Use stable URLs for video and thumbnail files

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upported video codecs
Google can ingest the following video file types: 3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DivX, M2V, M3U, M3U8, M4V, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGV, QVT, RAM, RM, VOB, WebM, WMV, and XAP.

Some CDNs use quickly expiring URLs for video and lithuania whatsapp lead thumbnail files. These URLs can prevent Google from successfully indexing your video or prevent Google from fetching the video file. Over time, this can also make it harder for Google to understand whether your video is of interest to users.

Give each video a unique and stable URL. This allows Google to consistently discover and process videos, confirm that they are still accessible, and gather the correct video signals.


If you're concerned about bad actors (such as hackers or spammers) accessing your content, you can verify Googlebot before displaying the stable version of your media URL. For example, you can choose to only serve contentUrl the property to trusted bots like Googlebot, while other clients accessing your pages will not see the field. With this setup, only trusted clients can access the location of your video content files.