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  • June 8, 2016 at 7:04 pm #1032840
    Simon Wells
    Participant

    Hi there,

    For SEO reasons, I’d like to use oembeds for the video content on our site rather than iframes which are still difficult to get indexed. Even Yoast requires oembeds for video SEO. However, I can’t find a way to make oembeds work with Cornerstone. Is there a Cornerstone element, a shortcode or a workaround to get this? Or is there another way to make video embeds indexable without giving up the Cornerstone building facility? Thanks.

    June 8, 2016 at 11:50 pm #1033366
    Rupok
    Member

    Hi there,

    Thanks for writing in! You can try using the RAW Content element.

    Cheers!

    June 9, 2016 at 2:21 am #1033539
    Simon Wells
    Participant

    Hi there, yes, I tried the Raw Content element but when I pasted the video url there, it didn’t call the video, it simply displayed the url on the front end. Are there any instructions anywhere for how to use the Raw Content element to make oembeds?

    Thanks.

    June 9, 2016 at 2:39 am #1033562
    Rue Nel
    Moderator

    Hello Again,

    Please try to use the embed shortcode:

    
[embed]http://www.your-video-url.here[/embed]

    Hope this helps.

    June 9, 2016 at 3:45 am #1033655
    Simon Wells
    Participant

    Yay! That’s great! It’s playing in the Raw Content element. However, the Raw Content element seems to have become an iframe. Is this a function of the [embed][/embed] shortcode? And will it be crawlable by Google? If Google can index this, the problem now is working out how to make the player fit the element (or the element default to the same height as the player). It’s got big black bands top and bottom of the player that are messing up the page layout. I’ll send you my credentials if you’ve got a moment to take a look. Thanks.

    June 9, 2016 at 3:51 am #1033665
    Simon Wells
    Participant
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    June 9, 2016 at 5:27 am #1033777
    Christian
    Moderator

    Hey Simon,

    Please use the Embedded Video element for Youtube or Vimeo videos or the Video Player element for videos hosted on your site. That is so your videos will be responsive. We cannot guarantee the videos to be responsive using other methods.

    Google will still see the videos in your site even if it is not powered by oEmbed.

    The WordPress shortcode will convert Youtube videos to an iframe or Youtube embed. Please see the links below for more details.

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Embed_Shortcode
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

    If you need advanced Video SEO controls, you will need to use a plugin like Video SEO by Yoast.

    Thanks.

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