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Don · 1 year ago

Hey Mate,

Thank you so much fro this tip and indeed your site in general. Have just shot my first really bad vid and now am investigation maximum seo syndication. Your information has made matters easier. Thank You

Don

Social Media Marketing · 1 year ago

Great Work!

Sharing videos is a great marketing strategy and Google Video Sitemaps has alive it. It will quickly get the webmasters’ attention and become their front line marketing strategy.

Test Video Pilot · 1 year ago

Great post. Any ideas on how long the title and description can be? Google say 100 chars for the title and 2048 for the desc (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/an...) but far less obviously show up in the SERPS...

Cheers and thanks for a great post

RJ Marquez · 1 year ago

Hello, in regards to the Video Sitemap do you, or anyone else know, if you can create a sitemap for a video that is hosted on YouTube? I want to embed a video, using the YouTube emebed code, and place it on a landing page within a website.

The Google Sitemap Criteria sites that " A Video Sitemap should contain only URLs that refer to video content. Video content includes web pages which embed video, URLs to players for video, or the URLs of raw video content hosted on your site. If Google cannot discover video content at the URLs you provide, those records will be ignored by Googlebot."

This bit of info allows me to believe that you can create a Sitemap for a video that is hosted by YouTube and that is embedded on a site. I invite anyone to offer insight in to whether or not this is true. Thanks!

Kieran · 11 months ago

hey, this is great post, just referenced in my blog. I am going to try and do this tomorrow. Video search is the future !!

Thanks

SearchBrat

Cherry · 11 months ago

Hi All,

I'm trying to create a sitemap, but seemd Google doesn't accept YouTube hosted videos.

I can see many people are interested in this question. Does anybody know what's wrong ?

Thanks,
Cherry

Fred Fares · 7 months ago

Hi, I need guidance in creating video site map to send to Google. I read their website information but since my website is membership based, I some how need to create a video site map outside of the secure area? Where and how do I do this? What if I have more than 1 video to advertise? Can I create more than 1 site map?

Mark Robertson · 7 months ago

To start off, who are you using to host the videos and what player are you using?

Mark Robertson · 7 months ago

I would check the google websmaster forums for help with regard to secured areas. As far as multiple sitemaps - usually you would create one for all of your videos vs. one per video... You can create more than one video sitemap but it may not make sense... The problem is that if your site is membership based in order to see the videos, why would you want to allow google to show your videos to non-members?

Sarkı Dinle · 7 months ago

How can i create a video sitemap?is there a program for this?Thank you...

Mark Robertson · 7 months ago

Depends - if you have wordpress there are some plugins that will work. Otherwise, there really isnt a good program for this. If you have an MRSS feed, Id recommend submitting that instead - http://www.reelseo.com/google-mrss-xml/

Thomas · 1 month ago

A1 Sitemap Generator can create video sitemaps for most websites (not for YouTube/externally hosted videos though)

Mark Robertson · 1 month ago

Yup and there is also a free video sitemap generator tool available at http://www.videositemappro.com/

Thomas · 2 days ago

However, A1 Sitemap Generator is fully automated for generating video sitemaps. (Videositemappro seems to require one adds entries manually.)

Florida SEO · 5 months ago

you are the man. Thanks a ton! A client just asked me to make them a video sitemap...

livemercial video · 4 months ago

do i make the landing page location the location where the player is or can i make it the index page of the site (where the video also sits)

Mark Robertson · 4 months ago

You can make the URL the index page but it is best for universal search if you make each video have its own destination URL page - where the individual video resides. Make sense?

Guru99 · 3 months ago

Hi,

Is the above technique also valid for a video embedded in a site from you-tube ?

Thanks!

Mark Robertson · 3 months ago

Cherry and Guru 99 - As far as I can tell, this technique is not valid for videos embedded from YouTube. That being said, I am testing a few things to see if this can work as Ive seen it done by one other site out there on the web. Ill update this post when the sitemap gets accepted so that I can let you know if it works. Thanks for the comments.

Dugdale · 1 week ago

I have not done this yet for my videos. Is it really worth it? Have you done any test to see if the submitted videos rank better or anything like that recently?

Mark Robertson · 1 week ago

I believe it is crucial to do this. Do you have videos that you host on
your own site? Are they shown with image thumbnails in Google universal
search?

Dugdale · 1 week ago

Not really - just a few. They are on Vimeo and YouTube and then embedded on my site. I have about 200 videos. Is there a Wordpress plugin that would help me manage the video sitemap?

Mark Robertson · 1 week ago

no need really if you dont have your own videos hosted on your own.. I
wouldnt worry about it Dugdale