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I have only seen the term "site links" used to describe these..

https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334

What I'm describing is something different. Do they go by the same name?

I recently came across a type of rich snippet in a Google search result that I can't find information about. I attached a screen shot and circled in red..

http://i.imgur.com/mWgj9.png

Has anyone seen these rich snippets before? If so, what are they called and how do you get them for your site?

Thanks!

mWgj9.png

We created the videos ourselves and are self-hosting.

All videos have a unique title

We normally rank between #1-3 for long-tail product related keywords in our industry.

Then we saw our rankings drop when we added product videos to some of our product pages.

My hypothesis was that for most ecommerce-related queries, Google has a certain aesthetic that they are going for in the SERP's. They like to show video listings somewhere in the middle of the first page.. not as one of the first 3 results.

1. Product page
2. Product page
3. Google shopping results
4. Product page
5. Video Result on product page
6. Video Result on product page
7. Product page

I did an experiment by removing the product videos from a selection of our product pages and as soon as they were reindexed w/o the video we saw an average of a 3 spot jump in rankings!

Since the product videos have actually helped on-site conversion rate.. we'd like to keep them on the product pages but hide them from being indexed by Google.

Is there a safe way to do this? Is it possible to use an i-frame, or will Google still see the video on the page and index it as such.

Thanks for any advice!

Thanks for the reply, Phil.

I'm not testing whether my choice of hosting effects rankings.

I'm trying to confirm that by adding a video to our product pages, we may have been pushed down lower in the SERP's to fit Google's "aesthetic model."

Whether or not that results in more or less clicks is a separate issue... but definitely the next step.

Thanks for the input, everyone.

I'm doing an informal experiment to test this theory. It's not perfectly controlled, but I think it will still be helpful.

I compiled a list product pages that I think are showing up lower in the SERP's because of having self-hosted videos.

Recorded the rankings of those pages (non-personalized) for the keywords we're targeting and then asked our content department to take down the videos on those pages.

I'll follow up in a week or two once Google recrawls those pages to see if the rankings have changed.

I work on an e-commerce site and for many of the products we sell, we rank #1 for "product name + item number" related searches.

We decided to add product videos to some of our products in the hopes of getting an additional listing in the SERP's (regular listing + video listing in universal video results)

Instead..

What we've noticed is that sometimes we are not getting 2 listings but just a regular listing with a video thumbnail that ranks somewhere on the middle of the first page.

The video thumbnail is great.. but I'd rather the #1 position. I don't think Google likes to show video results as the #1 position for obvious product searches.

What do you think?

Did we lose our #1 position because of adding the videos to our product pages?

Any advice or similar experiences?

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Additional information: On some of those queries, Google had decided to ignore our video and we have maintained our #1 ranking.

Thanks!

Hello,

What is the best practice for links appearing on every page of your site pointing to shopping cart, login, registration, etc. pages?  Basically what is the best format for links in your site template that point to pages you do not need to rank or possibly even be indexed?

no-follow, iframe, regular?

Thanks.

Thanks for the input, everyone.

I'm doing an informal experiment to test this theory. It's not perfectly controlled, but I think it will still be helpful.

I compiled a list product pages that I think are showing up lower in the SERP's because of having self-hosted videos.

Recorded the rankings of those pages (non-personalized) for the keywords we're targeting and then asked our content department to take down the videos on those pages.

I'll follow up in a week or two once Google recrawls those pages to see if the rankings have changed.