New Video Page Indexing Report Coming To Google Debugging Your Video Indexing Issues To Be Much Easier

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A new video page indexing report is coming to Google Search Console, Google announced at Google I/O.

You will now be able to see a report which lists all the video pages found by Google when crawling and indexing your site. The report will be in the index section, under ‘video pages’.

Currently, Google Search Console only reports on videos with regard to structured data. If you upload videos to your site and mark them up with structured data, Search Contoroles lets you check if the data is valid and how many impressions a video received.

You will soon be able to check the indexing status of videos and the landing pages they appear on using Search Console.

Video Page Indexing Report

With the help of this new feature you will be able to:

Find out how many video landing pages Google found and how many videos it indexed;
Investigate and see if any videos weren’t indexed and why;
Use the URLs of the affected video landing pages to resolve problems and validate the fix before initiating re-crawling the URLs that were affected.

Why Is This Important?

With video content becoming more and more popular and valuable, it’s crucial to keep track of its progress. This report will help you discover how important your videos are to Google Search. The indexing reports will help you find indexing issues and help you resolve them.

However, you should keep in mind that regardless of how many videos are on a page, Google only indexes one video per page.

Take a look at the discussion on Twitter.

Google Search Console to release new video page indexing reporthttps://t.co/6k2AZcDobj via Google I/O @johnmu and @diklla pic.twitter.com/qwplE0Bdr1
— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) May 12, 2022

Update from the future: Google launched the new Video Indexing report in July 2022. Read more about it here and find out how it can help you get better SEO results!

Tags - In The News, SEO, google search, seo, Video Indexing

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So what happened?

A fire happened, according to Search Engine Land. Apparently, there was a fire at a Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, resulting in injuries to some workers and Google Search issues. Google is aware of what happened and John Mueller even tweeted how things should go back to normal after restoration.

I’d keep an eye on it today, and please let me know if it doesn’t look like the main URLs are settling down again. (We don’t index everything, so I’d focus on the important URLs for things like this.)
— 🥔 johnmu of switzerland (personal) 🥔 (@JohnMu) August 9, 2022

So what does that mean?

It means that – if you notice any ranking changes or anything out of the ordinary this could be the reason behind it. The biggest things will go back to their previous state, but it’s hard to predict how long it will take for everything to go back to what it was before the fire.

The issues

Barry Schwartz shared some screenshots on the Search Engine Roundtable. He reports seeing more issues regarding search quality, including:

Outages and inaccessibility of Google Search
Old pages dropping out of Google Search
New pages not being indexed by Google Search
Google Search results look stale and outdated
Huge ranking fluctuations

Google is back up now, according to Downdetector.com. At the peak of the outage, over 30,000 US users reported issues with Google. Now, there are about 500 incidents reported.