Missing field “thumbnailUrl” and other mistakes from Google Search Console
Tried with default theme: Yes
Tried with all other plugins disabled: No
Browser version: Chrome 100.0.4896.88
Hi,
I’m experiencing this errors on Google Search Console:
– Missing field “thumbnailUrl”
– Missing field “uploadDate”
– Missing field “description”
– Missing field “name”
The error occurs on every page where I embed the YouTube videos.
How can I fix this?
Thanks.
You need to fill in the data manually using the Block or shortcodes or you can purchase ARVE Pro and have it autofilled in. You can also disable the SEO data completely in the ARVE settings to have the errors go away, but you loose SEO benefits.
Do you still have this issue? It may take some time for search engines to recrawl your site and update the information. Otherwise, note that thumbnails can only obtain from some major hosts like YouTube, not every host.
Thanks for the additional info. We are still experiencing the issue, looks to be specific to Vimeo. If it’s not possible to get those and search console is throwing warnings, perhaps you could include a Vimeo fallback (img) in the plugin config at some point in the future.
Hi Nico,
We licensed, installed, and enabled the Pro add on yesterday, and this morning search console alerted us to 50 instances of Missing field “thumbnailUrl”, do you have any recommendations on how that can be resolved without having to manually update the short code. Thanks in advance for your help.