Video Marketing in 2019 by Verti Group International a.k.a. SEO Seattle®

Video Marketing in 2019 by Verti Group International a.k.a. SEO Seattle®

Is your business using video in its SEO or marketing strategy? If not using video, you’re soon to be in the minority. And it’s something you should consider changing immediately. That’s because video has been blowing up in recent years and that trends only looks set to continue in 2019 and beyond. It can be a … Read more

Google Image & Video Search Test Blurring Explicit Content, Instead Of Removing It

Google Image & Video Search Test Blurring Explicit Content, Instead Of Removing It

Google Image Search and Google Video Search has historically simply removed content from its search results when you ask it to filter explicit content using SafeSearch. Now it seems Google is blurring out content, like they do in social media, asking you to click to reveal the image if you want to see it. I … Read more

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Reviews Update Done, Page Experience, Site Name Fixes, Google Texting Businesses & Google / Microsoft Ad Revenues

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Reviews Update Done, Page Experience, Site Name Fixes, Google Texting Businesses & Google / Microsoft Ad Revenues

This week, we had the Google April 2023 reviews update finish rolling out after 13 days. That update was pretty heated toward the last week of the rollout. Google clarified that page experience is a ranking signal but not a ranking system. Google asked you to submit issues with Site names in the search results … Read more

Google’s Video Thumbnail Apocalypse Is Causing A Hug Drop In Video Snippets In The Search Results (But Traffic Might Be Stable)

Google’s Video Thumbnail Apocalypse Is Causing A Hug Drop In Video Snippets In The Search Results (But Traffic Might Be Stable)

On April 13, Google announced a change to how video thumbnails would be presented in the search results. Until now, a listing could receive a video thumbnail even when that video content was not the main content on the page. Although that was a nice benefit for the sites receiving the video thumbnail, it was … Read more

Search News Buzz Video Recap: New Google Search Engine, Magi, April Reviews Update, Page Experience, Helpful Content, FAQs & Generative AI Ads

Search News Buzz Video Recap: New Google Search Engine, Magi, April Reviews Update, Page Experience, Helpful Content, FAQs & Generative AI Ads

What a busy week, we had Google confirm it is working on an all-new search engine that uses AI and Bard. There is no ETA for when that will go live, but in the coming months, we will see more minor updates to Google Search to embed AI throughout; this is code-named Magi. Google’s April … Read more

Google Search Console New Video Indexing Report Inline Data URLs Issue

Google Search Console New Video Indexing Report Inline Data URLs Issue

Google will now report inline data URLs that are used as video URLs as “Invalid video URL” in the video indexing report within Google Search Console. This may lead to a reassignment of the “Invalid video URL” issue to the new issue but the total number of affected videos should not change. Google posted this … Read more

How to convert video to text — Serpstat Blog

How to convert video to text — Serpstat Blog

Anna KravetsTechnical Support Manager Serpstat Video-to-text transcription helps SEO promotion of the website: it improves the indexing of the submitted information, and the user perceives the content in a convenient way. We’ve made a selection of tools for fast and high-quality video-to-text transcription. Not every user visiting your site can watch a video right here … Read more

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Reviews Update, Google Core Update’s Local Search Impact, Webspam Report, Generative AI Coming To Google Search, Bard Updates & Bing Chat Plugins

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Reviews Update, Google Core Update’s Local Search Impact, Webspam Report, Generative AI Coming To Google Search, Bard Updates & Bing Chat Plugins

This week in search, we covered the new April 2023 reviews update that goes beyond just product reviews. We also covered the possible impact the Google March 2023 broad core update had on local search. Google’s John Mueller said they don’t launch algorithm updates and say they got everything wrong. Google released its web spam … Read more

Google Removes Video Thumbnails In Search Results When Video Is Not Main Content

Google Removes Video Thumbnails In Search Results When Video Is Not Main Content

Google announced it will remove the video thumbnail image from the search results snippet when that video is not the main content of the page. Google said this change will impact search appearance reported metrics for videos in the performance report in Google Search Console. Here is the change: Google said the “video thumbnails only … Read more

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