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paulirish / lite-youtube-embed

A faster youtube embed.
https://paulirish.github.io/lite-youtube-embed/
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Drop of Videos Indexed #137

Closed HunterJacobs closed 4 months ago

HunterJacobs commented 1 year ago

Probably the same issue as dwsmart but as I am implementing this I have noticed my videos are being de-indexed. image

headerbidding commented 1 year ago

I also noticed a de-indexing of videos on my site, but it started before I implemented lite-youtube-embed.

SagaciousBen commented 1 year ago

I have had a similar script running on my website for quite a few years. I have only just noticed that these pages don't register as 'video pages' on google search console. I only have one page on my site that does register as a video page and that's my sales page which has a full default youtube iframe embed.

Would you happen to know if your script shows that it is a video page? and if not would it be possible to look into whether there is a way to ad this signal without damaging pagespeed by loading a full embed?

So bizarre that google owns youtube google hates youtube embeds, and youtube refuses to develop efficient ones :/

paulirish commented 4 months ago

~Yeah this lite-youtube-embed is basically just an image and play button before it's clicked on. So.. Search Console isn't going to identify it as a video page.~

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paulirish commented 4 months ago

.... actually #105 has more discussion of this issue.. and a fix. and I just landed it

see https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed/issues/105#issuecomment-1975289541 for more.

FIXED.

HunterJacobs commented 4 months ago

@paulirish you're the best! image