Implement Open Graph Tags for Audio Content (Podcasts)

[whyisjake]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

No, this is a feature request. Yoast SEO users that podcast would benefit from having open graph tags that include the on page audio content. This could be extended to have transcript and other embedded information to make the pages more relevant for search engines.

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be nice to see part of the post meta block a section for audio content that is scoped to relevant post types. This could be extended for video content too.

Why you think the feature request is something we should consider for the Yoast SEO plugins?

More and more podcasters are using Yoast SEO, and I think there is a strong market for this feature.

Additional context

I would be interested in building/collaborating on this.

[jonoalderson]

I'd definitely like us to support this, but there are some complexities:

• We'd have to add a "What type of post/page is this?" workflow/options in the editor, which increases potential confusion/errors/support overheads.
• The vast majority of our users don't/won't need this, so I'm reluctant to commit real-estate in the post editor.

However... I think we can still implement this, albeit with a different approach.

I think this would be best taken care of automatically in the background, in a scenario where you add a 'Podcast' or audio block (or somesuch) to your content. That way, we can simply extract the relevant information and add the og: tags and schema.

I don't think we have plans to build/support such a block yet, but, it's definitely something we'll consider. We're working on block+schema logic for other components elsewhere at the moment, so it may be that we'll have an extensible foundation in the near-ish future which we/you could build upon.

[suascat]

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[coolhandluke1234]

Alot of podcasters like myself use plugins (like https://www.blubrry.com/) to publish the audio file. If that's the case you don't need a block for this, just get the information from the plugin they are already using.

Additionally we publish a podcast, video, images, and full 2000-7000+ word articles on almost all our posts, so I don't think it would make sense to have a "What type of post/page is this?"

As a user it would make more sense to make it an optional additional type of content the same way you handle images and videos. Maybe add options to add info about the audio file?