Video thread type

[briansol]

Much like we have Q&A, Article, Discussion thread types, a Video thread type would help sites/threads rank where the main content being posted is a video.

Google does not like to rank attached videos as video threads. All my threads with videos attached show up under:








Suggestion: Incorporate a Video thread type option which puts the video as the key content, improves page meta data / json-ld for video indexing, and treats the 'thread' portion of it as video comments.

= [ ] VIDEO




Related thread: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/media-thread-type.222335/

 

[Mr Lucky]

Google does not like to rank attached videos as video threads.

I have pages where the video is the only content, video structured data validates perfectly but Google still says video isn't the main cont

 

[briansol]

Yeah, the entire template needs to change to be more video-like (eg, youtube layout).


Additionally, I keep seeing .com/styles/default/xenforo/add_to_home.mp4 show up. I think this is for the PWA helper to install it. It seems to have this blurb of text on every page load. Should be removed and dom-added on-click or something to get it out of the way.

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[Mike Fara]

Same issued faced here (linked for relevance): https://xenforo.com/community/threads/is-there-a-way-to-put-a-thread-prefix-in-the-url-slug.225274/

Wonder what the possible workaround may be. I have a way in Python to find youtube media embeds, but no way to put VIDEO in the URL, just a thread prefix for VIDEO. Hmm...

 

[Mr Lucky]

Wonder what the possible workaround may be. I have a way in Python to find youtube media embeds, but no way to put VIDEO in the URL, just a thread prefix for VIDEO. Hmm...

But is there even any need for that?

 

[Mike Fara]

But is there even any need for that?

I don't have the original stackoverflow thread but someone was insisting that it was the case, and that its just the way the algorithm rolls. I haven't been able to independently verify that either.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I don't have the original stackoverflow thread but someone was insisting that it was the case,

Well they were wrong IMO.

 

[Mike Fara]

Well they were wrong IMO.

Do you have additional data that shows how to solve the issue?

 

[Mr Lucky]

Do you have additional data that shows how to solve the issue?

Nothing additional to the info given out by Google themselves, e.g.:

Video indexing report - Search Console Help

The video indexing report shows how many videos on your site are eligible for video features on Google Search, and provides reasons why other videos on your site couldn't be indexed.

support.google.com

 

[Mike Fara]

Nothing additional to the info given out by Google themselves, e.g.:

Video indexing report - Search Console Help

The video indexing report shows how many videos on your site are eligible for video features on Google Search, and provides reasons why other videos on your site couldn't be indexed.

support.google.com

Were you able to alter or include meta data that would change Google's analysis of your forum pages with embedded media on it as the first post of a thread?

 

[Digital Doctor]

would a video thread type lower sales of Media Gallery ?

 

[Alpha1]

Such thread type would rival media content type. Another idea is to allow other content types (like media) to be in a forum node. I.e. convert a thread to xfmg media but keep it in the forum node.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Were you able to alter or include meta data that would change Google's analysis of your forum pages with embedded media on it as the first post of a thread?

No, I was talking about web pages in general, not forum pages.