Crystal Carter posted an instance on Twitter of Google exhibiting a video thumbnail for a snippet of her web page however that web page didn’t really embed a video on the web page. So for those who go to the precise web page, there is no such thing as a video for a person to click on on to play.
To be truthful, there may be an OG video tag with the video within the supply code, however there is no such thing as a seen video on the web page that’s rendered to a person to play.
Here’s a screenshot of the snippet from yesterday:
So I suppose the lesson right here is that you need to make sure that to not embrace OG video tags when there is no such thing as a video on the web page. The lesson for Google is to make it possible for a visual video renders on the web page earlier than exhibiting a video snippet within the search outcomes?
To be truthful, this was a video particular search and Google does present touchdown pages that include video parts. However yea, no – there was no video for actual customers to see on the web page.
Crystal additionally did hyperlink to the YouTube video with the featured picture from the video – however once more, it isn’t playable on the web page.
And the worst half, I see the “uploaded by” reference, which I hate – hate a lot.
So is it the OG code or the video linked to from the web page?
Sure, precisely what I used to be nearly to tweet! I imagine that is as a result of open graph tag there for video. og:video which lists the YouTube video.
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) May 18, 2022
Yeah that is why I believed it was unusual, I wasn’t attempting for the video pos. I had a draft with the clip then eliminated it (therefore the tag).
Fascinating to see the impression of the og tag although!
— Crystal Carter (@CrystalontheWeb) May 18, 2022
There may be lots of enjoyable dialogue about this on the Twitter thread, so test it out there as properly.
Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.