Tagged: media error, meta description
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August 19, 2019 at 3:42 pm #1128937
Hello! On a company website built with Enfold the homepage features a self-hosted video, which is the first content item.
When google searching the company’s, the meta description is not displayed, instead the errorMedia error: Format(s) not supported or source(s) not found.
is shown. which is very annoying (and the video works fine on all devices).
As also described in other threads, custom fields were used as well as a manual excerpt – see screenshots linked to in the private content section.
What can be done to fix this?Thank you!
August 20, 2019 at 5:20 am #1129100Hey Maike,
When did you change the text in your SEO plugin? Please note that SERPS can take a very long time to update.
Best regards,
RikardAugust 20, 2019 at 10:40 am #1129176Hi Rikkard,
I wanted to avoid another plugin and tried to add the meta description via custom fields, as suggested in other threads.
This was done two months ago, so time should not be the issue.
Reluctantly, I will give yoast a try – or is there another good way to do this?August 21, 2019 at 5:42 am #1129422Hi,
I personally use Yoast on all sites that I create, it’s almost like its WordPress standard to use it. I would recommend that you install Yoast or another similar SEO plugins to see what happens after that.
Best regards,
RikardApril 11, 2020 at 3:36 pm #1202924Hi
I’m having this problem too and I use Yoast. If you insert a selfhosted video as first element or as background in your first Color Section, instead of reading the meta description in meta name=”description” content=” yoast snippet description” Google posts the following meta description in the snippet: Media error: Format(s) not supported or source(s) not found.Is there something I can do to prevent this inconvenience?
For now I solved it by disallowing the videos in robots.txt
Disallow: /video-folder/name of the video.mp4Thank you, Best Reagards
Manu- This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by manurimini.
April 15, 2020 at 5:09 am #1203836Hi Manu,
I’m very sorry for the late reply. Do you have a test page where we can see this problem happening on?
Best regards,
RikardApril 15, 2020 at 12:33 pm #1203946Hi Rikard
thank you for the quick reply
I’ve sent the link in private content
Best regards
ManuApril 17, 2020 at 7:38 am #1204614Hi Manu,
Thanks for that, I see the same thing on my end. Did you change this recently? If so then please don’t expect that search engines like Google will reflect your changes instantly, it can take up to several weeks for them to update their indexes.
If you need further help then please post admin login details in private so that we can have a closer look.
Best regards,
RikardApril 17, 2020 at 8:50 am #1204646Thank you Rikard
Do you have any idea why this is happening? I would like to have the videos to be indexed and by disallowing them they will not appear in search results. Is there a way to force the <meta name=”description” content=”my content”> to be read by Google first instead of the video?
Best Regards
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