Video

[BatteryTrader]

Hi
Looking to find my way around Video, would like to do some install guides for some of our products.

Now, I really do not have any experience with this. although do find myself looking at youtube ones when looking how to do something, so I probaly should know more than I do.

First question, should I be looking at only Hosting these videos on our own server for display on our site, that perhaps get picked up on Google. Or Host them on youtube, and some how make them also viewable on the site, perhaps in a window.

The purpose of the videos would probably be relative to the product page itself, but the thought of them getting a boost in being searched on YouTube does seem attractive, but I'm unsure of the downside to this, as there is always one.

Secondly, can not seem to find an addon for Videos, would have thought they would be popular. I run a tabbed product page, and was thinking about maybe having Video as one of the tabs, also things like scheema, feel sure that there would be a list of some sort.

David

[burt]

100% upload to Youtube. It is exactly the Tool you need.

Ensure the name and description at YT are good, and include links to your site and relevant product page.
People will find your site and products via Youtube.

Technically at YT;

YT will give you a shareable link.

Technically at your Shop;

1. a way in admin to attach this embed link to product
- a simple hook will suffice

2. a way in the shop to show whatever video is attached to the product
- could be product_info module, pi module or a tab module as you suggest.

If you wanted more than one video per product, it would be a little more complicated, but not overly so.

[BatteryTrader]

Thanks Gary, that will point me in right direction.

One point that I think I might have just found out, might help someone else

I have 1 old video, must be at least 15 years old, it was always in google search consule, cant remember if I had a Popup window for it before I switched over to Pheonix 1.1.00+

Have it now embedded on the page, and google no longer lists it as its not in its own page, states "Video isnt on a watch Page" which seems to indicate to me that there is other information on the page that is not directly related to the video, so I assume it must be a popup page of some sort for it to make google happy.

[BrockleyJohn]

Search console's video indexing report only lists pages whose main purpose is to show the video. So videos that are embedded in a product page aren't typically indexed.

Being indexed here can get your video pages listed on the google search options Videos and Short videos.

Your youtube video itself might be indexed, especially if you give it a good description, but it won't show in search console because it's not on your site. Make sure your youtube account links back to the site. This is the first bit of optimisation to do.

If you want videos indexing on your site, you need another kind of page whose main content is the video and then it links back to products or categories that are relevant and in addition to the video the page also needs descriptive content. This would be done in addition to embedding on the product page and is clearly a lot more work!

[MyGamesShop]

I use in the product description: (Its a good compromise for small devices and large screens)

<div><iframe title="Sleeping Queens Promo Teaser" src="../video/759751002305.mp4" width="560" height="315" frameborder="2" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div>

for mine but google has other ideas as it like videos externally hosted.

If you want to host your own videos like U-Tube in a CNAME to your site to get around Google's markdown try AVIDEO its open source like Phoenix, its completely over kill but is freekin awesome..https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo

Just sayin.

I would be nice if one could be made for Burts [Tab] descriptions or Burts [Tags] or Rawia's related product addon to allow videos first the in relations. Hahahah but whom I kidding just sly suggestions.

[burt]

would be nice if one could be made for Burts [Tab] descriptions

Already done and in use

[BatteryTrader]

Hello

I can confirm that Burt created a back end for us to use on our website to host the videos.

So far, we have 30/40 videos. They are linked to in the TAB system on the product pages if they are relevant to that particular product page, so in effect, hundreds of times the base number of videos.

Quite often, we will even send a link to one of our videos in an email to explain how to do something; most of our videos are how-to.

We create the videos using cheap equipment, which was a mobile phone, but now use an OSBOT Meet 2 camera, which I think was about £100.

All editing is done on our own laptops using DaVinci Resolve, the free edition. If we want to video the website, then we use OBS Studio, again free.

Set up a YouTube business account to host them on, which is free.

Now was certainly a learning curve, and each video takes quite a few hours to make, but the clients love them, and we have definitely made sales on the back of them. Cost-wise, £100 for the camera, which is not needed but easier, plus some software development with Burt, not a lot. But certainly a lot of time making the videos, and each one is better than the previous one.

Don't think I had ever been on YouTube before this. I certainly watched a few videos on how to fix something when I searched on Google, but that's it.

Let me say, that all you people reading this, its only on something like phoenix that you could adapt the shopping cart to your needs and requirements, Now the help is there if you ask, I think the recent CoOp, which is a sort of club, is a £10 a month, its pennies, gives you access not only to other ideas, but the people who make it happen.

I make a living from my Phoenix website because I put time, energy, and some resources into it. If you are using Phoenix, you will get the best from it if you contribute, either by making code, which I cannot, or join the coop and spend a tenner a month.

Regards