SEO issues

  • Resolved aberniz

    (@aberniz)


    7 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, I’ve been using this plugin and it works great, from a load speed perspective.

    The problem is from a SEO perspective. It replaces your videos with images which are not SEO optimized. I mean, the name of the JPG images are not SEO optimized and the ALT tag is empty!

    If you add an standard Youtube video, Google Search sees that this video is related with your content, providing value to it.

    But with this plugin, from Google Search eyes, these images are not related to the topic of your post.

    I suggest to the author of this plugin, to allow the users to add a custom name for the image and an ALT tag. This would make this plugin perfect.

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  • Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for the feedback aberniz 🙂

    The (thumnail) image is actually a background image and as such it cannot have an ALT attribute.

    If you enable the “Add microdata?” option, the HTML with which the LYTE player is added will actually contain a significant amount of “structured data” about the embedded video (which is automatically fetched from the YouTube API) which will be “seen” by Google, as can be seen in Google’s structured data testing tool, e.g. for a post on my own blog (the errors/ warnings are about missing data for the Article-item, not the Video and are due to my theme not being up to snuff, should look into that one day).

    have a nice day 🙂
    frank

    Song Simian

    (@song-simian)

    7 years, 10 months ago

    I’m trying to figure out what any benefit a Youtube iframe would have over a Lyte code? For example, a Youtube iframe embed would be this (this is a Tom Cruise interview about Mission Impossible, haha):

    <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/fZcQah57jnY&#8221; frameborder=”0″ allow=”autoplay; encrypted-media” allowfullscreen></iframe>

    And a Lyte embed with microdata clicked would be this:

    <p><noscript><br />Watch this video on YouTube</noscript><meta itemprop=”description” content=”"…Welcome to Mission" Subscribe for weekly updates: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=officialgrahamnorton”></div&gt;
    </div>
    <div class=”lL” style=”max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;”><span class=”lyte_disclaimer”></span></div>

    With iframes, there is no alt tag, Google can’t see if it’s related to your article, and/or it’s not SEO optimized in any way. Am I wrong here?

    The only “advantage,” if any, is Google might see iframes better than nonscripts? I’ve read someplace that Google doesn’t like nonscripts, but I am not sure how it applies here.

    https://www.seroundtable.com/google-noscript-tag-18729.html

    I have no idea.

    PS: Now sure why the Tom Cruise video is shown. I just wanted the code to be displayed here!!!

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by Song Simian.
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