How to index private videos with Video SEO
As of Yoast SEO 20.0, the settings interface inside our plugins has received a major overhaul. Please update to the latest version of Yoast SEO if your plugin does not look like the screenshots you encounter in our Help center.
Currently, our Video SEO plugin doesn’t work with private videos if they are set to private before the video is indexed by the plugin. Unfortunately, the plugin cannot read the data from a private video. We’re working on a solution for this. In the meantime, we have a work-around for you, which we’ll discuss in this article.
Do you have a different question regarding the Video SEO plugin? Check our Video SEO FAQ.
- Change the privacy settings of the video(s) in the video hosting platform to ‘public’.
- Reindex the videos in the plugin using ‘Force reindex of already indexed videos’.
Check the box for ‘Force reindex of already indexed videos’. Then click ‘Re-Index Video’s.
- Change the privacy settings of the video(s) in the video hosting platform to ‘private’ again.
Please note that every time you do a forced reindex of already indexed videos, you must first change the videos to public.
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