XF 2.3 Is there a way to put a thread prefix in the URL slug?

[Mike Fara]

I have isolated places where videos are embedded on the first post of certain threads and pre-fixed them as "VIDEO". This is sufficient enough that VIDEO will appear in the title of the thread, but for the actual URL slug/URL itself, video is not present. Google's algorithm apparently requires video to be in the URL itself to index that type of content as a "VIDEO" result. Any suggestions?

 

[Mr Lucky]

Google's algorithm apparently requires video to be in the URL itself to index that type of content as a "VIDEO" result

I don’t think they do, where did you read that?

EDIT: Google only needs the video structured data and correct embedding etc. to index the content as video.

 

[ENF]

I don’t think they do, where did you read that?

Have to ask the same question. There's no requirement in the indexing criteria for video content where 'VIDEO' needs to be present in the URL.

Source [See Video Indexing Requirements]

 

[briansol]

Is the video unique? if google detects it as existing elsewhere, it likely won't index it as non-canonical.

None of my video-threads are indexed due to video not being the main content of the page. This may be something to look into further in the future if you have a video site -- the main xf layout might not be ideal. EG, article thread types exist -- we may need a video thread type to prioritize video content. i'm going to suggest that now.

 

[Mike Fara]

Something on StackOverflow. The specific message I'm getting is... "Video is not the main content of the page"

Affected pages
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In many cases, the video and, now, a description of the video, is literally like the only thing on the page (besides the page container, breadcrumb, etc)

 

[briansol]

yup. suggested: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/video-thread-type.225297/