Google Webmaster error using FV Player recommended manual workflow

Ed Fritz 11 years, 2 months ago

I am setting up my wordpress posts using the format recommended by Foliovision and am now receiving error in google webmaster site.

Please assist,,,thanks a lot, Ed

Foliovision recommendation:
Create /videos/ in the root, so that you do not have to enter entire URL

This is the Shortcode I am using, I am manually entering the code:

[fvplayer src='/videos/13:09:02_Sierra_Needles.mp4' width=900 height=510 splash='/videos/13-09-02_Sierra_Needles.jpg' width=600 height=337]

Google Webmaster Site Map errors being reported:

1

Errors
Invalid URL
This is not a valid URL. Please correct it and resubmit.
2
Sitemap: fritzimages.com/blog/video-sitemap.xml
URL: /videos/13:09:02_Sierra_Needles.mp4
Parent tag: video
Tag: content_loc
94
Sep 3, 2013
Sitemap: fritzimages.com/blog/video-sitemap.xml
URL: /videos/13-09-02_Sierra_Needles.jpg
Parent tag: video
Tag: thumbnail_loc
95
Sep 3, 2013

2

Errors
Missing thumbnail
We’ve detected that one of the URLS in your Sitemap contains a missing or invalid reference to a thumbnail image file. Please ensure that each URL contains <video:thumbnail_loc> element specifying a valid image URL.
1
Sitemap: fritzimages.com/blog/video-sitemap.xml
Parent tag: urlset
Tag: url
102
Sep 3, 2013

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Alec Kinnear 11 years ago

Hi Ed,

We’ll get these issues sorted, thanks for the repot.

Making the web work for you, Alec

Ed Fritz 11 years ago

Hi Alex,

What I did was to try to resolve was to put the entire URL path in. I only
had a few Posts to modify. I’d hate to be someone else with have a lot of
vids up with this pblm. I am monitoring Google webmaster to see if the
error message goes away..

I sent in an earlier forum support message with exact specifics of the
Google site map errors….

Alec Kinnear 11 years ago

Hi Ed,

If the Google sitemap feature requires full paths, that is probably more an issue for that end of the software than for FV Flowplayer. We can use full absolute paths on our end but I’m not sure if people would be very happy about it (requires additional connections) and we’ve had hosting companies complain about absolute paths on internal media.

Creating absolute paths on publish is no problem whatsoever if we can establish that absolute paths won’t create worse problems of their own.

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