Hello Kurt and All:

You have probably seen this:

http://www.googlevideositemap.com/

Is this worth buying or is there something like that here already?

Thanks,
CT

buy it and then report back your findings...

one question though: Would you release a software that gives you double listings in google and more traffic than your competitors - I wouldnt..

LAST EDITED ON May-28-10 AT 07:58 PM (PST)
 
>Hello Kurt and All:
>
>You have probably seen this:
>
>http://www.googlevideositemap.com/
>
>Is this worth buying or is there something like that here
>already?

Hey Charles,

I rarely say bad things about people in this forum, as they don't have a chance to respond, but I'm going to make an exception.

Mark Dulisse copied and pasted some of my LinkBomb report on his site and refused to take it down, instead hiding behind living in Canada. It happend about 2 years ago and should documented on the Warrior forum, if it hasn't been deleted. He was told by a few people he was ripping me off and refused to do anything about it.

As you see, I can't give a good word about this guy.

http://www.googlevideositemap.com/
>

withe a domain withe google in the name, I would not by
just because of that alone.

It seems he is just asking for a shutdown notice.

Kelvin

Are there any alternatives to what this thing does?

CT

This guy has a solution for $97 (ugh)

http://www.secureamazons3streaming.com/s3/google-video-sitemap-generator-for-your-wordpress-blog

AND

Bruce Clay has some instructions on his site:

http://www.bruceclay.com.au/blog/archives/seo-tips-tricks/

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17 September 2009
Google Video Sitemaps | What Are They and How to Create One

Posted by Grant Hilton

Online video is increasingly becoming an important element to consider from a search engine optimisation perspective. What if your company has just recently released a great promotional video on their web site and after a few of weeks of continuous monitoring, using the company's analytics software, you realise that the video has not been indexed by Google at all ? So how do you get that video indexed in Google and increase exposure to the online World ?

video sitemap

Photo by googlisti via Creative Commons

The simple solution for this is to create a Google Video XML Sitemap which makes use of the sitemap protocol with the addition of several video specific tags. Creating a Google Video Sitemap is an integral part of Video SEO that must not be ignored if you want your videos to be indexed and ideally rank for relevant keywords. In the Google Video Sitemap you can add information about each video such as title, description, rating, duration, category, expiration date and more. A Google Video Sitemap is a great way to alert Google that you have a video at a specific landing page.

Before we get to how to create a video sitemap there are a few important points to remember:

• The video sitemap must be less than 10MB uncompressed and contain less than 50,000 entries.

• The video sitemap must be a separate file (eg: companyvideos.xml) and cannot be incorporated into a standard sitemap.xml file.

• Make sure you are not blocking Googlebot from indexing the directory that contains the video file in the robots.txt.

• The video types that are compatible with video sitemaps (that are not streamed and can be accessed via http) are ; .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4, .mov, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .ra, .ram, .rm and .flv.

• If your video gets indexed and is about a product it may not only appear within normal Google search results and Google Video Search but also Google Product Search.

• Your video does not have to be hosted on your web server (you could have your videos on YouTube) to create a Google Video Sitemap.

With the above points in mind, the first line in the video sitemap starts with an xml declaration:

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9";
xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1";>

The next step is to define the location of the landing page containing the video and the video location and video player location as follows:

<url>
<loc>http://www.company.com/videos/myfantasticcompanyvideo.html<;/loc>
<video:video>
<video:content_loc>http://www.company.com/awesomeseocompany.flv<;/video:content_loc>
<video:player_loc allow_embed="yes">http://www.company.com/videoplayer.swf?video=awesomeseocompany<;/video:player_loc>

Then you can add further information about your video such as the thumbnail location, video title, description, rating and more:

<video:thumbnail_loc>http://www.company.com/thumbnails/awesomeseocompany.jpg<;/video:thumbnail_loc>
<video:title>X Company Product Video</video:title>
<video:description>How to use the X product from X Company. </video:description>

The below declarations are all optional whilst the previous declarations above are all required:

<video:rating>4.8</video:rating>
<video:view_count>248</video:view_count>
<video:publication_date>2009-09-13T15:41:35+06:00.</video:publication_date>
<video:expiration_date>2009-10-01T23:59:59+06:00.</video:expiration_date>

The <video:tag> is where you can indicate the relevant keywords for your video:

<video:tag>x company</video:tag>
<video:tag>x product</video:tag>
<video:category>X Company Product</video:category>
<video:family_friendly>yes</video:family_friendly>

The duration of the video is declared in seconds:

<video:duration>600</video:duration>

Finally each video must have closing </video:video> and </url> tags.

</video:video>
</url>

Once all video locations have been added to the sitemap it closes with the following declaration:

</urlset>

Congratulations you're almost done! Just save this file as an xml file naming it something relevant but not sitemap.xml (as that is declared for the standard sitemap). The following steps just need to be applied to add your new Video Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.

1. Simply login to Google Webmaster Tools using your Google account and expand the "Site Configuration" link on the Dashboard in the left navigation and click on the "Sitemaps" link.

2. Click on the "Submit a Sitemap" button.

3. Fill in the page name and extension of the video sitemap and click on the "Submit Sitemap" button.

Finito!! Now just monitor the progress of the indexing of the Sitemap to ensure that Google doesn't report any errors and if all is good you have now alerted Google to your video/s and they will be indexed more quickly and efficiently in future. Now that you know how to create a Google Video Sitemap it's time to go use your SEO skills and further optimise those video landing pages for when the search traffic starts rolling in.

LAST EDITED ON Feb-26-11 AT 02:05 PM (PST)
 
Hey Charles,

Thanks for that. I was't even aware of video sitemaps.

It seems if you want to automate it, the plugin is the way to go.

Doing it "by hand" offers a lot of gray/black hat options. Setting it up the first time isn't that hard, probably even easier than just installing the plugin. It will be the updating as you add new videos that's the problem.

Maybe create one by hand and see if you get the results you're looking for, and if you do go ahead and spend the money and get the plugin and tell us about it here.

I am thinking that I will do both. I am going to see how much it is to have a plugin like that designed for my personal use.

I have never looked into having one made so I want to see how much it is going to cost.

I asked a guy on the Wicked Fire Forum.

CT

>I am going to see how
>much it is to have a plugin like that designed for my
>personal use.

Hey Charles,

I was going to suggest this. I thought I did and had to reread my other posts to check and see that I didn't.

It doesn't seem like this is a very complex plugin and for $97 see if you can't have it programed for you as it may not cost that much more to have done. Then you own it and have an asset you can sell, trade, give away.

Just remember to include a statement like "I own any and all rights" when you make a deal with a programer.

Just remember to include a statement like "I own any and all rights" when you make a deal with a programer.

a couple of days ago I talked to someone who had a really great idea regarding a tool and teamed up with a programmer he just met on Warrior...
guess what happened...the programmer stole the idea and is selling now the tool - its a big seller bytheway...

also be aware of the fact that people are scanning freelance projects to "get ideas"

...

>Just remember to include a statement like "I own any and all
>rights" when you make a deal with a programer.
>
>
>a couple of days ago I talked to someone who had a really
>great idea regarding a tool and teamed up with a programmer
>he just met on Warrior...
>guess what happened...the programmer stole the idea and is
>selling now the tool - its a big seller bytheway...
>
>also be aware of the fact that people are scanning freelance
>projects to "get ideas"
>
>...
Is there a 'naive' emoticon here?

I would not have even guessed I had to do that.

Wow....

CT

LAST EDITED ON May-29-10 AT 08:42 AM (PST)
 
Am I just cheap, or is $97 a lot for a Wordpress Plugin that optimizes video?

I'll be honest, I am less and less inclined to pay that much and when we start talking over $40 or $50 I am just thinking that I might as well have it myself.

In that respect, it really is investing in my business.

Or maybe I am just thinking in an industrial age manner.

CT

>>Just remember to include a statement like "I own any and all
>>rights" when you make a deal with a programer.
>>
>>
>>a couple of days ago I talked to someone who had a really
>>great idea regarding a tool and teamed up with a programmer
>>he just met on Warrior...
>>guess what happened...the programmer stole the idea and is
>>selling now the tool - its a big seller bytheway...
>>
>>also be aware of the fact that people are scanning freelance
>>projects to "get ideas"
>>
>>...
>Is there a 'naive' emoticon here?
>
>I would not have even guessed I had to do that.
>
>Wow....

Hey Charles...

I wouldn't worry about it too much, since you're really just cloning another plugin. I'd be a lot more concerned if it was an original idea. If a programmer wanted to steal this idea, he/she can do it any time they want.

I'd still make the video site map by hand first and see if the concept actually works.

IMO, you're biggest risk is that the programmer won't finish the project.