Google Search Console issue: “No thumbnail URL provided”

Hello @revived

Thanks for reaching out about the Google Search Console report. Can you share the URL of the page/post reported to have this problem?

We look forward to hearing from you.

Yes, thank you:

https://lesfeldick.net/all-videos/

@revived Thanks for your reply.

As per Google’s documentation here, the error of ‘No thumbnail URL provided’ means the following:

No thumbnail image was specified for this video, and Google was unable to generate one for you. Provide a link to a thumbnail for your video using structured data, a sitemap, or an mRSS file.

If you provided a thumbnail URL using structured data and got this error, check that you are not defining a different thumbnail URL for the same video in an HTML tag. You should provide the same title, thumbnail URL, and video URL in all sources (sitemap, HTML tags, meta tags, and structured data) that describe the same video on the same page.

You can resolve this error by providing a high-quality thumbnail. You can view the ways to do this here.

We also provide a premium add-on plugin that allows for you to configure the video thumbnail among other features. You can read more about the Video SEO plugin here: https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/video-seo/

So would simply adding the following with the actual URL suffice?

<video poster="https://domain.com/posterimage.png">

Hello @revived,

According to Google’s official documentation, it should. Just make sure of the requirements specified there as well:

Supported thumbnail formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, and SVG.

Size: Minimum 60×30 pixels, larger preferred.

Location: The thumbnail file must be accessible by Googlebot. Don’t block the file with robots.txt or a login requirement. Make sure that the file is available at a stable URL.

Transparency: At least 80% of the thumbnail’s pixels must have an alpha (transparency) value greater than 250.

We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.