Video SEO Markup Test

[3plains]

Hey Everyone,

I'm trying to get a video marked up on my (test) website and it is not working. I was hoping someone around here could lend a hand.

the post is www.zachsemago.com/?p=28

This is my first ever markup attempt. I assume I just put the markup that applies in the appropriate place in the wordpress post. I thought I had it setup right, and the google rich snippet testing tool told me it extracted some video data. I chose to rank for something without competition so I targeted "how to buy a car on jupiter, mars". The post shows up #1 for that term and some other related ones, but no video.

I thought I had covered all my bases, can someone please take a peek and let me know if I'm screwing up somewhere?

FYI, I don't have a video sitemap operating. Of the articles I read, it seemed a video sitemap was not mandatory. But regardless my brain has turned to mush on the subject so if I should/shouldn't use one pleas tell!

Thanks

[PhilNottingham]

Hey Ryan,

I'm afraid there's no way you're going to get a rich snippet for that page on that site - certainly not without a video sitemap. For a video to be indexed on Mark-up alone (and even with a sitemap to some extent) the site does need to be relatively strong and the page clearly quite relevant. Unfortunately, this means testing on a WP blog like that won't be good enough.

If you have a stronger, bigger site you can play with - then i's recommend creating a random page on that and giving it a go.

Cheers,

Phil.

[3plains]

Thanks Phil. I almost gave up on this question!

Via another article of yours, I've been able to (I believe) correctly upload a video Sitemap through Wistia. Hopefully this will add another signal to Google to rank the video. Who knows...I'll let you know if I see anything cool.