I've always had a not-so-good experience with Google's Search Console.
I get it - they're trying to ensure that web content is meaningful.
I get it, but damn, every single page object appears to have arcane criteria, otherwise Google will not crawl the page.
This is problematic for me, because I don't want to end up being a slave to the process of having Google process my website because, in my opinion, they go overboard with things.
For example, there's a 40% chance that I'll include an embedded video when I submit a new post to my Wordpress-powered web page. I've always wondered why my videos aren't being indexed by Google. I'm now discovering that the videos won't be processed if they don't reside on a "watch page". A blog post that reviews an embedded video will not be indexed because the video is complementary to the rest of the content on the page. This means that I've to create a dedicate video landing page. WTF.
That's one of many examples. I've a large batch of pages that aren't being indexed because of the ridiculous criteria that Google requires.
The act of creating a video landing page within Wordpress isn't difficult. Me having to walk backward to obtain all the posts that contain embedded videos so that I can add them to a watch page -- that's a lot of work. And then what? Do I have to make the prior posts with embedded videos link to the newly built landing page's videos?
Bureaucracy overkill, that's what this is.
What I'll do is create the new watch page and add a few videos a day. Maybe I'll be done in 6 months? I'm certainly not going to let this overburden me.
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