Google Video Thumbnail next to standard website listing???

[Jan Jaap]

Dear (Google) SEO experts,

I would hereby like to inform if anyone knows the answer to my question how it is possible that my standard company listing in Google is presented as a Google Video result with a thumbnail of a forest.

I happened to own the domain Forest.com last year however I do not recognize the forest picture and its not hosted on my old domain (publiceren --- net).

Next to the listing it sais "5 sec" and in the url it sais &oi=video_result which makes me believe it is a Google Video Result.

My first thought aprox. 4 months ago was that it was simply a mistake from Google so I let it be, however, the listing is still as it was aprox. 4 months ago as you can see in Google (NL) when searching for the keyword "internet publishing":

Google --- NL ?q=internet+publishing



Is this normal? And if so, how is this possible?

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[alex_d1]

I just did a search for your terms, and found the listing to your site exactly like this on google.com ( http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...net+publishing ).
It does look like the video listings with the thumbnail, but when I clicked on the link, it went to the site - I didn't see anything vide related at all.

Not sure why your listing is coming out like this, but from a positive point of view - your site does stand out from all the others on the page, and did make me click on the link.

[rustybrick]

I see it and that is weird: Try http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=...e+zoeken&meta=

Thanks for pointing that out.

[nutkenz]

That's certainly interesting... Does Google usually classify entire websites or individual pages as video-containers?

[Markz]

Thats a first for me I`ve manages to rank well with a few youtube vids but not seen any on G before. Things are changing...

[tradeya]

sometime google will give credit to trustable sites to get more info in their SERPs. your site might have something they like so they give you something extra.

[iambetterthanu]

I know this post was from the other week but I had to reply

I have had a similar "issue" if that's what you want to call it. I call it luck... My site http://www.iambetterthanu.com Iambetterthanu.com shows up with a video next to it every time.

What I do know is that I did post the video that shows up next to my site. The Video is no longer on my site however and I am not the poster of the video. The only thing I can think of was I was the first to embed the video and therefore the video and the site are linked.

I dont want it to go away EVER but I am curious how it was accomplished.