Video XML Sitemap – Way to Grow Feasibility of Your Site

Most of us doing SEO for a long time are well acquainted with the general XML sitemap. We all know that normal XML sitemap is created to enhance the crawling and indexing capacity of a text based website in a far better way to make it more feasible. But, we all have flown with the concept that is there any option to rank for our site through embedded video content of a website? This question is growing day by day on a SEO expert’s mind. And where there is a question, there is also a solution we all know. And, conclusion is that, video XML sitemap can solve this problem.

We all know that search engines are generally reluctant to crawl video content present in a site. You can have a website containing very important video contents provided by the client and clear instruction from the client to rank those videos in SERP. Also there are some clients who demand SERP result for most competitive keyword, like “business, internet” etc. Video XML sitemap can help in this part in a better way.

Video Sitemap Guidelines

A video sitemap contains only URLs that refer to the video content of the site, web pages with embedded video, URLs to players for video

If we have multiple videos on the same HTML based page, we need to use different entries for them with different or to provide information. Try to avoid hosting same videos on different URLs of the same site.

Don’t use more than 10,000 video items on the page. You can use multitple video sitemaps, no nesting required here.

.mpg, .mpeg, .mp4, .mov, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .ra, .ram, .rm, .flv, .swf. these are the video file type that google can crawl. One of the most amazing ways to promote flash site is to create video XML sitemap for all the flash content. It will surely yield result. All files should be HTTP accessibility.

We have to keep in mind that no URL used in the video XML sitemap should be blocked from the robots.txt file.

and are the two very important tags for Google web crawler. Here you can put your most competing keywords for generating SE ranking.