Back in July Google fixed a bug with recipe rich results but that bug may be resurfacing according to Lisa Bryan, a food blogger. She said starting around October 15th her site, and others, started to see the images of their recipes disappear from Google's search results. Forcing a new crawl fixes the issue temporarily and then it may disappear again.
Here is a screenshot of her site not showing the image:
She said on Twitter "It seems there's another recipe rich snippet bug. Images aren't showing in results (on numerous of my recipes). And I don't show in the recipe carousel (on a top ranked result) no matter how many times you click "show more." This started Oct 15 and got worse throughout the week. Impressions/rankings initially stayed the same, traffic plummeted without the images, now rankings are decreasing. And for Guacamole, the carousel says Carne Asada Fries."
Here are some screen shots:
It seems there's another recipe rich snippet bug. Images aren't showing in results (on numerous of my recipes). And I don't show in the recipe carousel (on a top ranked result) no matter how many times you click "show more." @dannysullivan @JohnMu @googlewmc @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/8ghzs3n3Nm
— Lisa Bryan (@Downshiftology) October 20, 2019
Yes. I learned in the last couple days if I requested re-indexing through GSC my image popped back within 20 min. So I re-indexed dozens of my top posts. I recouped some traffic. BUT, as of this morning several of the images that returned for two days are now gone again.
— Lisa Bryan (@Downshiftology) October 23, 2019
For example, my guacamole. You can see the time stamp on this video from this morning. I got the image back Mon, yet it’s gone again this morning. pic.twitter.com/lJfakL319D
— Lisa Bryan (@Downshiftology) October 23, 2019
I re-indexed (again) this morning and within minutes my image shows and I’m in the recipe carousel. But many of the recipes I re-indexed Monday already have lost snippets again. It’s not staying. And it’s like playing whack-a-mole right now to recoup my traffic losses. pic.twitter.com/7zgAnXIznh
— Lisa Bryan (@Downshiftology) October 23, 2019
Here is another complaint on this:
Is there an issue with SERP snippets right now? Seeing inconsistencies with recipes especially. Could this be due to the new Robots snippet controls being rolled out this month? @JohnMu @methode
— Jeff Hawley (@hashtagjeff) October 22, 2019
Do you see a similar issue with your recipe markup?
Forum discussion at Twitter.
