We've run into a really interesting scenario with indexing video pages in Google video search on a rather large Video platform/website. Let me break it down...
- Google indexes the video pages as regular pages without a problem. But it ignores all video schema.
- The google crawler DOES NOT index these video pages in the Google video search.
- The google crawler seems to intentionally avoid downloading the video file. The crawler downloads every item on the page except the video file (weird).
Here's where it gets weirder...
- The google crawler will index the video in the video search index if DIFFERENT website embeds the player on their domain.
- If the embedded video player is on a different domain, it DOES download the video file.
- NOTE, the embedded player is the same player on the original domain. The original domain actually owns the embedded player and video. They are the source of the video content and the platform for the embedded player
Conclusion...
Google will index the companies videos ONLY when its being delivered by the source domain. They've hired a two SEO companies to analyze and both of them came to the same conclusion (they've both never seen such an odd scenario), and their conclusions are hard for me to believe. So I'm looking for more opinions or if anyone else has seen something like.
