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Skyey
Skyey

Reputation: 39

Snippet in Google Search contains "An error occurred. Try watching this video on www.youtube.com", but I don't have any video

Why do i get this message when I try to search my website with google? image

I don't have any kind of video on my index page.... All I have is login form logo and registration form and <h1> and <p>

My meta says:

<meta name="description" content="DigyBridg free social website">
    <meta name="keywords" content="Fun, people, photos, videos, statuses, links, db, dbp, digybridg, digy, bridg">
    <meta name="author" content="Sasa Orasanin">

Why is my main title link An error occurred? And same with this for video under that.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 974

Answers (1)

J Griffiths
J Griffiths

Reputation: 729

I have just run into this issue myself, and found the cause:

If you embed a YouTube video, using an iframe, and inspect the source of the iframe, you will see a section like this:

<noscript>

    <div class="player-unavailable">
        <h1 class="message">An error occurred.</h1>
    </div>

    [...]
</noscript>

Since Google doesn't always use the text in the <title> tag you supply, and since that error message is within an <h1>, I think Google is promoting YouTube's error message into the title, because unlike most browsers, it takes the <noscript> section into account.

To fix this, I'd suggest including the iframe using JavaScript only- this has the downside of hiding the video completely from visitors without JavaScript, but prevents the <noscript> section from being served.

(I'm not 100% sure this would work though, as Googlebot may well be sophisticated enough to take some JavaScript page manipulation into account these days.)

Another alternative may be to craft a more appropriate page title, which Google will be less inclined to alter.

Upvotes: 0

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