[METHOD] Adding videos to blog articles to boost SEO, without adding videos

[razharov]

Hey everyone!

The title says for itself. As you all might know, having a video in an article helps for SEO, but at the same time It slows down loading, and also if its not your video, you are generating views for someone for free.

To avoid this, I created this schema verified code, that google recognises as a video, but if you put this code in to your website, no video will be shown anywhere.

  <div itemprop="video" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject">
 
    <meta itemprop="name" content="How to Make Homemade Potato Chips" />
    <meta itemprop="description" content="This video is about something." />
    <meta itemprop="uploadDate" content="2022-01-01T12:00:00+00:00" />
    <meta itemprop="duration" content="PT1M33S" />
    <meta itemprop="thumbnailUrl" content="XXXX-YOURVIDEOIMAGE-XXXX.jpg" />
    <meta itemprop="contentUrl" content="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw” />
  </div>

If you place this code into your site, and validate it with rich snippets, it will recognise your page as it has a video in it.

Can't tell if this actually works, but google is fooled with the code for sure, so by theory it should work.

 

[Hunter112]

You can increase them views that. Give away is to get back. Anyway, thanks for the idea

 

[razharov]

You can increase them views that.

I had a stroke reading this, can you please rephrase it? thanks

 

[HenryObi]

Hey everyone!

The title says for itself. As you all might know, having a video in an article helps for SEO, but at the same time It slows down loading, and also if its not your video, you are generating views for someone for free.

To avoid this, I created this schema verified code, that google recognises as a video, but if you put this code in to your website, no video will be shown anywhere.

  <div itemprop="video" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject">
 
    <meta itemprop="name" content="How to Make Homemade Potato Chips" />
    <meta itemprop="description" content="This video is about something." />
    <meta itemprop="uploadDate" content="2022-01-01T12:00:00+00:00" />
    <meta itemprop="duration" content="PT1M33S" />
    <meta itemprop="thumbnailUrl" content="XXXX-YOURVIDEOIMAGE-XXXX.jpg" />
    <meta itemprop="contentUrl" content="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw” />
  </div>

If you place this code into your site, and validate it with rich snippets, it will recognise your page as it has a video in it.

Can't tell if this actually works, but google is fooled with the code for sure, so by theory it should work.

This is a neat Blackhat trick assuming it does work.

I actually have a page where this might come in handy.

 

[fc-dh]

This will not help, because Google is not looking if you have videos, it is looking at how long someone stays on your site (aka dwelling time or bounce rate) that is why SEO people advise putting videos up because people will stay longer on your page...

This is useless imo.

 

[HenryObi]

This will not help, because Google is not looking if you have videos, it is looking at how long someone stays on your site (aka dwelling time or bounce rate) that is why SEO people advise putting videos up because people will stay longer on your page...

This is useless imo.

Is it not when people get to see your site that they would decide whether to stay long or not?

If having a video on your page could really increase your rank, then it makes sense to use this trick boost the rank then when you are there or close. You create a video and insert on the page.

 

[fc-dh]

Is it not when people get to see your site that they would decide whether to stay long or not?

If having a video on your page could really increase your rank, then it makes sense to use this trick boost the rank then when you are there or close. You create a video and insert on the page.

If you have good content, but i can tell (from my data) that my pages with real vids have a lower bounce or longer drilling time and that is a big ranking factor...

Go test it, I'll bet that it doesn't make a difference...

 

[HenryObi]

Go test it, I'll bet that it doesn't make a difference...

I would try it to see if it would work or not.

 

[asmxor]

it's work. But is better if you have channel on Youtube and uploads your own video

 

[V]

I had a stroke reading this, can you please rephrase it? thanks

The AI bot still needs some tweaking, I guess

 

[blackbeans]

I wonder if this might backfire in the future

 

[tazarbm]

This is a neat Blackhat trick assuming it does work.

I actually have a page where this might come in handy.

let us know whether that page ranks or tanks. I'm very curious

 

[Steptoe]

Adding video schema to pages was an old method of fast indexing. I don't think it will much if any effect nowadays.

 

[nhgjob]

I dont think this will do what you think it will.

The reason why video helps ranking is because it creates more time on page/engagement.

Not because you technically have a video on the page.