Announcing the new Search Console Video Index Report

July 11, 2022

The Video indexing report is a new report from Google Search Console that helps webmasters understand the performance of their videos on Google and identify possible areas of improvement. The report shows the status of video indexing on a website, including the number of pages on which Google has identified a video, the videos that were indexed successfully, and the issues preventing videos from being indexed. This report will gradually roll out over the next few months.

The new Video indexing report on Search Console provides data on how Google is indexing your site's videos. You can use this report to track your fixed video pages and ensure that they are being properly updated in the Google index. This report is different from the Video Rich results report, which shows the validity of Video structured data items. The URL Inspection tool has also been updated to allow you to check the video indexing status of a specific page.

The new Video page indexing section in the URL inspection tool provides detailed information about how Google Search crawls and indexes your videos. The tool shows the video URL, the thumbnail URL, the page status (indexed or not), and a list of issues preventing the video from being indexed.

To learn more about video indexing best practices, check out the video best practices guide. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to them via the Google Search Central Community or on Twitter.

Google is constantly working to make the search experience more relevant and useful for everyone. In that spirit, we're introducing two new features in Google Search Console to help you understand how your site appears in search results on both desktop and mobile devices.

The first is a report on your site's AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) status. This report shows you which of your pages are valid AMP pages, and whether they have any errors that need to be fixed. You can find the AMP Status report under the "Search Appearance" menu in Search Console.

The second new feature is a report on your site's structured data. This report shows you which of your pages have structured data (such as reviews, price information, or event information), and whether there are any errors that need to be fixed. You can find the Structured Data report under the "Search Appearance" menu in Search Console.

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