How to Create Video Sitemaps for Google

To fully optimize your videos for search engines you need to create a video sitemap. You cannot include your videos in your usual site map for URL content.

You can take the easy route and simply link to your video files, sending site traffic to the files (vs having them imbedded in a web page), but it is better to make videos available directly on your web pages.

Google accepts both XML and MRSS sitemaps. Which is better? For now, most SEO experts agree that you should always at least submit and XML sitemap, and include the location of your video XML sitemap in your robots.txt file.

In my article, "Tips for Creating a Google-Friendly Sitemap for Videos," you will learn if Google prefers xml or rmss sitemaps, and how to create and submit video sitemaps to Google.

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How to Create Video Sitemaps for Google originally appeared on About.com Women in Business on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 22:19:40.

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