{"id":25305,"date":"2023-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/video-mode-now-only-shows-pages-where-video-is-the-main-content\/"},"modified":"2023-12-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T00:00:00","slug":"video-mode-now-only-shows-pages-where-video-is-the-main-content","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/video-mode-now-only-shows-pages-where-video-is-the-main-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Video mode now only shows pages where video is the main content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gargardate\">Monday, December 4, 2023<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/simplifying-video-presentation-on-google-search-results\/\">Earlier this year<\/a>, we made a change to only<br \/>\n  show video thumbnails next to results on the main Google Search results page when the video is<br \/>\n  the main content of a page. Today, we&#8217;re extending this change to search results in Video mode to<br \/>\n  better connect users with the video content they&#8217;re looking for (rather than having to comb<br \/>\n  through a page to find that video). This change will start rolling out today, and it could take<br \/>\n  up to a week to complete.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-2189ee8f9725.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Video mode in Google Search results\" title=\"Video mode in Google Search results\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  With this update, clicking a result in Video mode will only take users to a page where the video<br \/>\n  is the main content. Here&#8217;s an example of a page where the video is the main content of the page:<br \/>\n  the video is above the fold, it&#8217;s prominent, and the main purpose of the page is to watch that<br \/>\n  video.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-0048b37673aa.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" alt=\"a web page where the video is the main content on the page\" title=\"A web page where the video is the main content on the page\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Here are some examples of page types where the video is supplementary to the textual content, and<br \/>\n  not the primary focus of the page:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A blog post where the video is complementary to the text rather than the primary content of<br \/>\n    the page<\/li>\n<li>A product details page with a complementary video<\/li>\n<li>A video category page that lists multiple videos of equal prominence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  As the update rolls out, you&#8217;ll see the impact of this change in your Search Console<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/9495631\" class=\"external-link\">video indexing report<\/a>.<br \/>\n  Videos that aren&#8217;t the main content of the page will appear as &#8220;No video indexed&#8221; in Search<br \/>\n  Console. We&#8217;re also adding a new reason to the report to explain why these videos are not indexed:<br \/>\n  &#8220;Video is not the main content of the page&#8221;, which simplifies the report by replacing the<br \/>\n  following issues:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Invalid video URL<\/li>\n<li>Unsupported video format<\/li>\n<li>Unknown video format<\/li>\n<li>Inline data URLs cannot be used for video URLs<\/li>\n<li>Video outside the viewport<\/li>\n<li>Video too small<\/li>\n<li>Video too tall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-fb3dd40d7353.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Video indexing report in Search Console, with a callout for the new issue: Video is not the main content of the page\" alt=\"Video indexing report in Search Console\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Since these videos will no longer be shown in Video mode, you can expect to see a decrease in<br \/>\n  the number of pages with indexed videos. This decrease will also appear in the number of video<br \/>\n  impressions in the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/7576553\" class=\"external-link\">performance report<\/a>,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/9495631\" class=\"external-link\">video indexing report<\/a>, and<br \/>\n  the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/7552505\" class=\"external-link\">video rich results report<\/a><br \/>\n  in Search Console.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  To learn more about video indexing best practices, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/video-search\/\">video best practices guide<\/a>.<br \/>\n  For questions, feel free to post in our <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gle\/sc-forum\" class=\"external-link\">Search Central help community<\/a>,<br \/>\n  where you can join a discussion with like-minded experts.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/blog\/authors\/cory-benavente\">Cory Benavente<\/a>,<br \/>\n  Product Manager, Google Search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, December 4, 2023 Earlier this year, we made a change to only show video thumbnails next to results on the main Google Search results page when the video is the main content of a page. 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