Video Site Map Question..

[vinku]

Hi !

It's really good guide...

I have few questions...

We own ecommerce site. we are in process of building videos realted to our niche. I'm planning to host videos like this www.ecom.com/videos  where videos folder i m going to manage with wordpress and wordpress has plugins like :- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-video-plugin/

I am planning to host video on youtube and vimeo. as both will have same videos. which service provider i should use for my own sitemap...

we know both can rank in google and my ecommerce site too..

Keeping SEO benefits and traffic in mind. what should i do...

Thanks

vinku

[JohnParker2792]

I agree with Matthew,

I would make to separate sitemaps and submit them both.

Don't forget to type up the scripts in the video descriptions!

[MatthewBarby]

Hi Vinku,

Firstly, I would create and submit a video sitemap for your website to Google. This will help them to index the videos on the website and will throw you up the search rankings. You can either submit a separate video sitemap or add some extra code onto your exisiting one for this.

I would advise you to make sure that you are embedding either your vimeo or YouTube videos direct to the website so that you don't get duplicate videos as these will just compete with each other and be detrimental to your SEO efforts.

Hope this helps.

Matt.