Video Sitemaps

December 24, 2007

Google have announced an extension to the Sitemaps protocol and you can now submit ‘Video Sitemap’s to Google. The video sitemap is meant to make your videos more searchable in Google. You can submit these new sitemaps alongside your traditional sitemap; it is submit in the same way through your webmaster tools page.

Google have given us a helping hand in the webmaster help centre by showing us what a video sitemap should look like. Obviously it’s in XMl. The file gives allot more information that a standard sitemap including: title, description, duration as well as weather your video is suitable for children and a link to a thumbnail.

If you have videos on your website then this is good news to get your content out there in a more efficient manner.

Gary
SEO Programmer