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We Canadians FINALLY have access to Gemini (formerly Bard). I just found out by trying a VPN connection and then without a VPN, and it worked!
Anyway, I'm happy I can
Denis, i was wondering the same. I downloaded Gemini app on my iPhone. I soon saw that this is not a free app.
I don't use much except when I hit my capacity cap for GPT, lol. I have been going with CoPilot as well :)
I find ChatGPT4 gives me everything I need ($20 a month), but would be interested in hearing others' experiences.
I wrote a new 30 page book, 5 chapters and illustrated as a Lead Magnet yesterday with ChatGPT4's help. In less than half a day,
Did almost the same, but not the same niche. I'm debating if I'm going to post it on gumroad😉
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Gemini advanced, is it worth the extra money?
We Canadians FINALLY have access to Gemini (formerly Bard). I just found out by trying a VPN connection and then without a VPN, and it worked!
Anyway, I'm happy I can
Hi Denis
I find that the free Gemini is more than sufficient for my needs, which I find useful when ChatGPT4 won't give me exactly what I'm looking for, namely more in-depth info.
I have over a dozen GPTs in ChatGPT4 that I created and tweaked to my liking, so it's my go-to for nearly everything I do these days.
Rock On! 🤘
Frank 🎸
Denis, i was wondering the same. I downloaded Gemini app on my iPhone. I soon saw that this is not a free app.
I don't use much except when I hit my capacity cap for GPT, lol. I have been going with CoPilot as well :)
I find ChatGPT4 gives me everything I need ($20 a month), but would be interested in hearing others' experiences.
I wrote a new 30 page book, 5 chapters and illustrated as a Lead Magnet yesterday with ChatGPT4's help. In less than half a day,
Did almost the same, but not the same niche. I'm debating if I'm going to post it on gumroad😉
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I have a bunch of URLs (37 in Total) in the GSC that are part of a list that has this error message: "Video outside the viewport. The videos on these pages aren’t indexed
i had this and after looking at my mobile view the video did extend outside the width...
i experimented with changing hte width value from a fixed one to a vw - viewwidth- one ...
i changed it to 100%vw and said it was fixed ...
google in google time said it was now ok...
so maybe worth going back through the vids and editing the width factor...
it is not about indexing hte videos - it was more about the viewer experience for me...
I concur, GSC has been the bain of my life but, like you I've researched and applied different strategies. The battle goes on..
Hi Denis
The "Outside the viewport" error simply means that Google wants at least one of the videos on your article above the fold, preferably the one it thinks is most helpful since Google will only rank on video per post.
I have a theory about why this has suddenly become an issue. Google owns YouTube and wants people to bounce off your page as soon as possible by having them click on a related video after they watch one of yours.
If you made the video on your monetized YouTube channel, then you're making ad money, which is a good thing. However, if it's someone else's video and the visitor bounces off your page to YouTube, then it could cost you money in display ads, affiliate links, etc.
That's coming from the mind of a Rock N'Roll guitar player, so take it with a grain of salt. Lol 😎
I've also had the Google "Video is too wide" error. I fixed this by changing the width of the video in the HTML embed code. However, you should keep the video aspect ratio the same, or it may not play or it may look distorted.
For example, the iframe dimensions for my video were 560 x 315. I changed it to 500 x 281, which keeps the aspect ratio the same.
Rock On! 🤘
Frank 🎸
I was away for a while, and when I came back, I suddenly had this bunch of URLs that had that error!
Since I do not own the videos, screw it!!
I'm not changing a thing and not even going to acknowledge the error or "validate a fix".
What is even more frustrating is that these videos are identical to hundreds of other videos that are also embedded but have nothing wrong with them!
I'm getting very "annoyed" (Not to write what I really want to say out loud) by all these Google UNHELPFUL updates!!!
Hi Denis
I hope you had some fun while you were away.
I don't really see anything helpful in what Google has done in my guitar niche. They added more paid ads, videos, and user-generated content (forums) to page one. A lot of the affiliate posts now have very thin content but a fairly high domain rating.
It pushed about 50% of my posts that were ranking on page one to page two, which I will try to improve sometime in the next two weeks.
Try not to let Google get to you. Eventually, everything will settle out, and we can go from there.
In the meantime, I'm looking for different traffic sources, which is always a good idea. 😎
Frank 🎸
Yeah, can't poke the bear kinda thing. Google can do whatever they want because they can. All we can do as you said is keep on pushing forward. Rock on Frank 🎸🤟
This has nothing to do with who owns the videos. At the same time, I don´t know what is going on as I get it regularly too, not many but takes time, and no common sense behind it.
Even not in the Google guide!
What I had done is that I just change videos and then it is always good. But the problem with it is that there are a few things that take more time for me than finding info video on the side with my keywords but in enough connection!
Agreed, technically speaking, but if someone is bouncing off your site to videos that are not yours, then you could be losing income.
I know, it is right. But I believe that a little part goes to YouTube to see it there. All videos I use are info only, which helps too.
But Partha has found out of this and in short; if it is not your video, no nothing. If it is yours you need to fix it.
oh my, I have so many videos on both websites, impossible to go over and adapt each one that GSC says needs to be done (so much time would that be). At the moment, I honestly don't care anymore about googles SEO, will be focussing on social media now since the last update ;-)
But thanks for the info!
so true, after looking for the posts that lost the most traffic and googling the keyword, I have noticed websites ranking above me that are really sh**ty and worthless with thin content and just 'buy here" links.
I see you posted this about 2 weeks ago, in the meantime it hasn't improved at all!
Like so many others, I now focus on social media, as this is the third time this happened.
Lizzy
In my experience with this problem is to move your video further up your post. If, issue continues try reducing the size of the video frame.
I am at war with google as well.
Leave it as it is, although you might want to click the refresh button on your phone just to make sure that it does load and nothing has happened since the last time you viewed your website.
Regards
Brian
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I have a bunch of URLs (37 in Total) in the GSC that are part of a list that has this error message: "Video outside the viewport. The videos on these pages aren’t indexed
i had this and after looking at my mobile view the video did extend outside the width...
i experimented with changing hte width value from a fixed one to a vw - viewwidth- one ...
i changed it to 100%vw and said it was fixed ...
google in google time said it was now ok...
so maybe worth going back through the vids and editing the width factor...
it is not about indexing hte videos - it was more about the viewer experience for me...
I concur, GSC has been the bain of my life but, like you I've researched and applied different strategies. The battle goes on..
Hi Denis
The "Outside the viewport" error simply means that Google wants at least one of the videos on your article above the fold, preferably the one it thinks is most helpful since Google will only rank on video per post.
I have a theory about why this has suddenly become an issue. Google owns YouTube and wants people to bounce off your page as soon as possible by having them click on a related video after they watch one of yours.
If you made the video on your monetized YouTube channel, then you're making ad money, which is a good thing. However, if it's someone else's video and the visitor bounces off your page to YouTube, then it could cost you money in display ads, affiliate links, etc.
That's coming from the mind of a Rock N'Roll guitar player, so take it with a grain of salt. Lol 😎
I've also had the Google "Video is too wide" error. I fixed this by changing the width of the video in the HTML embed code. However, you should keep the video aspect ratio the same, or it may not play or it may look distorted.
For example, the iframe dimensions for my video were 560 x 315. I changed it to 500 x 281, which keeps the aspect ratio the same.
Rock On! 🤘
Frank 🎸
I was away for a while, and when I came back, I suddenly had this bunch of URLs that had that error!
Since I do not own the videos, screw it!!
I'm not changing a thing and not even going to acknowledge the error or "validate a fix".
What is even more frustrating is that these videos are identical to hundreds of other videos that are also embedded but have nothing wrong with them!
I'm getting very "annoyed" (Not to write what I really want to say out loud) by all these Google UNHELPFUL updates!!!
Hi Denis
I hope you had some fun while you were away.
I don't really see anything helpful in what Google has done in my guitar niche. They added more paid ads, videos, and user-generated content (forums) to page one. A lot of the affiliate posts now have very thin content but a fairly high domain rating.
It pushed about 50% of my posts that were ranking on page one to page two, which I will try to improve sometime in the next two weeks.
Try not to let Google get to you. Eventually, everything will settle out, and we can go from there.
In the meantime, I'm looking for different traffic sources, which is always a good idea. 😎
Frank 🎸
Yeah, can't poke the bear kinda thing. Google can do whatever they want because they can. All we can do as you said is keep on pushing forward. Rock on Frank 🎸🤟
This has nothing to do with who owns the videos. At the same time, I don´t know what is going on as I get it regularly too, not many but takes time, and no common sense behind it.
Even not in the Google guide!
What I had done is that I just change videos and then it is always good. But the problem with it is that there are a few things that take more time for me than finding info video on the side with my keywords but in enough connection!
Agreed, technically speaking, but if someone is bouncing off your site to videos that are not yours, then you could be losing income.
I know, it is right. But I believe that a little part goes to YouTube to see it there. All videos I use are info only, which helps too.
But Partha has found out of this and in short; if it is not your video, no nothing. If it is yours you need to fix it.
oh my, I have so many videos on both websites, impossible to go over and adapt each one that GSC says needs to be done (so much time would that be). At the moment, I honestly don't care anymore about googles SEO, will be focussing on social media now since the last update ;-)
But thanks for the info!
so true, after looking for the posts that lost the most traffic and googling the keyword, I have noticed websites ranking above me that are really sh**ty and worthless with thin content and just 'buy here" links.
I see you posted this about 2 weeks ago, in the meantime it hasn't improved at all!
Like so many others, I now focus on social media, as this is the third time this happened.
Lizzy
In my experience with this problem is to move your video further up your post. If, issue continues try reducing the size of the video frame.
I am at war with google as well.
Leave it as it is, although you might want to click the refresh button on your phone just to make sure that it does load and nothing has happened since the last time you viewed your website.
Regards
Brian
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I wonder if it's just me, but there used to be an "i" that I would click in the Wordpress Dashboard menu that would give me the word count, but since the last update, I can`t f
Hi, Denis
Yeah, it's now in the "Document Overview" icon under the "Outline" tab.
There's also a "time to read" metric. Was that always there? I never noticed it before. Lol, if it's doesn't look like a guitar, I'm liable to miss it. 😎
Have a Rockin' Saturday! 🤘
Frank 🎸
They moved it to another spot refer image below.
When You go to your post and click the Three lines in document overview then choose outline and your word count is shown there
I found it, but they have hidden it deep enough so no one knows where it is anymore. Why hide it that far? They will get my opinion on it! Dont change what`s not broken kind of thing if you ask me LOL
Yeah this really annoyed me - I hadn't figured it out either so I'm glad you asked the question. I loved that little "i" icon it was nice & easy.
I have a feeling, for some reason, they're trying to make this new editor as bad and as clunky as possible. LOL :(
I know mate, seen it - cheers. I meant I was glad it got asked because of the helpful answers (yours), lol :)
No prob Dale it is a valid question and glad others know about it
Cheers enjoy your weekend as well my Sat is over now 12.10am Sunday
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I wonder if it's just me, but there used to be an "i" that I would click in the Wordpress Dashboard menu that would give me the word count, but since the last update, I can`t f
Hi, Denis
Yeah, it's now in the "Document Overview" icon under the "Outline" tab.
There's also a "time to read" metric. Was that always there? I never noticed it before. Lol, if it's doesn't look like a guitar, I'm liable to miss it. 😎
Have a Rockin' Saturday! 🤘
Frank 🎸
They moved it to another spot refer image below.
When You go to your post and click the Three lines in document overview then choose outline and your word count is shown there
I found it, but they have hidden it deep enough so no one knows where it is anymore. Why hide it that far? They will get my opinion on it! Dont change what`s not broken kind of thing if you ask me LOL
Yeah this really annoyed me - I hadn't figured it out either so I'm glad you asked the question. I loved that little "i" icon it was nice & easy.
I have a feeling, for some reason, they're trying to make this new editor as bad and as clunky as possible. LOL :(
I know mate, seen it - cheers. I meant I was glad it got asked because of the helpful answers (yours), lol :)
No prob Dale it is a valid question and glad others know about it
Cheers enjoy your weekend as well my Sat is over now 12.10am Sunday
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Hi Denis
I find that the free Gemini is more than sufficient for my needs, which I find useful when ChatGPT4 won't give me exactly what I'm looking for, namely more in-depth info.
I have over a dozen GPTs in ChatGPT4 that I created and tweaked to my liking, so it's my go-to for nearly everything I do these days.
Rock On! 🤘
Frank 🎸