Yesterday, Google sent out a bunch of notifications via Google Search Console to let some publishers know that they are missing out on Google Discover traffic. Google has sent out notifications from Search Console for Google Discover before but this time this notice says that you are missing out on potential Google Discover traffic.

Specifically, it is recommending these publishers use the max-image-preview robots meta tag setting to feed Google larger images so it can be used in Google Discover.

Both Eli Schwartz and Glenn Gabe shared screen shots with me on Twitter. The emails say “make your content more visually engaging on Discover.” It then says:

You can learn more about that robots meta tag over here.

Forum discussion at Twitter.