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Google Sitemaps for Video - Making your videos more searchable
It’s already on techmeme, but if you missed it, Google has launched a way for webmasters to let them know if you have video content on your website.
No longer waiting for google to figure out that you host your own video, or uploading your content to youtube etc just so that it appears on google’s video search result pages. It is now possible to simply tell google to crawl your video pages for indexing into video.google.com and possibly also universal search.
More on the google webmaster blog >
Sphere ItIn our effort to help users search all the world’s public videos, the Google Video team joined the Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps—an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search. By submitting this video-specific Sitemap in addition to your standard Sitemap, you can specify all the video files on your site, along with relevant metadata
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[…] Original post by Final Tag […]
Blimey. Google are really trying to fulfil their promise of indexing all knowledge! The only problem I have with this is that it seems like it would be easy to spam the video search engine. Google are essentially relying on metadata (i.e. the sitemap), which sounds dangerous. Having said that, I’m sure they’ve thought of something…
It’s another example of Google ‘tying in’ webmasters to their products and services. It’s all very clever, I reckon. It’s a good idea, though, because it differentiate GV from youtube.