Video xml sitemap: how to build with 1000 videos on your site?
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Hey Mozzers,
We have a vacation rental site where every property has its own video of the property. (i.e. YouTube embedded video)
So, with more than 1000 homes, how do you make a video xml map?
Or, should we have an xml map with 1000 links on it?
Can't wait to see your insights!
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Sure,
Here is a list of some content Moz and Distilled have done on Video.
http://www.distilled.net/blog/social-media/youtube/creating-awesome-videos-for-seo/
http://www.distilled.net/blog/social-media/youtube/youtube-seo/
http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/getting-links-and-seo-value-from-your-youtube-videos/
http://www.seomoz.org/q/best-way-to-host-video
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/getting-stuff-done-by-video
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/video-sitemap-guide-for-vimeo-and-youtube
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=80472
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sorry, on the video from Distilled Link Love 2011
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thank you thank you Phil.
It was actually a video from Distilled that pushed me to do it. (Rand Fishkin funny line on video xml maps for youtube videos)
Do you have something to read up, on in regards to video, within Distilled or SEOMoz by chance?
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Only thing i have to add from Vahe's answer Peter is that you probably shouldn't use YouTube for this.
The Hotspot graph metrics for an "advert" style video like you're building will probably be very low, as will the overall views and this will cause Google to see it negatively and not rank it. If you use a service like Vzaar - http://www.vzaar.com or Wistia - http://www.wistia.com then you're probably more likely to get a good blended video result. With Wistia, you can also automatically add content to your sitemap, so i expect this will be a great way to go for you.
Cheers,
Phil
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Perfect, thank you Vahe.
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From looking at Google Webmaster Tools forums, they have said you can have a maximum of 50,000 URLs which I am assuming applies when you create a video sitemap.
There are software/tools which you can use to create specific video sitemaps online. Here's a page I found to create video sitempas using A1 sitemap generator - http://www.microsystools.com/products/sitemap-generator/help/video-xml-sitemaps/
Make sure that you review the thumbnails and meta data used as it is important for how it appears in SERPs and the nature of users click through.
Other resources
- Creating sitemaps using externally hosted videos - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/video-sitemap-guide-for-vimeo-and-youtube a cool one from one of the Mozzers
- Here was a previous QA post on video sitempas - http://www.seomoz.org/q/video-sitemaps
Hope this helps,
Vahe
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