Video SEO by Yoast - Questions?

It's impossible to know what happens with SERP placements. Every site and scenario is different, and there's just too many factors in play.

I don't see why embedding on sites would negatively affect the ranking of a YouTube video, but you never know with Google.

When it comes to ranking articles, I don't think video embedding itself makes that much difference. Of course CTR can get a bit better. If the video is same on multiple pages, I guess the icon would be the same too. If you indeed have multiple articles, I'd a/b test that for a bit and see if something happens to those with a video link.

Yoast Video SEO didn't handle self-hosted videos at the time it was released. Don't know about the current status. I guess they would know, so maybe you could send a pre-sales question?

First off you don't use YT vids with Yoast, second you would not use duplicate videos either. Yes it creates video xml for you.

Hopefully @Yukon will eventually notice that we need help here.

I got Yoast SEO back in the day when it was way cheaper than today. I can accept Joost's argument that it's a bit of a pain to keep up with these services, but I'd not get it just for on-page stuff.

No news from Yukon yet? So many people are waiting for him to show up

Last I checked Yoast included YT videos but I think it's buggy because of YT always making changes on their end. It's hard to support something (YT) when they're always changing stuff.

I don't personally use the Yoast video plugin, but most of what I've learned about getting videos to show up in Google SERPs was from researching the Yoast website source code. I knew he was ranking pages with videos in Google SERPs, so that was the best place to start researching.

I use the old video embed code from vimeo for my my video player, they have a nice looking player & they don't change anything. The video player can be on an external site/host (ex: vimeo) but the thumbnail image you see in Google SERPs needs to be hosted on the same domain where the video is embedded (your site), at least that's what Google docs. say, I haven't tested that since I don't need an external host for images.

One thing I think confuses people about video is, the actual video doesn't rank in Google SERPs, the page ranks with basic SEO & the video is simply attached to that page (video thumbnail image in SERPs). You can attach a video thumbnail image to a page buried in Google SERPs, the SERP position is irrelevant.

I'm not sure how Google will respond to the same video on multiple pages. Even If you went that route each time you embed a video on your own page/s you can use a unique image for the SERP video thumbnail image. It doesn't have to be the same image, it doesn't even have to be an image from the video. On the other hand Google is obviously looking at the video URL or it wouldn't be needed in the XML file. Test it on a few pages & see what happens.

I can usually get a video thumbnail image to show up in Google SERPs in 1-2 days, so when your testing things out don't give up too soon & start making changes on your site, xml file, etc... it might take a while to see results.