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<\/p>\nThursday, April 13, 2023<\/p>\n
\n Today, we’re making a change so that video thumbnails only appear next to Google search results when the video is the main content of a page.
\n This will make it easier for users to understand what to expect when they visit a page.\n<\/p>\n
\n Previously, we showed video thumbnails in two different ways.
\n For pages where the video was the main content of the page, it appeared at the beginning of a listing:\n<\/p>\n
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\n This remains unchanged. The other format was for when a video was present on a page but not the main element of a page.
\n In that case, the thumbnail appeared after a listing:\n<\/p>\n
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\n This second format is going away. In experiments, this change has had minimal impact on overall engagement for publishers.\n<\/p>\n
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\n This change will impact search appearance reported metrics for videos in the performance report<\/a> in Search Console. \n To learn more about video indexing best practices, check out the video best practices guide<\/a>.
\n There will be annotations in the video indexing report<\/a> and the video enhancements report<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n
\n For questions, feel free to post in our Search Central help community<\/a>, where you can join a discussion with like-minded experts.\n<\/p>\n