Hello, I have the following issue when using the video playlist plugin.
In google pagespeed tests appears the following problem regarding the videos and the SEO optimization:
Links are not crawlable: Search engines may use href attributes on links to crawl websites. Ensure that the href attribute of anchor elements links to an appropriate destination, so more pages of the site can be discovered.
I added manually the href attribute using JS (upon the loading of the page, after the creation of the element appended the href attribute and value from Youtube). But this led to a different problem – the links were redirecting to youtube, something that we do not want (we want the visitor to be able to see the videos remaining in our page).
The second thing I tried was in a similar way (using a simple JS script) appending just a value to the href attribute (e.g. href=”#v” so that it neither redirects nor move to the top of the page). But the error in the SEO section remained (I assume that maybe could be because it is appended after the creation of the element, the tests are ignoring it??).
So, summarizing what we would like is:
- To keep using the video playlist plugin, but with the addition of the href attribute so that the error I mentioned is resolved. In this case it is very important (in terms of UX) that upon clicking the user is not redirected to Youtube.
- Or as an alternative could be that the element for each video would be different from , so that the need for href doesn’t exist (but I am not sure if the plugin could work like this).
Finally, what is of importance to us is to find a way that the player works and the SEO issue is resolved (whether it would be an element or not, with a specific attribute or not etc, is ok).
I hope I explained it 🙂 , but I am at your disposal for any further info. Thanks!
Kind regards,
Hello!
Which plugin do you use?
Thank you!
Hello, it is the video playlist element from the tagdiv composer. Thanks!
Hello!
These links https://app.screencast.com/8f4WmZmXEFxTq doesn’t have a href because it will lead you to another page and we wanted to keep the loading of the video in that section.
I will add this request on our improvement list.
Thank you for understanding!
Hello,
Could the plugin work if this is not a link element?
Or if not, is there a way I could add an href with a value through the interface (and not like I did it with JS after the loading of the page)?
Thank you!
Hello!
I’ve added this request to our improvement list, so our developers can solve the SEO issue.
The support team does not cover custom work required to change the functionality of our elements.
For customization and other services, you can contact our custom work team here: https://tagdiv.com/premium-customization-services/, and they can find a solution for your needs.
Thank you!
Ok, thank you!
