{"id":11637,"date":"2010-03-01T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=11637"},"modified":"2020-03-30T14:24:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T08:54:17","slug":"videos-indexed-by-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/videos-indexed-by-google\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Your Videos Indexed by Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to get your videos listed on Google? Have you already noticed while performing a search on Google, those videos thumbnails displayed on the left side of some sites? They are definitely great traffic attractors, and having such a video associated with your site when being on 5th or 6th positions of the search results page may be better in terms of &#8220;click-thru-rate&#8221; than being on 1st position without it.<\/p>\n<p>There is an additional bonus in having a video associated to your site: on some occasions, Google displays in a block titled &#8220;<strong>Video results for Keyword<\/strong>&#8220;, often on the 3rd or 5th position, several videos, and when it is the case, <strong>you can jump several positions and land directly on the first page <\/strong>to join an already existing video results block.<\/p>\n<p>The trick is to find a search argument for which your page is already ranking well but not yet on the first page, with Google displaying a Video Results group on first page: you will benefit from the optimization work of those who made the way to the first page.<\/p>\n<p>Found the perfect search request? All you need to do now is to make your video indexed by Google, and that&#8217;s the<br \/>\neasiest part !<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Put a video on your page :<\/strong> I mean a real video, hosted on your site, not on Youtube or DailyMotion. You need a .flv file (or .mpg, .avi, .mp4) and a video plugin that supports this kind of video formats. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/jing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Jing<\/a> is perfect to record onscreen action and make nice video tutorials.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Create a thumbnail of your video : <\/strong>that&#8217;s the thumbnail that Google will display on its search results page, so making a good quality thumbnail out of your video is an important step. Personally, I&#8217;ve found that 160&#215;120 gif or jpg works well for that purpose&#8230;.and they actually don&#8217;t need to be extracted from your video. Any image pertinent to the content of your video will make the trick.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Create a video sitemap :<\/strong> Video sitemaps are XML files similar to usual sitemaps but using a different<br \/>\nsyntax. See an example below.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Submit your video sitemap to Google :<\/strong> Video sitemaps can be submitted in Google Webmaster Tools exactly as a standard sitemap. If you had not yet registered your site in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Webmaster Tool<\/a>, that&#8217;s the perfect occasion to do it now.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>Video Sitemap example<\/strong><\/h3>\n<pre><code>&lt;urlset xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\"\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0xmlns:video=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/schemas\/sitemap-video\/1.1\"&gt;\r\n&lt;url&gt;\r\n \u00a0&lt;loc&gt;http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/Formula-One-Race.html&lt;\/loc&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:video&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:content_loc&gt;http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/video\/gpmonaco.flv&lt;\/video:content_loc&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:player_loc allow_embed=\"yes\" autoplay=\"ap=1\"&gt;http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/player_flv_maxi.swf&lt;\/video:player_loc&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:thumbnail_loc&gt;http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/video\/gpmonacothumb.gif&lt;\/video:thumbnail_loc&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:title&gt;Formula One Race: Grand Prix Monaco 1932&lt;\/video:title&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:description&gt;Nuvolari victory\u00a0(Alfa Rom\u00e9o) in 1932 Monaco Grand Prix &lt;\/video:description&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:publication_date&gt;2009-12-19&lt;\/video:publication_date&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:tag&gt;Formula One Race&lt;\/video:tag&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:tag&gt;Alpha Romeo&lt;\/video:tag&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:tag&gt;Monaco &lt;\/video:tag&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:tag&gt;Bugatti&lt;\/video:tag&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:tag&gt;Nuvolari&lt;\/video:tag&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:category&gt;Car Race&lt;\/video:category&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:family_friendly&gt;yes&lt;\/video:family_friendly&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;video:duration&gt;120&lt;\/video:duration&gt;\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;\/video:video&gt;\r\n&lt;\/url&gt;\r\n&lt;\/urlset&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The video-specific XML tags are pretty straightforward, but if you need more detail, you can check this page on Google Webmaster Central: Creating Video Sitemaps. Don&#8217;t forget to optimize your video sitemap by inserting your main keywords in the video tags, it will give an additional boost to your ranking if done meaningfully.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guest author Keiros is an outsourcing and infrastructure management consultant, and a contributor to SEOChat.com Forum.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to get your videos listed on Google? 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