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Category: Video Sitemaps

Make Video Sitemaps for Google

Create XML Sitemaps, Video Sitemaps

Create Video Sitemaps
Before creating video sitemaps, you have to know what they are :) Video sitemaps file kind is a Google extension of XML sitemaps. If you do not know how to create these, check the XML sitemap tutorials at this website. Video sitemaps help search engines like Google to identify video content, video players and primary pages for your videos. This guide explains how to build video sitemaps in a few easy steps using this sitemap generator tool.

Crawl and Find All Videos
First use the video sitemap crawl preset to ensure the sitemap generator tool finds and keeps all video related URLs during website scan:

crawl website first to create video sitemap

After that, just start the website crawl for video related URLs.

Build The Video Sitemap
Select the correct sitemap file kind to create, video sitemap:

create the video sitemap for Google search engine

How to Verify Video Sitemaps
Google Webmaster Tools can reports the number of page URLs in all XML sitemap files. However, strictly speaking, that is rarely what you will want to know for pure video sitemap files which only list page URLs that has video content. Instead, you will probably want to know how many videos were found and submitted to Google. Here is a trick to find the number of submitted videos in case you experiment with different video sitemap generator tools:

  • Always ensure that the video sitemap only contains page URLs <loc></loc> with videos <video:loc></video:loc> associated to them.
  • You can use search/replace of the <video:loc> tag in the XML video sitemap file created. Many text editors will let you know the number of found/replaced text count.

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