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Using the tool I have this.. Ive submitted the following to GWT but have errors saying it's an invalid URL..

<url><loc>www.thefurnituremarket.co.uk</loc></url>video:thumbnail_lochttp://www.thefurnituremarket.co.uk/videos/home.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>video:titleAbout The Furniture Market</video:title>video:descriptionA video all about The Furniture Market a Multi Award Winning Company, based in Kelsall, Cheshire, UK.</video:description>video:content_loc"http://player.vimeo.com/external/56085518.hd.mp4?s=4d34a69f32af0d61e3c19212bdd67a81</video:content_loc>video:duration92</video:duration>video:publication_date2012-12-21</video:publication_date>video:family_friendlyyes</video:family_friendly>video:tagFurniture</video:tag>video:tagFurniture</video:tag>video:tagFurniture</video:tag><video:uploader info="http://www.thefurnituremarket.co.uk/">The Furniture Market</video:uploader>video:liveno</video:live>

I tried with http: had the same error message

I am using the new vimeo iframe embed code.

any ideas? I read your forum thread but couldn't see any answers.

For the new Vimeo videos in a pro account, do I need to add the <embed> mark up to the page the video is on?

yeah we paid the $199 its a no brainer.

these videos come from vimeo and are on the pro platform

this video here http://www.thefurnituremarket.co.uk/about.asp

If we can get away with it how do I format the sitemap using Distilled google doc here..

https://docs.google.com/a/thefurnituremarket.co.uk/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhK1-u_-nIZhdE5KdEFTYVJCN3M4Yk9Xb2pfY0hrQkE#gid=0

yeah we paid the $199 its a no brainer.

these videos come from vimeo and are on the pro platform

this video here http://www.thefurnituremarket.co.uk/about.asp

If we can get away with it how do I format the sitemap using Distilled google doc here..

https://docs.google.com/a/thefurnituremarket.co.uk/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhK1-u_-nIZhdE5KdEFTYVJCN3M4Yk9Xb2pfY0hrQkE#gid=0

I am confused now.

I thought if you had a subdomain

** videos.mysite.com**

This will have more authority than if you have videos linking out to vimeo etc..

I also don't understand why i frame is so bad.

Wouldn't we just be better off hosting these on our server with a nice custom media player?

We have our own server my only slight concern is bandwidth issues.

Ideally Phil would this be your recommendation?

I may be wrong here but the old embed code uses a kind of flash player so our lovely iPad customers would miss out.

Am I right?

Also to enable the old embed code it makes the video embeddable on any website, and we don't want that.

So use this embedd code in that doc and generate an output?

Will it matter the video is not hosted on our own server?

I noticed a thread on this forum about using the old embedd code from vimeo for videos, although I can't see this option in Vimeo in 2013.

My Question is I have Iframe embedded videos from vimeo,

How do I format a google video site map accordingly?

or do I need a custom media player instead?

Thanks Irving

This isn't going to happen. We are going to have close to 300 links on the home page. It will mean a nice flat site structure and better usability.

I think 500 is too much.

I watched a Google Webmaster video with Darth Cutts and he said that 100 link rule is old hat now but the logic of what you suggest makes a ton of sense to me.

I am thinking there will be an element of taking Google at their word and designing for the 'User Experience'.

I would be intested in knowing what you guys think is the best way to name images?

say "rustic-oak-3-draw-bedside.jpg"

How long should the names be max and are hyphens ok do you think?

This is something I am considering myself, when I ask SEO companies where they source links from etc I  have had answers that range from...

"Our back linking methodology has been approved by the board" or

"It would be infringing on our intellectual property" or

"If we told you, you know enough about SEO to go out and do it yourself"..

My thoughts are if you have a number of responsibilities like I do, as long as you set out from the start what you need from an SEO company and keep them on a short leash for the first quarter you can get a good feeling if the links they are getting you are quality and equally as important are getting cached and indexed.

As with most things it comes down to budgets and resource.

I think this type of hands off approach is useful for smaller companies who are not accountable to share holders. I can well imagine the annoyance a team of link builders may experience documenting in forensic detail their activities.

There are lots of examples of blue chip's getting burned, by "don't ask don't tell" link building.

I only today saw a very high profile supermarket chain in the UK back linking to picture from "Japansesearthquakepictures.com"..

I don't know how much more tasteless back linking can get than that.