com Your images are too small, or the aspect ratios are different than what we look for Your images arent inline i.

e., theyre clickable Your images may be too lowresolution Your images may be positioned too far from your article titles Your images may lack captionsThose are guidelines for all publishers though. This does not exactly solve the problem for big publishers Sterling mentions. If Flipper is only for big publishers, it could certainly go a long way to highlighting the big brands in Google News, should it ever become an actual feature and not just a lab. However, that would start a whole new argument or the same old one, depending on how you look at it from the smaller guys.