Rich Result SERP Feature

Featured Videos SERP Feature

A complete guide for implimenting the Featured Videos SERP feature.

What are Featured Video SERP features?

Featured Video features are considered upgrades to the traditional blue link in the SERP.

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Potential benefits

  • Rise in search rankings
  • Build brand recognition
  • Increase click-through-rate

Implement schema markup

Website owners, marketers and SEO professionals can greatly increase their chances of getting a rich results for their webpages by implimenting schema markup.

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We created a schema markup generator specificaly designed for triggering rich results. Try it!

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  • Video Thumbnails
  • Video Titles
  • Video Descriptions
  • Source or Provider Information
  • Play Button
  • Duration
  • Content Creators and YouTubers
  • Streaming Services
  • News Outlets
  • Entertainment Industry
  • Educational Websites
  • E-commerce Businesses
  • Travel and Tourism
  • Food and Recipe Blogs
  • Technology and Gadgets
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The SERP feature is only shown on desktop devices.

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The Featured Video SERP feature is only shown on mobile devices.

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More tips on getting

  • 1.

    The foundation of appearing in featured video results is creating high-quality video content. Invest in good equipment, audio quality, and video production to make your videos engaging and visually appealing.

  • 2.

    Craft descriptive, keyword-rich titles and descriptions for your videos. Use relevant keywords that users are likely to search for to improve your video's chances of ranking well in search results.

  • 3.

    Choose eye-catching and relevant video thumbnails. Thumbnails play a crucial role in attracting users' attention. Make sure your thumbnails are clear, relevant to the video content, and reflective of the video's topic.

  • 4.

    Use video structured data markup (schema markup) to provide search engines with additional information about your video, including its duration, description, upload date, and more. This can improve the chances of your video being featured as a rich result.

  • 5.

    Include accurate transcriptions and closed captions in your videos. This not only improves accessibility but also makes your video content more indexable by search engines. Search engines can better understand the video's content when transcriptions are available.

schema generator

Getting the SERP feature depends on several factors. The #1 best action you can take is to leverage the schema generator.

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JavaScript framework

The schema generator is run on a simple JavaScript framework that converts basic/consolidated information into a more extensive, feature-rich and validated JSON-based schema snippet. If you understand code, feel free to utilize this. If you're unfamiliar with how to utilize this, but work with a developer, email them this code snippet.

Features

Benefits

  • Consolidate & simplify input fields
  • Label & link entities by relationships
  • More detailed & cleaner code
  • Automatic smart validation
  • Prioritize specific, yet capture relevant values

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Validation

The utilization of this JavaScript/JSON-LD framework is dependent upon a specific input data structure.

This is the actual code framework that utilizes the custom data structure.

This is the resulted JSON that the framework produces.

This is an example of Google validating the output with their rich results test.

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More on schema markup

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Official Schema docs

Schema.org is the official home for schema markup. All other schema-related resources and tools (including Google's structured data documentation) are built on top of it. This resource outlines how to construct and utilize for all markup types, "" included. The links below are go to the schema.org homepage, and the official "" schema page.

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Official Google docs

Google looks for only specific schema.org itemtypes when implimenting advanced SERP features for webpages. The links below go to Google's main structured data page, and what they look for when considering a webpage for the "Featured Video" SERP feature.

NOTE: Google looks for utiliziation the official schema.org/ itemtype when constructing rich results.

Follow the rules of schema markup

Like other aspect of web content, Google offers structured data guideline on how to deploy structured data correctly. Google mentions aspects of code index-ability, content, relevance, completeness etc. Google is generally very keen to spammy tactics, so we'd recommend giving this a once-over if you are not previously familiar.

Schema markup in different CMSs

CMSs of all types (such as: WordPress) have the ability to implement schema markup. If you haven't yet implemented schema markup on your website, check out these guides.

WordPress

Webflow

Wix

Types of schema markup for

The exact code structure of every and the schema type it uses will vary depending on the amount, and type of info related to it. There are 2 primary ways to implement schema markup. From the perspective of Google, there is no affective difference.

JSON-LD schema markup

JSON-LD docs

Google recommends the JSON-LD method to consolidate schema in 1 place, as it might be more maintainable, and less error-prone.


Microdata schema markup

Microdata docs

Instead of using JSON, microdata attaches attributes to existing HTML tags. The vocabulary is the same.

Microdata may be best for developers who:
  • Are experienced in working with schema markup
  • Manage large scale dynamic and/or conditional rendering

Example Web Page


This is an example webpage with a featured video.




Example Video Title


This is an example video description.


Video Thumbnail


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Test & validate your schema markup

Schema.org's validator

The official schema.org validator checks for recognized vocabulary, syntax, and value formatting (such as date formats, url formats, etc)

  • Schema.org vocabulary
  • Syntax
  • Value-type validation
Schema.org validator

Google's rich result test

Google's rich result test checks for schema.org vocabulary, syntax and value formatting. Google rich result test also checks if Google approves of the structured data.

  • Schema.org vocabulary
  • Syntax
  • Value-type validation
  • Google-approved SERP assets
Rich results test
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Monitoring schema with industry tools

The Schema.org Validator is great for checking structure as well as both Google and non-Google recognized schema types, however Google's Test will check the syntax, as well as the missing of mandatory fields, the missing of optional fields as recognized by Google.

In Google Search Console under the "Enhancements" tab, you will see a list of schema types Google has recognized on your website (you may not see the tab if Google has not detected any schema on your site).

Google Search Console 'Enhancements' screenshot
Google Search Console 'Enhancements' screenshot

Google is known to detect schema both over a period of time (few days to a few weeks), and incompletely (as far as being displayed in Google Search Console), so be patient.

Here you will see the schemas detected by Google that have "Errors" (not showing in SERP), ones that have "Issues" (showing in SERP under some circumstances), and "Valid" (fully approved by Google). If an item has as an "Error" or an "Issue", you will be able to see when it was detected, as well as the type of problem Google is detecting with it. Once you have believed you have solved the issue in your schema, republish your site, and click "Run Validation" to confirm the problem is resolved. It may take a few days or a week for Google to confirm.

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