A couple months ago, Google teased the new video indexing report in Google Search Console. Well now, Google said this report will roll out to some sites “over the next few months.” The tricky part, you may never see it, you would only see it if Google detects videos on your site.
Also, Google’s URL Inspection tool was upgraded to show these coverage issues on video content.
So you won’t know if the report is not showing yet because of the slow rollout or because there is an issue with Google detecting if there are videos on your site.
Again, if Google sees videos on your site, Google will display the new “Video indexing report” on the left navigation bar in the coverage section of Google Search Console. The report shows the status of video indexing on your site. It helps you answer the following questions:
Like the old coverage report, if you fix an existing issue, you can use the report to validate the fix and track how your fixed video pages are updated in the Google Search index.
The video indexing report shows how many indexed pages on your site contain one or more videos, and on how many of those pages a video could be indexed. The report shows the following information:
Here is a list of errors the report can show you:
Here is a sample of the report (click to enlarge):
Like I said above, the URL Inspection tool now checks the video indexing status of a specific page. Note, this does not work on the live URL inspection tool, it works on the normal version. When inspecting a page, if Google detected a video on it, you will see the following in the results:
Here is what that looks like:
Here are more details on this new report from Google.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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