Making Video lead to site and not Youtube

[MMM]

Noticed that there are videos hosted on youtube, however in Google they lead to the site page where the video is and not to youtube.

Any idea how to define it this way?

[nwalker]

Can you give an example?

[MMM]

For example: https://www.google.com/search?q=onli...w=1745&bih=852

for me the first results is How not to suck at poker - and it goes to pokerlistings page (althought the video plays from youtube)

Then you can see result from youtube.

so the question is how to make it go to your page and not the youtube link.

[nwalker]

For example: https://www.google.com/search?q=onli...w=1745&bih=852

for me the first results is How not to suck at poker - and it goes to pokerlistings page (althought the video plays from youtube)

Then you can see result from youtube.

so the question is how to make it go to your page and not the youtube link.

In Wordpress you can Set Video as the Featured image.

[PROFRBcom]

In Wordpress you can Set Video as the Featured image.

Assuming this is what does it, what is the CODE for this? This surely can NOT be WordPress specific... it is a meta tag or some ****.

[MMM]

In Wordpress you can Set Video as the Featured image.

Do you know that's the solution?

[CHIC21]

i-frame may be? Look: http://prntscr.com/166ij9g From the site it leads to Youtube.

[MMM]

yes. that's sure. but the question is not how to place it on site, but how to define that main url of the video in serp

[nwalker]

Do you know that's the solution?

No, it's just a suggestion that may help you narrow down how to do it.

[rmeeuwsen]

Only thing I found so far is the Twenty Seventeen theme.
You can put the yoube url in the header media and it will automatically play when you go to the home page.

Example at https://atlanticcity.website/

[universal4]

If I am understanding the original question, you are wanting to link to a video from youtube, and yet have it show in Google index as being hosted at example domain domain.fake, and not show as being hosted at the correct location, youtube.com

If you want the url of the video (within google) to be domain.fake instead of youtube.com, then you might want to just host the video yourself at domain.fake and the url with be domain.fake.

You could then add additional information that links back to your youtube channel.

Why would google link the video to somewhere it does not actually reside?

If I misunderstood the question, I apologize.

Rick
Universal4

[PROFRBcom]

I think OP is saying there are SERPS which look like YouTube video links, but when clicked, actually lead back to Website X where the video plays instead of playing on YouTube where expected.

Thus, it is some sort of trickery to rank in the video section of the SERPS yet still get people to Website X instead of sending them to one's YouTube channel.

Correct me if I am wrong...

[universal4]

Ahhh ok, so some cheaters are using anchor's or title that say Youtube, on links to videos on their own sites?

I would think that should be short lived if that is the case.

If they are videos that physically reside on youtube but immediately redirect to another site, that sounds like something that youtube would not want happening, and reporting such to youtube might get that taken care of. Unless it is yet another video hack that youtube has yet to figure out how to detect in their automated system.

Rick
Universal4

[CHIC21]

I would recommend adding the site to your watch list. See if it gets kicked out or not.

[PROFRBcom]

I would like to know an example of this so I can see it for myself... MMM?

[MMM]

Check here for example: https://www.google.com/search?q=onli...w=1745&bih=852

for me the first results is How not to suck at poker - and if you click it goes to pokerlistings page (although the video plays from youtube)

Then you can see another result but this one goes to youtube.

so the question is how to make it go to your page and not the youtube link.

[MMM]

Ahhh ok, so some cheaters are using anchor's or title that say Youtube, on links to videos on their own sites?

No no, not domain fake or something of that sort.

And yes, you can host the video on your site, but that has other drawbacks.

In these examples, the video is hosted on youtube but it's their original video which also shown on their site. But somehow on Google they managed to do so the the video is "shown" from their site and not from youtube.

And you can watch the sites but doubt they would be kicked out as on this example we are talking about pokerlistings and cardschat. I am not poker aff but don't think something kicked them in a decade.

[universal4]

That is a case of a strong page, ranking for the terms "online poker hands", and the page just happens to have a youtube video embedded on the page. I wonder if that page has many links pointing to it using those terms, since that particular set of terms are not on the age, or in titles or metas at all.

The terms "how not to suck at poker" is on the page 14 times

Searching for that term, poker listings has many of the top spots ( 8 ), but those spots lead directly to videos on their channel at youtube.

Rick
Universal4

[chaumi]

That is a case of a strong page, ranking for the terms "online poker hands", and the page just happens to have a youtube video embedded on the page. I wonder if that page has many links pointing to it using those terms, since that particular set of terms are not on the age, or in titles or metas at all.

The terms "how not to suck at poker" is on the page 14 times

Searching for that term, poker listings has many of the top spots ( 8 ), but those spots lead directly to videos on their channel at youtube.

Rick
Universal4

+1

I don't see anything in code that suggests any on page manipulation other than the visible construct of the page. It seems to be 'just' Google recognizing the pages weight/authority/age and it's pulling the video because it's earned the right to be there. There may be (and probably are) some links somewhere anchored with something along the lines of 'see this video on how to play poker'.

[DaftDog]

This plugin may help: https://www.embedplus.com/

Video SEO Tags
Automatically add Google, Bing, and Yahoo friendly markup for a greater chance of showing up in search engine video results.