Release announcements should show up in Google over release notes

Yes, I'm observing the same. Basic comments:

• As long as the announcement link to the release notes and not back, we are basically already saying that the release notes are most important.
• If we want an X.Y announcement to be listed before X.Y.0 to X.Y.N release notes, we need the release notes to link to the X.Y announcement.

Not sure we can do that much SEO - headings seems to be a propriate at least. And the pages are just different - short versus a wall of text.

A side note: Should we create an URL alias https://www.drupal.org/blog/drupal-latest → that always links to the announcement for the latest release? Just like we have https://www.drupal.org/latest-release → / https://www.drupal.org/download-latest/zip →

I'm not seeing anything in the meta tags of https://www.drupal.org/blog/drupal-10-2-0 → that can be improved. We certainly can change the metatag configuration if there is something specific that can be improved.

We have limited ability to influence what Google decides to show.

What I think might help is more links to the announcement. Linking from the release notes to the blog announcement would increase its visibility and may convince Google to highlight it more. The core release notes template could be updated to mention the announcement.