After uploading a new website with a few videos in it, I received a report from Google Search Console that my videos didn't have thumbnails associated to the videos.
I think this should be a simple update and can be made as a part of the sitemap.
Here's a link to read more about it https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/video#provide-a-high-quality-thumbnail
Noel Braganza
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When we received email from Google Search Console even we didn’t able to solve this until we make below change
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To add a thumbnail for a background video in Advanced Elements in Webflow and fix ‘No Thumbnail URL provided’, you can use the following steps:
Create a new div block and position it over the background video.
Add an image to the div block.
Style the image to look like a thumbnail.
Hide the div block so that the image can’t be seen.
Once the publishing the site, go to Google Search Console **>**Indexing > Video pages and validate the fix.
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time to act
This really needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. I am now getting regular alerts from Google Console telling me that the background video element on a page doesn't have a thumbnail url. So basically, until this gets sorted, using the background video element will affect a page's SEO ranking negatively.
Can't use the Custom attributes to link to a thumbnail image either as Webflow says that the name 'poster' is a reserved name.
Can Webflow fix this so that a thumbnail url can be linked to please.