If last few months Google has mad so many changes in their algorithm. They even have stop rich snippets and Google Authorship that has affected many Bloggers. But Here is an alternative of Google Authorship :
How to Show Video Thumbnails in Google Search Results ?
Alternative to Google Authorship ?
The Best Alternative is to use video thumbnails in Google Search results. This is an easy and small trick to display video thumbnails even if you don't have any video. We have discovered a code for this.
Enable Video Thumbnail in Google Search Without Video in Article :
All you need to do is copy the below code and paste it inside of your blog.
<link href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzuGN9w6xcwreoYLnOzBqY2IAQBfyJ7LI0Jfcn675l3oDe7Ic1xO8OekjAcn4-AfCkox3afNg6ecXFoA1T66wBkj1KDtGYCAcF-Xj7s0TSLM5Fr28_-rULv0orub_Nno4woNYQ230j-CZ/s1600/poster6.png " rel="img_src" type="img/jpeg"/>
<link href="http://eplayer.perfomfeeds.com "rel="video_src"/>
<link href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzuGN9w6xcwreoYLnOzBqY2IAQBfyJ7LI0Jfcn675l3oDe7Ic1xO8OekjAcn4-AfCkox3afNg6ecXFoA1T66wBkj1KDtGYCAcF-Xj7s0TSLM5Fr28_-rULv0orub_Nno4woNYQ230j-CZ/s1600/poster6.png " rel="thumnail" type="img/jpeg"/>
</link href="http:>
Understand the Code :
- You need to replace Image Url with the Image you want to display.
- To understand code all you need to know is about Google micro data and schema.
- Code has rel=”thumnail” and rel=”img_src".
- rel=”video_src” works as dumb code with empty video
- You can post the code to the sidebar.