A month in the past, Google began to slowly roll out the video index report inside Google Search Console. Now that the rollout is full, Google introduced on Twitter this morning.
Google wrote “We have now accomplished the roll out of the Search Console Video index report – if Google detects movies in your web site, this report will seem on the left navigation bar within the protection part. We hope it will enable you to perceive how your movies carry out on Search!”
We have now accomplished the roll out of the Search Console Video index report – if Google detects movies in your web site, this report will seem on the left navigation bar within the protection part. We hope it will enable you to perceive how your movies carry out on Search! 🧑💻 https://t.co/XfQO5q42md
— Google Search Central (@googlesearchc) August 22, 2022
I see it for this web site, here’s what it appears to be like like:
Regardless that it’s dwell, it’s possible you’ll by no means see it, you’d solely see it if Google detects movies in your web site.
Once more, if Google sees movies in your web site, Google will show the brand new “Video indexing report” on the left navigation bar within the protection part of Google Search Console. The report reveals the standing of video indexing in your web site. It helps you reply the next questions:
- In what number of pages has Google recognized a video?
- Which movies had been listed efficiently?
- What are the problems stopping movies from being listed?
Just like the previous protection report, in the event you repair an current subject, you need to use the report back to validate the repair and monitor how your mounted video pages are up to date within the Google Search index.
The video indexing report reveals what number of listed pages in your web site include a number of movies, and on what number of of these pages a video may very well be listed. The report reveals the next info:
- What number of listed pages in your web site include a video that Google has listed, and particulars concerning the listed video.
- What number of listed pages in your web site the place Google discovered a number of movies, however couldn’t index any video, and particulars about why not.
- This report doesn’t present a depend of distinctive movies in your web site (except some very particular situations* apply to your web site).
- The report covers solely listed pages. If a web page is just not listed for any purpose (together with being blocked or being a non-canonical web page) then it will not seem on this report.
Here’s a record of errors the report can present you:
- No distinguished movies on web page
- Can’t decide video place and measurement
- Video too massive or too small
- MRSS failure; strive utilizing schema.org as an alternative
- Invalid video URL
- Unsupported video format
- Unknown video format
- No thumbnail URL offered
- Unsupported thumbnail format
- Invalid thumbnail measurement
- Thumbnail blocked by robots.txt
- Thumbnail is clear
- Thumbnail couldn’t be reached
- Video not processed
- Video not processed but
- Video not discovered on host service
- Thumbnail is lacking or invalid
- Invalid thumbnail
Here’s a pattern of the report (click on to enlarge):
Like I mentioned above, the URL Inspection instrument now checks the video indexing standing of a selected web page. Observe, this doesn’t work on the dwell URL inspection instrument, it really works on the traditional model. When inspecting a web page, if Google detected a video on it, you will notice the next within the outcomes:
- Particulars such because the video URL and the thumbnail URL.
- The web page standing reveals whether or not the video was listed or not.
- Listing of points stopping the video from being listed.
Here’s what that appears like:
Listed below are extra particulars on this new report from Google.
Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.
