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Image in the ranking?

by gange10
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Hey Guys,

How did this guy get an image next to his organic raning like this?

https://www.google.co.uk/#q=wedding+dj+surrey

Cheers!!
#image #ranking #seo
  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    Originally Posted by gange10 View Post

    Hey Guys,

    How did this guy get an image next to his organic raning like this?

    Cheers!!
    He broke into Yukons house and stole the method.

    Or he is ranking a self hosted video instead of a post. Some evil ninja stuff.
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  • Profile picture of the author linkassistant
    It's because Google somehow managed to identify that video on the page.
    Here is what they have in the code:

    Code:
    <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="player.swf" width="430" height="344">
          <param name="flashvars" value="file=http://www.jon-saunders.co.uk/videos/weddingclips.flv" /> 
          <param name="movie" value="http://www.jon-saunders.co.uk/player.swf" /> 
        </object>
    But Google's Structured Data Testing Tool detected no structured data on that page, while usually this snippet would show up , because one's using Schema, OpenGraph or other structured data formats to code the page.

    You could read more about this here VideoObject - schema.org and https://support.google.com/webmaster..._topic=1088474
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    • Profile picture of the author andrealhendrick
      Very interesting, thank you for the explanation.
      Originally Posted by linkassistant View Post

      It's because Google somehow managed to identify that video on the page.
      Here is what they have in the code:

      Code:
      <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="player.swf" width="430" height="344">
          <param name="flashvars" value="file=http://www.jon-saunders.co.uk/videos/weddingclips.flv" /> 
          <param name="movie" value="http://www.jon-saunders.co.uk/player.swf" /> 
        </object>
      But Google's Structured Data Testing Tool detected no structured data on that page, while usually this snippet would show up , because one's using Schema, OpenGraph or other structured data formats to code the page.

      You could read more about this here VideoObject - schema.org and https://support.google.com/webmaster..._topic=1088474
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  • Profile picture of the author xegen
    Originally Posted by gange10 View Post

    Hey Guys,

    How did this guy get an image next to his organic raning like this?

    https://www.google.co.uk/#q=wedding+dj+surrey

    Cheers!!
    I'm sorry that you want to be in the search engine rankings next to your page would be a picture?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Like already said it's a self hosted video that's making that video thumbnail image show up in Google SERPs, it looks like he didn't really try too hard to get Google to find the video. The only xml file I see is dated 2011, doesn't list very many pages & no sign of a video xml file. No robots.txt either. IMO he was lucky Google even showed the video thumbnail in the SERPs.

    If your running Wordpress get the Yoast video thumbnail plugin (paid plugin).

    BTW, you don't need schema tags to get a video thumbnail image in Google SERPs.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Like already said it's a self hosted video that's making that video thumbnail image show up in Google SERPs, it looks like he didn't really try too hard to get Google to find the video. The only xml file I see is dated 2011, doesn't list very many pages & no sign of a video xml file. No robots.txt either. IMO he was lucky Google even showed the video thumbnail in the SERPs.

      If your running Wordpress get the Yoast video thumbnail plugin (paid plugin).

      BTW, you don't need schema tags to get a video thumbnail image in Google SERPs.
      See, told you this was his bag of tricks.

      If you ever need a monkey with some crayons, you've got my number.
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