How to get Youtube videos to show up with rich snippets.

[whitetable]

Most of our SERPS are ranking, but video is not. We use Youtube for hosting and I am wondering if Google/Youtube somehow block video rich snippets from ranking when hosted through Youtube? Is there a better hosting service or should we host the video ourselves in order to get these videos to show up?  Does

[BlueCorona]

Hi Jeff!

Form personal experience, we've seen out company's and clients' videos rank better with the YouTube URL than through their URL on personal websites. Like Linda said, YouTube has a very high domain authority and because of this, is more likely to rank at the top of organic listings than if the video was hosted through your site.

Check out this Moz article (and video!) for some more information: https://moz.com/blog/video-seo-post-rich-snippets

Let me know if you have any other questions!

[Linda-Vassily]

Our videos hosted on YouTube rank for their YouTube URL, not their URL on our website, when I search by the video title —YouTube is a high authority domain. [And actually they are original content on YouTube—I have to have them there before I can have them on my site, so they have that on their side as well.]

I also have some videos on Wistia (which we pay for) and our website, not Wistia, ranks for those.