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HOW TO: Create A Video Sitemap For Your Blog
- Updated On 04/06/2018
- Author : Pradeep Kumar
- Topic : Guides
- Short URL : https://hellboundbloggers.com/?p=9079
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Video sitemap is similar to normal sitemap and it gives request to search engines to discover and index the videos in your blog. Sitemaps tell search engines about web pages, images and video content on your site that they may otherwise not discover.
Benefits Of Creating XML Sitemap For Video
If your blog contains lots of video files then you should create an XML Video Sitemap. It will help to improve your site’s performance in Google and other search engines. Yesterday I created one for HBB (See Video Sitemap).
Most of the search engines ignore video content embedded in web pages. But if you use a video sitemap, you can easily ping search engines like Google, Bing, etc about the video embedded in your site. Video Sitemaps will help your blog posts rank well in both video search results as well as Google’s web results.
How To Create XML Sitemap For Video?
For generating XML Sitemap for Video WordPress users can use Video Sitemap plug-in. You can generate an XML Sitemap for your site with a click. Install the plugin and click the “Generate” button. An XML Sitemap file will be created instantly and that will be stored in your site’s root directory.
The Video Sitemap plugin will generate an XML Sitemap for your WordPress blog using all YouTube videos that you may have embedded in your blog posts.
After generating the video sitemap, you can ping Google directly using the plugin options or use Google Webmaster Tools and other search engine tools to connect your video sitemap with your blog.
Limitations : This plug-in currently works with YouTube videos only. But future versions may support Vimeo, Facebook, Flickr, Daily Motion and other online video hosting websites.
How To Submit Video Sitemap To Google?
1. Go to Google Webmaster Tools.
2. Under Site Configuration, choose “Sitemaps”.
3. Select “Submit a Sitemap”.
4. Enter the Video Sitemap URL or filename. https://hellboundbloggers.com/video-sitemap.xml)
It takes some time to get indexed. If you have huge amount of video files, then it takes some more time! 😛
So have you created a video sitemap for your blog? Do you know any other cool plugin for generating? Please share it in the comments!
By Pradeep Kumar
CEO and Founder of Slashsquare, Indian Blog Network and Web Consulting Media. HBB is a part of Slashsquare Network. I'm a Tech Blogger, Striving Entrepreneur, Atheist, and Proud Indian. Catch me on Facebook and Twitter.
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Sameer
Thanks a lot for the plugin. I thought we could only submit sitemap containing link of our posts to Google webmaster tools.
George
Thanks! Was looking for a good plugin to generate a site map for my blog. Are there any other automated tools that can generate a sitemap for a normal website ?
S.Pradeep Kumar
No mate, for normal websites it's quite difficult.
Jasmine
I didn’t know we need to create sitemaps for videos! I will check out the plugin, right now I don’t have a lot of videos on my blog anyway. 🙂
Digital Imagination
Nice video and the content are also nice….
keep sharing…..
Mohana krishnan . R . I
well that’s great help dude to the bloggers to make their own video sitemap 🙂 great work 🙂
Luqman | Domain name registration
Creating video for your blog post is one of the ways to get traffic to blog. Creating a video sitemap is amazing!
Thanks for the plugin, great post.
Pooja
new concept added in google seo…
TechShare
as google give more importance to video.. so, video sitemap will be more popular in comming days….
Tej Kohli
I had tried but more improvement required Google to make its more user friendly
sureshpeters
hey bro tnx for the post..i tried and its got worked…and wat abt gaming website..?? it ll work for the same???
nani
amazing post… first time heard about video sitemap…….
Techsputter
Nice one mate……………..
esoftload
amazing post… first time heard about video sitemap…….
Jailbreak Iphone 4
this seems to be a new addition to the google seo . please let us know about the benefits as you get
Vector Graphics
awesome post but i dont have even single video on my blog but this is really helpful for Youtube celebrities.
Anish K.S @ Technics Today.com
its from labnol.org. cool 🙂
Anish K.S @ Technics Today.com
Thanks Pradeep, will check this plugin.
Robin
Thanks for this awesome plugin bro. I am going to use this to my video blog as well 🙂 very helpful.
– Robin