Google has dropped the playable podcast search result rich snippets. 9to5Google reported this first, and there is a bit of confusion around what exactly Google removed. Google seems to have removed the recent episodes’ playable rich results for podcasts, where Google would show the recent podcasts under a specific search result.
The podcast rich results launched in 2017, I have some screenshots here but this image from 9to5Google shows the before and after in a clear and concise manner:
Here is another version I screen captured from 2019,
Before:
And now it is gone but it has the carousel:
Here is some of the SEO chatter on this change:
WOW! OK – then the sudden removal and then insertion of the episodes carousel was not a bug or a hiccup but was part of the removal process! I’m floored.
— Mordy Oberstein 🇺🇦 (@MordyOberstein) January 18, 2023
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This is what was removed. I still need to dig in more to see the changes across podcast searches, though. pic.twitter.com/Vfi0ivJOSC
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) January 18, 2023
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Google Podcasts has disappeared from Search results as it goes on life support https://t.co/vq6McXYs2J via @NexusBen cc @glenngabe @MordyOberstein
— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) January 18, 2023
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