Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Videos from the Web Showing in the Knowledge Panel
Sergey Alakov (a Toronto SEO that spends way too much time looking at local search results 🙂 ) spotted a mobile search result where videos from around the web are showing as integral part of the Local Knowledge Panel.
The videos are presented in a carousel format that allows the user to scroll to see 9 videos. And while in theory they are “videos from the web” in classic Google “keep em in the sandbox” fashion they are in fact videos from Youtube.  Humberview VW, where you can see the videos in their mobile Knowledge Panel, does have a YouTube Channel associated with their Local Google+ Page.
Obviously if this is more than just a test, it’s one more reason that a solid YouTube channel for your Local page makes all kinds of sense.
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Makes sense actually that the vids are from their YouTube channel. G sees the connected YT channel to a G+ page as a quality signal and of course as a trusted source.
looks like this is still testing – it’s only pulling on a VERY small number of dealers (we’re testing ones who have YT linked to GMB), and it’s only pulling on certain queries (adding city/state abbreviation is causing it to show or not show in some queries)
definitely keeping an eye on this to see what happens…
@Greg @Mike In your tests did you see whether it’s only showing only for dealers who use their name in video titles?
In the case of Humberview VW the video block is displayed for “humberviewvw” (for me) and “Humberview VW” (for Mike), but not “Humberview Volkswagen”, and as you can see they use “Humberview VW” in the videos.
Sergey it’s entirely possible that it is working like reviews from the web based on a search and name match
That’s what I’m thinking. Attached YouTube channel might not even be a factor.
@Ben
Yes it does make sense and it finally gives a connected channel better exposure
@Greg
Thanks for the update… I assumed it was a test but its hard to tell these days as even features come and go pretty quickly. 🙂
Criminy. Something ELSE to add to the list.
Geeze, Sergey sees like every test Google does. I want his account lol.
This is cool, thanks for keeping us updated Mike.
I want your TC account:) Let’s swap?:)
@Sergey Joy guards that as it holds the keys to the kingdom….
@Joy its just that he spends 4 hours a day looking at search results… its the brute force method. 🙂
@Mike you are not too far from the truth:)
I spend 15 minutes a day specifically looking for tests/changes. It’s part of my daily routine now.
As turned out, you can run a lot of queries in 15 minutes:)
Anyone see this outside of an auto dealership? Restaurant or tourism?
It has been spotted on video games. As I noted above it appears that brands might have a different treatment depending on the industry. If as Sergey and I speculate, it could be predicated on a match between the brand search and the titles of the videos. But so far no one has seen outside of auto…
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