Get the most out of your video content with the latest updates from Google. The search giant has added more specific reasons on why your videos may not be showing up in the Google search results to its video indexing report within Google Search Console.
“We are breaking down the “Google could not determine the prominent video on the page” reason into three more specific reasons,” Google wrote.
Here are the three new reasons that have been added:
1. Video outside the viewport: Reposition the video on the page so that the entire video is inside the renderable area of the page and seen when the page loads.
2. Video too small: Increase the height of the video so that it’s larger than 140px or the width of the video so that it’s larger than 140px and at least a third of the page’s width.
3. Video too tall: Decrease the height of the video so that it’s smaller than 1080px.
According to Google, it can take up to three months for the historical data to flush out before these new error reasons appear. So, if you don’t see them yet or you see the old “Google could not determine the prominent video on the page” issue being reported, that is normal.
But why should you care? Well, if you have video content on your site and have seen the “Google could not determine the prominent video on the page” error, these new details provide more actionable advice on how to fix the issue and help get your videos showing up in Google Search.
We want to thank thought leader Barry Schwartz as the source for this content and such awesome teachings on the subject and we hope that this article can help you and your business! Here’s the link to his post https://searchengineland.com/google-search-console-video-indexing-report-gets-three-new-issue-details-428119.
