: Will search engines index content in video caption files? If I put an HTML5 video player on a web page and it has an associated caption file (WebVTT) using the <track> tag inside the

If I put an HTML5 video player on a web page and it has an associated caption file (WebVTT) using the <track> tag inside the <video> tag, will it affect my search results in a positive way?

I am trying to avoid putting the transcript of the video on the page inside a hidden element (I am not an SEO expert but I have heard that hiding text with display:none; or visibility:hidden is not a good idea).

TL;DR: Will search engines index the contents of a video caption file?

10.01% popularity Vote Up Vote Down

: Is it worthwhile to choose a less attractive domain name to get the .com extension? I have to purchase a second level domain and choosing the name for my website, which is basically a comic

@Shakeerah822

Posted in: #Blog #DomainExtension #Ecommerce #TopLevelDomains

0 Comments

: How to allow customers their own subdomain address to our web app? We have a webapp and companies can customize the look and feel. Now we'd like them to be able to make the app part of

@Shakeerah822

Posted in: #Cname #Dns #Domains #Subdomain

1 Comments

: "Developed by" links from adult sites I have got a good amount of clients with adult content. My competition with high authority has got thousands of links from the websites they have developed

@Shakeerah822

Posted in: #AdultContent #Backlinks

2 Comments

: How to get Google to display the published date of blog post in the search results? I'd like to display the published date of the posting that I made in the Google search results? Example:

@Shakeerah822

Posted in: #Dates #GoogleSearch #Serps #StructuredData

3 Comments

Login to post a comment!

1 Comments

Sorted by latest first Latest Oldest Best

@Berumen354

Contrary to what has been commented by @Simon Hayter Google policies state that hiding content from end users for SEO purposes (such as adding the transcript the way you are talking about) is a violation and will negatively impact your SERP rankings. having said that there is no problem with adding an expandable div which the user can open themselves which has the transcript within it. In this way you are complying with Google terms as the user can still view the transcript if they should choose.

10% popularity Vote Up Vote Down

Feed

: Will search engines index content in video caption files? If I put an HTML5 video player on a web page and it has an associated caption file (WebVTT) using the <track> tag inside the

More posts by @Shakeerah822

: Is it worthwhile to choose a less attractive domain name to get the .com extension? I have to purchase a second level domain and choosing the name for my website, which is basically a comic

: How to allow customers their own subdomain address to our web app? We have a webapp and companies can customize the look and feel. Now we'd like them to be able to make the app part of

: "Developed by" links from adult sites I have got a good amount of clients with adult content. My competition with high authority has got thousands of links from the websites they have developed

: How to get Google to display the published date of blog post in the search results? I'd like to display the published date of the posting that I made in the Google search results? Example:

Login to post a comment!

1 Comments

Back to top | Use Dark Theme