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My Video Ranked Google 1st page BUT No Thumbnail

by elitesalesgroup
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My Video is on the 1st page of Google but with no thumbnail. It just looks like a regular blue link. When I click on the Video Tab it idoens show at all, and when I click on the Youtube tab at the top it shows number 1.
I really want my thumbnail.

Does anyone know why this might happen?

Thanks in advance
#1st #google #page #ranked #thumbnail #video
  • Profile picture of the author FredJones
    It happens with my videos at times. While I am not sure about the reason, but the most often I see this happen is when my video is backlinked a lot (I do/manage the backlinking to it) and hence ranks based upon the backlinks.

    Also, when they rank in groups (like, 3 youtube videos ranking together) I always get a thumbnail. However, when I rank 1 video (the Youtube group does not rank), I have faced the situation of not having a thumbnail a few times. In almost each of these cases, the video has been in a relatively tough niche and had needed a high number of backlinks to rank.

    Check whether this is the case with your video also.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Backlinks to a video on youtube is not the same as a backlink
      to a site. Different animal. Much different animal. Your video
      exists in cyberspace much the way an image does, but not
      quite. Youtube stores the video and shows it by getting
      the video code, ?=whatever. Building a backlink with a ?
      in it, like youtube, is basically building backlinks to
      youtube.com. The "page" your video on youtube resides
      on, is dynamic, constantly changing.

      Build backlinks to your youtube channel.

      But here's what most people do not understand. The
      best, and very best way, of getting thumbnails and
      "helping" google, is to embed the video on a page that
      is SEO'd for the video. That's the first trick. Second,
      and this is where it gets interesting, is to only have
      one, yes just one, video on a page.

      Then, third, backlink to THOSE pages.

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  • Profile picture of the author elitesalesgroup
    This is great advice. I will do this in the morning! Thank you so much!
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  • Profile picture of the author Philip Zachary
    These notes were very useful for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author MatthewWoodward
    I assume your using a video sitemap to define the location of the thumnnail it should be displaying?
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  • Profile picture of the author elitesalesgroup
    No. Where would I put a sitemap? This is a youtube video. Its not currently embeded on my website..
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