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Noah
Noah
Jan 19, 2025, 11:08 AM
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Anne Berlin
Anne Berlin
Oct 28, 2024, 3:02 PM
Does anyone have clients with significant indexed video pages? I have 3 who all saw an eerily similar timeline for video pages not indexed due to "video not processed", with the largest surge on October 3. Wondering if this is a bug or an unannounced new video indexation enforcement.
Samuel Lavoie
Samuel Lavoie
Oct 28, 2024, 4:15 PM
No significant changes on my clients I'm monitoring :man-shrugging:
Jan-Willem Bobbink
Jan-Willem Bobbink
Oct 29, 2024, 5:08 AM
How are other statistics looking for pages without video's?
Anne Berlin
Anne Berlin
Oct 29, 2024, 7:24 AM
you're thinking this is a secondary symptom? maybe a more general rendering issue?
Jan-Willem Bobbink
Jan-Willem Bobbink
Oct 29, 2024, 10:14 AM
It could align with a general trend of Google just crawling more -> indexing more unique URLs -> deciding to not process videos more.
Wissam Dandan
Wissam Dandan
Oct 31, 2024, 10:01 AM
i have a client that started to have similar reaction and looks like starting in the same period ... any update you have @Anne Berlin ????
and would love if @John Mueller have any insights on those spikes ????
Wissam Dandan
Wissam Dandan
Oct 31, 2024, 10:03 AM
and are these video "premium gated" content Anne?
John Mueller
John Mueller
Oct 31, 2024, 10:48 AM
I have no idea, these are very generic charts ???? . video not processed sounds a lot like your video bytes are not accessible.
Wissam Dandan
Wissam Dandan
Oct 31, 2024, 11:31 AM
Thank you @John Mueller ❤️
Paulo Andraus
Paulo Andraus
Oct 31, 2024, 2:09 PM
I chuckled with "video not processed" and "video not processed _*yet*_"
(both on the rise, I think I know why)
John Mueller
John Mueller
Oct 31, 2024, 2:49 PM
The slightly more verbose texts for these are in
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.
Anne Berlin
Anne Berlin
Nov 1, 2024, 9:48 AM
The thing that stuck out to me was that the rate of this error grew at the same time for multiple domains. i wondered if it had to do with any changes in video byte rendering, or if it's just a coincidence.
@Wissam Dandan - no gated vids, all publically accessible.
Anne Berlin
Anne Berlin
Nov 1, 2024, 9:49 AM
I had already found those more detailed report definitions, but they both (video not processed, and video not processed yet) seem to suggest that this error would occur during the first time googlebot encountered the videos. but for these, the video pages had previously been indexed. so this seems to follow the pattern of indexed page being reevaluated for quality and then dumped back into crawled not indexed.
Wissam Dandan
Wissam Dandan
Nov 1, 2024, 9:50 AM
I would say so tbh .. there’s definitely a switch has been turned on of what Google things of those pages after and before that date … most of those watch pages are premium gated content and was wondering before why Google used to say it’s good to go even tho the “content url” its not visible to Google or users
Wissam Dandan
Wissam Dandan
Nov 1, 2024, 9:52 AM
If it’s true due to video bytes then I would check if Google is able to see those videos or we blockeing them someway
Wissam Dandan
Wissam Dandan
Nov 1, 2024, 9:52 AM
Especially if u guys use custom players
Anne Berlin
Anne Berlin
Nov 1, 2024, 9:53 AM
could be a intermittant issue with brightcove, yea. but when i run sample urls in rich results and in live url, video is detected and valid, and they are labeled as indexable. not sure how else to check whether google is having issues detecting the video codex
Wissam Dandan
Wissam Dandan
Nov 1, 2024, 9:56 AM
the rich results tool is just basically going through what we provide it from a markup perspective and not actually detecting the codex ..
Wissam Dandan
Wissam Dandan
Nov 1, 2024, 9:59 AM
we will try to implement to our pages and surface the info to google and see if that changes anything
and will keep you updated :saluting_face:
Anne Berlin
Anne Berlin
Nov 1, 2024, 10:05 AM
That's a fair point re: the rich results test. Moreso mentioned it to confirm that there's no errors with the video schema. But live url inspection shows video is detected
Anne Berlin
Anne Berlin
Nov 1, 2024, 10:07 AM
goodluck with paywall schema implementation! im going to try and solve for this and see if it helps
Wissam Dandan
Wissam Dandan
Nov 1, 2024, 10:09 AM
Hmmm that’s not a bad point … coz most of our videos are technically duplicate because they arelanguage localized (hreflang etc)… hmmmm aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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