How do I create a Video Sitemap for Youtube Embedded Videos?

[LDS-SEO]

I've been seeing a lot of people recommend creating a video sitemap or Media RSS feed (mRSS) and submit to Google.  We have videos hosted on Brightcove and most on YouTube.  Brightcove can generate the sitemap for us.  But does anyone know how to generate a YouTube Video Sitemap for those videos embedded on our pages?

Note:  I realize I could manually assemble the video sitemap, however manually assembling the sitemap is probably not an option for us due to the volume of videos we've published.

[Hakkasan]

Google actually has a very good overview of creating XML video sitemaps.  You can create a sitemap for your videos even if they are hosted by YouTube.

From the page: "Video content includes web pages which embed video, URLs to players for video, or the URLs of raw video content hosted on your site."

You can add video extension tags in your existing site, or create a standalone sitemaps just for videos.  Also, you can submit the sitemap through the wonderful Webmaster Tools.

Good luck!

[LDS-SEO]

Thanks for the plugin resource.  Unfortunately we are not on Wordpress.  We have an enterprise CMS and I haven't found out if it can generate a video sitemap for us yet or not.

[NickPateman81]

If you have WordPress then there's a plugin that will do all of this for you in a couple of seconds. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xml-sitemaps-for-videos/

You're really missing out if you're not on WordPress :s If you haven't got too many videos then manual building of a video sitemap isn't tough at all. Take a look at the source code for this video sitemap if you just want to copy and paste the structure: http://www.smemarketing.com/sitemap-video.xml