you to personalize your sources on its two major surfaces is an unexpected, but welcome, move. Google has also long stressed to SEO experts the importance of building a trustworthy, authoritative brand<\/a> to see success in search. Providing an option for readers to follow individual brands is a surprisingly direct application of that.<\/p>\n

We hope you choose to add us as a preferred source and follow us in Discover. Give us a shout if you do \u2014 we\u2019ll be very grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last year has brought some of the biggest changes to Google\u2019s search results pages that I have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,823,19,17,753,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-81428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}