What is the Google Search Console Video indexing report?

The Video indexing report in Google Search Console is a tool designed to help website owners understand the performance of their videos on Google Search and identify potential areas for improvement.

How does the video impressions overlay work in Search Console?

The video impressions overlay displays the number of daily video impressions over time. These impressions are aggregated by page, meaning each appearance of the same page in a single search result or Discover session counts as an individual impression.

Why might the Search performance report show lower video impressions than the Video indexing report?

The Search performance report groups video search appearances by property rather than by URL. If multiple pages from your site appear in the search results, it is only counted as one impression, which can result in lower counts compared to the Video indexing report.

How does the sitemap filter improve the Video indexing report?

The sitemap filter allows you to narrow down the Video indexing report to show only video pages included in a selected sitemap. This filter applies to the report's charts, totals, issue lists, and data exports, making it easier to monitor your most important video content.

Google Updates the Search Console Video Indexing Report

Q: What are the latest updates to the Google Search Console Video indexing report?

The latest updates to the Video indexing report include a new video impressions overlay to track daily impressions over time and a sitemap filter to help users focus on specific video pages.

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Google Updates the Search Console Video Indexing Report

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What are the latest updates to the Google Search Console Video Indexing Report?

Core Definition: The Google Search Console Video Indexing Report is an analytical tool designed to help webmasters and marketers understand the performance of their videos on Google Search and identify possible areas for improvement.

Google has introduced new updates to the Search Console to help users more effectively track and optimize their video content. These enhancements provide granular data and better filtering options for monitoring video search appearances.

The Video impressions overlay now shows the number of daily video impressions over time, aggregated by page.
The Video indexing report counts multiple appearances of the same page in search results as separate impressions, unlike the Search performance report which groups by property.
A new Sitemap filter allows users to isolate and analyze video pages from a specifically selected sitemap.
The Sitemap filter automatically applies to all report features, including charts, issue lists, and exports.

Last July, Google launched a new report in Search Console to help you understand the performance of your videos on Google and identify possible areas of improvement. Today, Google shared more updates to the report on Search Console to help you achieve those goals more effectively.

Video impressions overlay

To make it easier to understand the performance of your videos, you can now see in the Video indexing report the number of daily video impressions over time. The impressions are aggregated by page, meaning that if the same page appears multiple times in a single search result page (or a single Discover session), Google considers each appearance as an impression.

The Search performance report groups video search appearances by property, not URL, which means that if multiple pages show in search results, this is counted as one impression. As a result, the Search performance report can show lower impression counts than the Video page indexing report.

Sitemap filter

To help you focus on the video pages that matter most to you, you can now filter the Video indexing report to show only video pages in a selected sitemap. The filter applies to all the report features: the chart, chart totals, issue list, and exports.

These additions should help even more when monitoring and fixing how your videos perform on Search.

----------------------Originally posted by Moshe Samet, Search Console Product Manager.

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