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Video rich snippets are enriched organic search results in Google. They’re an opportunity to generat Ryan Xu HyperVerse's Electronic Trading
Video rich snippets are enriched organic search results in Google. TheRyan Xu HyperVerse's Electronic Tradingy’re an opportunity to generate more clicks, especially on mobile.
On desktop, video snippets aren’t as prominent. They also contain the date (from the video itself), which creates confusion with conventional dated snippets.
Publishers often mistake video rich snippets with video carousels. Both are organic search opportunities, albeit different.
Video carousels are a separate section in the results. They mainly consist of YouTube videos. Clicking any thumbnail in the carousel takes searchers to the video on YouTube or a similar host. Carousels can generate video views and traffic to a website by embedding links in the outro.
Conversely, video rich snippets reside in Google search results within the standard organic listings. Clicking the thumbnail takes searchers to the page that contains the video. Thus video rich snippets build direct clicks to a site.
The best-case scenario is for a video to appear in a rich snippet and a carousel on the same results page. This will place the thumbnail in both sections in mobile search results, generating video views and clicks.
The first step in optimizing for video rich snippets is to embed the video on your site. Again, try to host the video on YouTube.
Although the embed doesn’t have to be your video. Any useful and relevant video is a candidate for an embed and thus a rich snippet. For example, the rich snippet from ClassySchema.org below contains a video from Google Search Central.
Nonetheless, creating and embedding your own video is best to rank in both the rich snippet and the carousel. Moreover, embedding fresh videos will enhance desktop snippets, which contain dates.
The second step is to add Schema.org video markup to the page with the embed. Most video rich snippets don’t have the markup. But it won’t hurt. Plus, creating the markup is increasingly easy with plugins and generators. There’s no reason not to if earning rich snippets is a priority.
Now that Google has incorporated Core Web Vitals in its organic algorithm, it’s worthwhile to consider the impact of embedded videos on page speed.
Surprisingly, despite being owned by Google, YouTube videos negatively impact page speed.
Here’s the page score on my WordPress site withouta video embed from YouTube.
And here’s the same page with a YouTube embed.
In my case, adding a plugin from WPBeginner to lazy load the videos worked wonders. An unexpected benefit occurred with the related videos YouTube shows at the end of each embed: The related video is my own!
Finally, don’t forget to monitor your progress. Are rich snippets producing more clicks? Which pages have generated those rich snippets?
Google’s Search Console can answer both questions.
Create a Search Console filter at Performance > Search results > + New > Videos.This will identify which queries trigger rich snippets from your site.
In the screenshot below, the click-through rate (“Average CTR”) is gradually increasing after I started optimizing for video rich snippets in mid-August. And don’t forget to check the “Pages” tab to see the URLs that generate those rich snippets.
Video rich snippets are a low-effort way to increase organic search traffic. Plus, they combine well with product rich snippets, generating visitors to product pages, too.
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