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Supported video hosting platforms for Video SEO plugin

Supported video hosting platforms for Video SEO plugin

The following video hosting platforms have been proven to be possible to optimize with the Yoast Video SEO plugin. This means that if you host your video』s on any of these sites and use the video SEO module, your site should start showing video snippets in the search results.

Do you have a different question regarding the Video SEO plugin? Check our Video SEO FAQ.

Video HostEmbed methodDailymotionoEmbedFlickroEmbedMetacafeShortcodeScreenroEmbed, shortcodeVeohShortcodeViddleroEmbed, shortcodeVideoPress (incl. WordPress.tv)oEmbed, shortcodeVimeo *oEmbed, shortcode, object embed, iframe embedVippyShortcodeVzaarShortcode, object embed, iframe embedWistia **oEmbedYouTube ***oEmbed, shortcode, object embed, iframe embed

* Some Vimeo videos may not be detected due to privacy settings. ** oEmbed support for Wistia is added by this plugin too, as it』s not in WordPress core. *** Youtube currently works, but the way it works might be shut down by Google at some point.

What platform does Yoast recommend to use?

We recommend Wistia, Vimeo, Blip or Dailymotion. This guide explains more about why: Would you recommend using YouTube for Video SEO purposes?

How to add an external sitemap to the index

How to add an external sitemap to the index

Our Yoast SEO plugin creates sitemaps on the fly for the content within WordPress. In some cases, you may have sitemaps for other parts of your site that you want to add to our sitemap index.

For this purpose, we introduced the wpseo_sitemap_index filter. You will find an example of how to use the filter here.

The last mod date is hardcoded so it would not update automatically with this code. If you would like to update the last mod automatically we suggest developing on the plugin or hiring someone. We highly recommend checking out Code Poet, or one of the Yoast partners, for available freelance WordPress developers.

In addition to the Yoast SEO plugin, we have several other WordPress plugins that optimize specific aspects of your site, like video.

Troubleshooting

If posts fail to appear on the external sitemap try to disable and re-enable the sitemaps using this guide.Clear all your caching from all your plugins, themes, and hosting such as server caching Add rules for common caching plugins to exclude sitemaps from caching using this guide.Disable the transient sitemap caching using this guide.

What to do when Facebook sharing is not working correctly

What to do when Facebook sharing is not working correctly

There are a number of reasons that sharing on Facebook fails to display correctly. Facebook』s debug tool will provide you with a lot of information that might help narrow down the issue and allows you to flush Facebook』s cache for a specific page to ensure Facebook sees the most current metadata.

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Social media optimization with Yoast SEO

If you』ve updated your social settings or metadata for an article and aren』t getting the right details in Facebook yet, you might need to force update Facebook』s cache of that page. To do that, go to the Facebook debug tool, enter the URL you wish to update and click scrape again. Go to Facebook』s Sharing Debugger. Enter the URL you wish to update. Click 『Debug』.  Click 『Scrape Again』. Under 『When and how we last scraped the URL」, click 『Scrape Again』. Look at the updated 『Link Preview』. If this is correct, you』re done.If not, check the 『Warnings That Should Be Fixed』 section for any errors. Fix errors and repeat these steps.If there are no warnings to be fixed, click on 『Show All Raw Tags』 to review the actual information Facebook received. If the tags are incorrect, run a conflict check.

How to push updates from a staging site to a live site

How to push updates from a staging site to a live site

If you want to make big changes on your site, you should test these first using a staging environment. This is a copy of your site on your server that allows you to test the changes without affecting your live site. In this article, we』ll explain how to push updates from your staging environment to a live site.

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Pushing changes to a live site

There are lots of popular hosting or plugin solutions for staging environments. Although pushing changes from staging to a live site will be relatively similar in all of them, it might look slightly different depending on the solution you are using. In this article, we』ll use the plugin WP Staging as an example.

Make a backup of your staging site and live site. First of all, make sure you backup your staging site and your live site. Read more about backing up your site. Start the process of pushing changes to your live site (example: WP Staging). After backing up your site, it』s time to push the database data from your staging environment to your live site. We』ll use the WP Staging plugin as an example to show you how this works. Go to your live site and click WP Staging > Sites / Start. Select the staging site you want to move over to the live site and click Push Changes. Select the data you want to push to your live site (example: WP Staging). The WP Staging plugin allows you to select the data you want to push to your live site. Any selected table or file will overwrite its equal on the live site completely. Push to live site (example: WP Staging). Click the button Push to Live Site to start deploying the changes to your live site. You』ll see a green notification when it』s finished. Reload your website. Reload your website to see the changes you made on your live site.

How to disable the 『Text Link Counter』 feature

How to disable the 『Text Link Counter』 feature

The text link counter helps you keep track of the internal and outbound links in your texts. Links help crawlers find your posts and pages and figure out the structure of your site. Your visitors also use links to navigate your content. The text link counter feature is automatically enabled in Yoast SEO. You find it in the Posts overview screen. If, for some reason, you want to turn this feature off, follow the steps below. Log in to your WordPress website. When you』re logged in, you will be in your 『Dashboard』. Click on 『SEO』. On the left-hand side, you will see a menu. In that menu, click on 『SEO』. Click on 『General』. The 『SEO』 settings will expand providing you additional options. Click on 『General』. Click on the 『Features』 tab.  Toggle the 『Text link counter』 switch. To enable the feature, toggle the switch to 『On』.To disable the feature, toggle the switch to 『Off』. Click 『Save Changes』.

Sitemap error: Missing XML tag

Sitemap error: Missing XML tag

A sitemap is a page on your website that leads search engines to important pages on your site. One of the functionalities of the Yoast SEO plugin is that it allows you to easily add a sitemap to your website. In this article, we』ll discuss a common XML sitemap error in detail. Are you seeing the following sitemap error?

This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit.

This error appears when the sitemap contains zero items. To solve this, you should create content for the sitemap. However, if you know you have made content you should clear/flush your cache from your website, plugins, theme, server et cetera.

Are you getting a different error? Check out this article on common XML sitemap errors to see more errors, their causes, and their solutions.

This commonly happens with the News SEO sitemap when a site has not published a news article within the last two days. It may also appear with the Video SEO sitemap if no videos have been made.