Maciej Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Hello, Since December 5, there is a new algorithm for indexing video files. Have any of you noticed problems in Google Search Console using KVS that the number of videos indexed has decreased? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Support Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Yes, we see the same issue on kvs-demo.com. Part of video pages are indicated that "video is not the main content". Which is strange, because design is same for all video pages and there are no differences. For now we don't know any solution for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maciej Posted December 26, 2023 Author Share Posted December 26, 2023 Yeah, problem is big , google make a lot of change of this, but I see a lot from KVS sites are working. With this change :) My competition of course :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egg Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 Virtually all my videos have been de-indexed using default KVS theme... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Support Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 KVS demo still has around 50% videos indexed: Not sure what Google does like, here is Google's screenshot of one of the video page that got de-indexed: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Support Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 We have switched off related videos on our demo site, as per your suggestion, so now we will have to wait. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maciej Posted December 28, 2023 Author Share Posted December 28, 2023 Please, help me, I would like to make the same, but I. need your help :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Does KVS conform to all of this for videos? https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Support Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 8 hours ago, Jim said: Does KVS conform to all of this for videos? Yes, except for this: Quote Use stable URLs for video and thumbnail files However this was never the problem before. KVS is whitelisting Google bot IPs and MSN bot IPs when serving video files. If you want to show the same video URL for all videos, you can switch off hotlink protection in Settings -> Content settings -> Hotlink protection type option (set to By referrer). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egg Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 On 12/28/2023 at 11:21 AM, Tech Support said: We have switched off related videos on our demo site, as per your suggestion, so now we will have to wait. any updates on this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Support Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Switching off related videos didn't help, switching off aside advertising didn't help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egg Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Found this interesting post https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/252395207?authuser=1&hl=en 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 (edited) Are the video sitemap best practices and example also followed? https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/video-sitemaps Edited January 13 by Jim typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Support Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 19 hours ago, Egg said: Found this interesting post https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/252395207?authuser=1&hl=en That's interesting. We changed URLs from /videos/ to /video/ on demo site and also added a "Video" word at the end of title: https://www.kvs-demo.com/video/219/kylie-minogue-all-the-lovers/ 14 hours ago, Jim said: Are the video sitemap best practices and example also followed? https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/video-sitemaps Yes, should be all supported for a very long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Is this also relevant? https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Support Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 6 hours ago, Jim said: Is this also relevant? https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/video This is also used by default in KVS theme. If any of the recommendations were not used, Google would not index videos at all. The new issue comes when Google introduced new AI that is deciding on whether the video is main content on the page or not. Now everyone is trying to guess what will force this AI to consider video as a main content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Support Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Some positive news. We got effect after renaming video URL pattern to contain "video" instead of "videos" and adding "Video" word after every video title in H1 tag. Looks like this tricks Google AI to believe that this is a main video content: What are the steps: 1) In ./htaccess file in your www root directory (can be edited via FTP or server File Manager) locate these 2 lines going together: RewriteRule ^videos/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)/$ view_video.php?id=$1&dir=$2 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^videos/([^/]+)/$ view_video.php?dir=$1 [L,QSA] and change ^videos/ to ^video/ in URL pattern (beginning of the line): RewriteRule ^video/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)/$ view_video.php?id=$1&dir=$2 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^video/([^/]+)/$ view_video.php?dir=$1 [L,QSA] If you don't have these lines, likely your theme is customized to use some other video page URLs, this guide provides only information about default KVS theme URL pattern. Also in the upper section of this same file named "# seo redirect rules" add these lines to redirect old video URLs to new: RewriteRule ^videos/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)/$ /video/$1/$2/ [R=301,L,QSA] RewriteRule ^videos/([^/]+)/$ /video/$1/ [R=301,L,QSA] 2) In KVS admin panel go to Settings -> Website settings and modify Video page URL pattern to "video" instead of "videos". Now all your video pages should be using the new URL pattern. This was done based on this info and it looks to align with their findings: On 1/13/2024 at 5:29 PM, Egg said: Found this interesting post https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/252395207?authuser=1&hl=en 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egg Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Thanks! I will just do step 1 for now and report back 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbarnetworks Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Did the same will report back with the info. I will say though adding * video after the title is extremely ugly XD so I hope it works without 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Support Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 It became even better with new iteration: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egg Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Results by only applying step 1. Naturally there are quite a few videos with 'video' in the middle or end of the title and/or description. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTFM Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Yep it works, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I applied step 1 yesterday, hopefully there will be a similar improvement at the next update. Egg - is that really over 1k videos indexed in a single update? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naughtyking Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 21 hours ago, Egg said: Results by only applying step 1. Naturally there are quite a few videos with 'video' in the middle or end of the title and/or description. did you do the step 2 ? 2) In KVS admin panel go to Settings -> Website settings and modify Video page URL pattern to "video" instead of "videos". Now all your video pages should be using the new URL pattern. or just you did the step 1? i now did just step 1 and step 2 and i will report back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Support Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 22 minutes ago, naughtyking said: or just you did the step 1? Step 2 should be done as well, otherwise URLs will not be changed. I guess he was trying to say he didn't add "Video" to the H1, which is step #3 in this guide: Quote 3) In KVS admin panel go to Website UI -> Pages -> Video View block under View Video page and in template code modify this line: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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