MetaCafe SERP thumbnail sabotage
I was checking rankings for one of my offline clients for whom I've got dominating the serps for his niche and cities. He has a lot of videos that I put on 3 different sites, one of them being Metacafe.
I was shocked to discover that the video descriptions are on a wiki platform, where every member is an editor and can change every video description. WTF?
I think that must be why something bizarre has happened to the thumbnail photos that show in Google serps. They are pictures not from the video, and they run the gamut from a man on top of a woman, (both clothed) in bed, to a topless woman , to pornography.
I don't know if it's a jealous competitor or a random prank. It's a pretty funny prank in general, but I obviously need to end it.
Does anybody have Metacafe expertise that can help me here?
By the way, I could not find the images from the serps, anywhere on my videos or in my account. The thumbnails for the videos on Metacafe and all from the videos.
The videos were not tampered with either.
I thought I had tracked down where they made the image swaps. On the edit page is a link for THUMBNAILS, but when I clicked it, all I could see for changing thumbnails is a system where you play the video and then click to grab frames. I saw no way to put in images that aren't taken from the videos.
You can revert edits, but it seems that all the edits were mine, made on the text of the descriptions.
I'm waiting on Metacafe to reply to my email.
I went ahead and created new thumbnails, but I have a feeling that's not going to help.
I was shocked to discover that the video descriptions are on a wiki platform, where every member is an editor and can change every video description. WTF?
I think that must be why something bizarre has happened to the thumbnail photos that show in Google serps. They are pictures not from the video, and they run the gamut from a man on top of a woman, (both clothed) in bed, to a topless woman , to pornography.
I don't know if it's a jealous competitor or a random prank. It's a pretty funny prank in general, but I obviously need to end it.
Does anybody have Metacafe expertise that can help me here?
By the way, I could not find the images from the serps, anywhere on my videos or in my account. The thumbnails for the videos on Metacafe and all from the videos.
The videos were not tampered with either.
I thought I had tracked down where they made the image swaps. On the edit page is a link for THUMBNAILS, but when I clicked it, all I could see for changing thumbnails is a system where you play the video and then click to grab frames. I saw no way to put in images that aren't taken from the videos.
You can revert edits, but it seems that all the edits were mine, made on the text of the descriptions.
I'm waiting on Metacafe to reply to my email.
I went ahead and created new thumbnails, but I have a feeling that's not going to help.
nothing to see here.