Google Video Structured Data Help Document Gets A Big Update

Lizzi Harvey from Google announced on Twitter that the video structured data doc got a big refresh. I took a quick look and yes, it is so much better. Google added More screenshots, how to mark timestamps on YouTube videos, how monitor your video performance with Search Console, the live badge docs are now merged with main video docs and so much more.

✒️The Google video structured data doc got a big refresh✒️
- More screenshots!
- How to mark timestamps on YouTube videos
- Monitor your video performance w/ Search Console
- LIVE badge docs are now merged w/ main video docs (all in one place)https://t.co/Mrmt0koWEO pic.twitter.com/tumi0zE2tL

— Lizzi Harvey (@LizziHarvey) November 14, 2019

I've been playing around with timestamps in YouTube videos and I even asked John Mueller about this and he didn't give me a full answer. But Lizzi posted on Twitter "If your video is on YouTube, no need to do markup. You can put timestamp info in the YouTube video description." She even gave these tips:

If your video is on YouTube, no need to do markup. You can put timestamp info in the YouTube video description. Some tips:
- List the timestamps in chronological order
- Put each timestamp/label pair on a new line
- Link the timestamp to the specified point in the video pic.twitter.com/v9f2GU1Fjo

— Lizzi Harvey (@LizziHarvey) November 14, 2019

The Live badge for video streaming:

Is your video streaming live? You can get a LIVE badge shown on your video by embedding BroadcastEvent in your VideoObject. Also, use the Indexing API to make sure Google finds your live-stream video on time. pic.twitter.com/Sd9SAdpuU9

— Lizzi Harvey (@LizziHarvey) November 14, 2019

And the updates to Search Console for the video reports that came out recently.

Remember when the video report was announced? Well, now the docs have info on how to monitor your videos in Search Console.
- Performance Report: See how your videos appear in Search & Discover
- Rich result status report: Troubleshoot rich result errors pic.twitter.com/CvMKsAZTPO

— Lizzi Harvey (@LizziHarvey) November 14, 2019

Check out the new docs and I hope for myself that I can get my videos to see key moments feature.

Forum discussion at Twitter.