How to make video snapshot appear near your search result

[nagar]

What's the proper way to have google display a video near the search result for my webpage (I'm using LeadPlayer to play videos).

I think that the information regarding the video is there (I also submitted a video sitemap) but when I do a search the author picture is displayed instead of the video.

Have I set anything wrong? How can I display the video if my post contains a video?

You can try searching "phraseexpander create customizable templates"

There's my youtube video and then the result from my webpage http://www.phraseexpander.com

I would like to display the video as a result.

Thanks a lot.

Andrea

[nagar]

I'm currently using XML Sitemap for Videos that generates the video sitemap.

Is that enough? I also saw this plug in http://yoast.com/wordpress/video-seo/ and it looks like you can display video snippets even if the video are hosted on youtube.

What's your experience?

Thanks.

Andrea

[PhilNottingham]

Lead player just integrates with the YouTube API - so it's no different to just embedding the YouTube version on your page.

If you want the video rich snippet, a much more surefire way is going to be self hosting your video - or using a third party provider like Wistia.

Also, you should put your video sitemap in your robots.txt file as well as submitting through GWMT.

[ChristopherGlaeser]

How did you build the video sitemap?  Can you post a link to the video sitemap?

Best,
Christopher