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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
The single best way to make Google aware of all your videos on your website is to create and
maintain a
Video Sitemap.
Video Sitemaps provide Google with essential information about your videos, including the URLs for
the pages where the videos can be found, the titles of the videos, keywords, thumbnail images,
durations, and other information. The Sitemap also allows you to define the period of time for
which each video will be available. This is particularly useful for content that has explicit
viewing windows, so that we can remove the content from our index when it expires.
Once we have indexed a video, it may appear in our web search results in what we call a Video
Onebox (a cluster of videos related to the queried topic) and in our video search property,
Google Videos. A video result is
immediately recognizable by its thumbnail, duration, and a description.
As an example, this is what a video result from
CNN.com looks like on Google:
We encourage those of you with videos to submit Video Sitemaps and to keep them updated with your
new content. Please also visit our recently updated Video Sitemap
Help Center, and utilize our Sitemap
Help Forum.
If you've submitted a Video Sitemap file via Webmaster Tools, you can
share your experiences or problems with us.
Posted by Nelson Lee, Product Manager Video Search
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Missing the information I need","missingTheInformationINeed","thumb-down"],["Too complicated / too many steps","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["Out of date","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["Samples / code issue","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],[],[[["Using Video Sitemaps is the most effective way to ensure Google indexes all videos on your website, providing comprehensive information about each video."],["Video Sitemaps allow specifying video availability periods, enabling content removal from Google's index upon expiration."],["Once indexed, videos may appear in Google's web search results as Video Oneboxes and within Google Videos, enhancing visibility."],["Submitting and maintaining updated Video Sitemaps is highly recommended for website owners with video content to increase discoverability."]]],["Create and maintain a Video Sitemap to inform Google about website videos. This includes URLs, titles, keywords, thumbnails, durations, and availability periods. Submit the Sitemap URL via Google Webmaster Tools or the robots.txt file. Indexed videos may appear in Google's Video Onebox and Google Videos, displayed with a thumbnail, duration, and description. Keep Sitemaps updated and use the provided Help Center, Forum, and feedback channels for support.\n"]]
