02/16/2026
Google wrote that the update will improve Discover as follows:
🌀 Showing users more locally relevant content from websites based in their country
🌀 Reducing sensational content and clickbait in Discover
🌀 Showing more in-depth, original, and timely content from websites with expertise in a given area, based on our systems’ understanding of a site’s content
🌟 Here’s what you can do (per Google).🌟
“To increase the likelihood of your content appearing in Discover, we recommend the following”:
✅ Avoid clickbait and similar tactics to artificially inflate engagement by using misleading or exaggerated details in preview content (title, snippets, or images) to increase appeal, or by withholding crucial information required to understand what the content is about.
✅ Use page titles and headlines that capture the essence of the content.
✅ Avoid sensationalism tactics that manipulate appeal by catering to morbid curiosity, titillation, or outrage.
✅ Provide content that’s timely for current interests, tells a story well, or provides unique insights.
✅ Include compelling, high-quality images in your content, especially large images that are more likely to generate visits from Discover. Large images need to be at least 1200 px wide.
✅ Provide an overall great page experience.
In other words—Google is going to stop recommending your website if it’s full of clickbait and AI-regurgitated content. So write legit stuff (by humans, for humans).
They’re what really matter anyway, and they want to know YOU. 🩷
➡️ Vote in the poll—do you think this was a good update, or not?
