It’s pretty nifty when you can bring content from other sites and sources into your site, but it’s not just a free ticket! You’ve got some implications for your users and even your SEO to consider!
A Deep Dive into the Technical SEO Aspect of Embeded Content
- Media/Content players and widgets, how do they embed? Where, and the features within their share popups?
- Do you have embedded stores on Facebook, Twitter, Medium, Tumblr for Shopify?
- How do they appear in RSS feeds?
- On which RSS readers? What alt images/links?
- How are those shared directly from the embed?
- Do they provide link options? Embedded would include players/widgets, how they embed, where, and the features within their share popups. Maybe also the content of any feeds for ecommerce, podcasts, blog rss etc “syndicated links”
- You (or even an affiliate or customer) embed a video or dynamic store widget in a blog post using oembed, or pasting the code.
- What happens in the RSS feed?
- What appears in RSS when in a reader?
- What appears in email with RSS > email What happens with the same link on other sites?
Example of Tricky Embed Code
This is old embed code Before HTML5 was universally supported Youtube had just switched to Iframe embeds Facebook only supported Flash embeds. Twitter cards didn’t exist yet, but the embed code could build links to any site:
Imagine 100 affiliates for a store posting a widget that allows for a transaction directly on their blog page using ShopPay in 1 click.
Do the same on Facebook, Twitter, Medium, Tumblr In RSS/Email there is guaranteed at least a thumb + link, even if iframe blocked.
How is this Technical SEO?
A shop owner might fill in 1 field for where a blog post or landing page announced the new product.
Everything else… code, widget interface, shop interface and affiliate system is all very technical. Systems that build links and sales
When you’re embedding content onto your site, it’s not just set and forget!