Video Links under meta description
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Has anyone seen Google adding links to the site's videos right under the meta description for the result? I tried finding more information on it and couldn't find any. Anyone here know how to get a video link displayed with your search result?
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Hi Matt, Thanks for the answer! I don't think it's site links exactly. I added an image to help clarify. It's very similar to site links, but there's a play button next to a video link.
And, good luck with the IPad.
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Arg... There were paragraphs when I typed that... Honest! First time I've used QA through my iPad - looks like I broke it - Matt
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Hi, This sounds like a 'sitelink' feature, whereby other pages from the top ranked site are shown below the meta description on google's results page. Unfortunately there isn't a way to manually turn this feature on inside webmaster tools - they simply appears for sites that Google deems to be worthy of such an honour. Once they do appear you can stop certain pages showing as a sitelink by disabling them inside webmaster tools, which does mean that you get a degree of control over how they're displayed. There are ways you can increase your chances of having sitelinks enabled which include things like ranking consistently well, having a high ctr rate on organic searches and (most importantly) having a site with well designed, logical navigation. One of our clients received sitelinks about a month after we started working with them whilst a personal project that I've been working on for just over a year is still waiting... So, unfortunately, it's just a case of being patient. To answer the direct question of how to include a video, this would be down to how your site was set up and ensuring that Google saw the video as being important enough to show as a sitelink. I don't have any experience in this though so wouldn't be able to give you any specific help. Oh... If you're really desperate, there's always the option of enabling them on an adwords campaign!! - Matt
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