I’ve been very hard at work with the Video SEO plugin, adding support for the most used video embed plugins for WordPress. See the changelog for specifics. The plugin is, I’m proud to say, selling well and people seem to be loving it. I’m also working on another project with the guys from Video User Manuals and they, very kindly, made a video for the Video SEO plugin that I just had to share with you as it shows just how easy the plugin is to use:
You can of course still buy the plugin, you can go ahead and do that here.
What’s the rating field for? Why would we not rate our own videos a 5? ;)
Hey Matt, good question :) it’s mostly there because I want to allow other plugins to hook into that, for instance if you had a rating plugin for your posts, that could hook into that value…
The video doesn’t seem to be working for me ^__^
“There was an error encountered while loading this video”
Nice Video Plugin its going to be good for SEO professionals as well as for users to know about SEO.
Hello Joost. First – some quick patronage…. I am a relative newbee in the WP world, but only develop sites and solutions for this space. I have enjoyed reading your posts and related works – for me its been a master’s degree in WordPress! Now to my question – since this plugin is designed to support one video per page / post, how does it work when the video is displayed in a WP sidebar?
thanks in advance!
Neil
Hello again Joost. I originally posted this question on Oct 11 and haven’t heard back yet, so please forgive the repost here….
If a video is enbedded within a sidebar, how does the plugin help a page to rank for the video? and by extention, if a common sidebar appears on more than one page, does this impact the plugin’s work? or should we just stick to pages and posts, leaving sidebars for other content?
thanks!
Within a sidebar the plugin doesn’t work, as the video could be on multiple pages and XML video sitemaps don’t allow for that. So your videos should be in one page.
thanks for clearing that up!
One additional question for you. Have you added support for the youtube and vimeo shortcodes on the MySiteMyWay framework? if not, I would like to make that request.
thanks!
Neil
Hi Joost. I just bought this plugin, installed it and did a re index. While it did detect all the on site videos and youtube embedded. It did not create a sitemap. When I hit the view sitemap, it just took me to my home page. I confirmed also with filezilla. no sitemap was created.
I have another issue. It is breaking my theme layout. I am using Heatmap pro.
It breaks the layout in categories and posts. Throws the sidebar to the bottom.
Each post that just has the jwplayer self hosted it throws in these characters in the post “>
I deactivate the plugin then everything is fine.
You should have an email from me with a beta version that fixes it all :)
Thanks Joost for helping me out. All my situations are fixed. 10 stars on a great plugin.
Hi Joost,
Most of the pages on which I placed a video are still not showing in the serps with the thumbnail. Is there a specific place to place the video within the post for it to get a thumbnail?
Can it be at the end of the post, after all or most of the text?
If i embed a video from you and use your plugin this will show thumbnail in Google result? or just work o self hosted videos?
I am about to buy, but I have one small question. In the Vimeo video you refer to, the path to the video is put in the post. I guess it also works for embedded videos of YouTube, but I just want to make sure, as I have several websites where I have only embedded YouTube videos. Hope to hear from you soon.
This looks great! Before I buy, I do have a question. My videos are hosted on YouTube. They play in a video lightbox, via the WP-video-lightbox plug in. They are directly referenced, as follows: href=”http://www.youtu.be/Nu9QZm9sDA4?rel=0″ rel=”wp-video-lightbox (…..)
Will your plug in work in this case?
Thanks!
Thanks! This makes life much easier, keep up the good work
Nice one Yoast!
This is exactly what I need for a client of my running WP.
This is awsome Joost! Im already using this Yoast WordPress SEO at a daily basis on all my WP sites and im definitely gonna be using Video SEO for WordPress also.
Thanks!
Hi Joost,
I sent a few emails for support to the plugin. I received no reply. Can you please get back to me? The plugin is not working on my site and it has been nearly a month so far.
Sent an email couple days ago. Plug in works great for page and post. My homepages all have videos, is there any way i can use your plug in to recognize homepages. If so how? If not, do you plan on creating this function?
Much thanks
Sevin
Nice Plugin Buddy….
Just purchased The Video SEO Plugin And Its results Are really Good For Me… Traffic increased to 30 %
Hello,
I was informed to use the old embed code for Vimeo because Google didn’t spider the method. Therefore, I included the following
” ”
and this plugin does not add it to its sitemap. However, it does include it if I use the method.
Thank you.
-Joshua
The following code will not include this video in my sitemap, however if I use Iframe it does. I was told that Google doesn’t search iframe and I should use the old embed code.
thank for your help seo
Hello Yoast,
Will there every be a version of the Video SEO Plugin that does not require your WordPress SEO plugin?
I don’t question your WordPress SEO plugin, I am just using another one and it is working better for me though I would like to try your video seo plugin.
Thanks in advance
No, sorry. The video plugin relies heavily on APIs built in to my WP SEO plugin for opengraph and for XML Sitemap generation.
Hi – I have this plugin and of course the other but am running in to a few problems now. Both plugins are generating 404 pages when trying to view site map pages, is it a case of changing permissions? Also when adding videos they do not show up in the snippet as talked about in the video above, is this because of the site map issue??
Will this work with videos we shoot and upload on our site? We use flowplayer.
We are using Wistia.com I’ve read comments from you in the month of Sept that you are going to add support.
Hi Joost,
I am looking for a clickable map of the Nertherlands for WordPress, do you know some?
Thanks a lot.
My homepages all have videos, is there any way i can use your plug in to recognize homepages. If so how? If not, do you plan on creating this function?
Most of the pages on which I placed a video are still not showing in the serps with the thumbnail. Is there a specific place to place the video within the post for it to get a thumbnail?
Howdy,
I’m using a video premium template for wordpress, detube.
I enter my video url slightly differently in the theme, is there a way to get the plugin to look at that url instead of in the body of the post ? (or make the url in the body of the post invisible)
Also, how do I get the plugin to work with self-hosted material ?
Thanks
Mike
Do you thing it is “smart” to create a video for a lot of content pages, jus to get the video thumb in Google for increased CTR?
I’m considering to do this, but it will be a lot of work….but might be worth it..
Groeten
Hey Menno,
don’t add too much content around video’s or Google might deem it “not a video” and not show a video snippet.
Just bought the Video SEO plugin and installed it and applied license. Everything seems to be installed and set up correctly; however, posts where I have Vimeo video embedded, I’m not seeing the video in Snippet Preview nor the “Video” tab in WordPress SEO by Yoast section. I’ve tried testing on existing new pages/posts. Can’t get it to work!
Yeah…still waiting for a reply. I’ve tried commented in multiple places and I’ve sent a message through your contact form. I’ve completedly uninstalled and reinstalled the Video SEO plugin several times with no luck. Plugin does not seem to be picking up any of my youtube or jwplayer videos in posts or pages. Please provide some support here!
James, could you drop me an email by replying to the purchase email, as stated in there? :) the email you used to comment doesn’t have a valid video seo license attached to it, so I need to know what email you used for buying the plugin.
Who actually reads confirmation emails ;) Your contact page says “I’m sorry but I can’t handle plugin support via email.”
Anyways, I resolved this issue finally after a few more reinstalls and using IE instead of Chrome for the install. Not sure what the problem was.
I do have another issue though with jw player shortcode embed, so I’ll reply to the conf email for that. Thanks.
Thanks Joost very informative video demo, I’ve had some great results with the WordPress Seo plugin and has made my life so much easier when doing on-page seo.
I’m very interested to test out the Video Seo Plugin, now I just need to create some worthy video content to experiment with.
Joost, Is the plugin useful for webmasters that use 3rd party video hosting such as YouTube?
Nice plugin! We’ve implemented several plugins, mainly Magento, on our sites and this video plugin for WP is awesome! Nice work.
Hello Joost. Need instruction. I sent a couple emails using my proper licensing email to ask you a question and havent heard from you. Is there any more proper way to get a question answered? I am the guy that asked about using plugin for homepage video, not page/post. If not s there a work around for it?
Thanks
Sevin
BTW- this guy Juristenkantoor cut and pasted my question as his own. That wasnt me under alias. I’m a respectful customer looking for a straight answer.
Hey, sorry to hear that, must have missed that as I usually answer those emails straight away :)
There is no workaround currently I’m afraid, how are you embedding the video? Where is it stored?
it is a youtube video, embedding via a lightbox modal window
Hello Mr. Joost,
Your Seo plugin really Helped me allot.
And in Combination with this little Video Integration, it is going to be even more Better i Hope.
Thanks for all, Cheers and keep up the Great Work.
Best Regards for you.
Very neat plug in. I will have to give it a spin since video snippets are usually quite the pain to manually create.
Is getting authorship with google linked up with my video posts helpful for the video seo? (ie you video plug in) or is it just helpful for content posts?
Hello Joost,
I’m very interested in this new plugin but since I don’t see any money back guarantee stated anywhere on your page I want to be sure I’ll be able to use it first. My theme is U-Design and I use Easy Video Player. I noticed others have asked if your plugin will support EVP but the response isn’t clear. You asked for a link in a previous reply so here’s what’s I found inside the html code…
The video can be found at my page https://novamegafitness.com/2012/08/12/light-therapy-hidden-benefit-4/
I hope that helps. Please let me know if I will be able to use your plugin with Easy Video Player. BTW, I already use your “Yoast WordPress SEO” plugin and I love it so I do want to purchase your new Video SEO plugin.
Thanks