Video Sitemaps

[Tim Buchalka]

Hey Tim,

You mentioned in an email recently that you were going to talk about Video sitemaps and how to set them up. Is this still something you have got planned.

I checked out that Google video sitemap link and it was gobbledegook to me...any plans to come out with some software to automatically create a video sitemap?

If I have youtube videos embedded on my site would a video sitemap grab those or would it only grab videos that are hosted on your site?

Thanks,
Iggs

Hi Iggs,

Yes the video sitemaps module was given to all ninja den members. If you are a member just access it via your ninja den membership. If you recall our emails gave you 30 days access to the ninja den for free to check it out, so I am assuming you signed up ?

The module in the ninja den shows a step by step on how to do it! This module directs traffic to your website with videos you host on your own website. But it also shows you how to copy videos from youtube, etc and to load them up on your own site (not using embedding code, the real full video).

Cheers


Tim

[Tim Buchalka]

Google "make clickbank sales". Looks like google indexed my video on youtube instead ... .
Back to the drawing board

This is a bonus, and nothing to do with video sitemaps. It's not possible for a video sitemap to help a youtube video rank better in my experience because no reference to the youtube vid is in the video sitemap.

Cheers


Tim

[s3onaut77]

This is a bonus, and nothing to do with video sitemaps. It's not possible for a video sitemap to help a youtube video rank better in my experience because no reference to the youtube vid is in the video sitemap.

Cheers


Tim

Hey Tim,

Glad you commented on it. Yeah i know that's why i said back to the drawing board ;-)

According to the video i saw on youtube the guy (fourblogger: make video sitemaps) said that you have to link via linkedtube.com to get the url in the thumbnail so it points to your domain rather than your youtube video.

So i'm guessing i just need to take time to drive more traffic to the video or is something wrong with the specification xml i shared with charlcoetzeel?

Cheers
Alex

[Tim Buchalka]

Hi Alex,

Well technically after researching it, there is a possibility you can do this. Because if you look at the url's, etc in the video sitemap xml it points to a video which can be anywhere. So if you can find a video player that streams youtube vids it might work. But youtube have plugged a few issues lately preventing this from happening.

I am unsure which specification xml you are referring to?

Cheers


Tim

[exil26]

tim! pat here, im a new student inside ninja den . i watched the videos for the videos sitmap i did exactly wat u did , for some odd reason i kept getting a blank page after i published my post ,wat do u think dat might cuz dat?

[Tim Buchalka]

Hi,

It sounds like you have a conflict with plugins on your blog somewhere. Try doing a post with all plugins deactivated then start one at a time until you find the source of the problem. Generally in my experience a blank page is a conflict within wordpress itself.

See how you go.

Regards



Tim

[philsquires]

Hi Tim

I used to be a Ninja Den member and needed to refer to some older material re: video sitemaps module

What I found was that when I logged in I was no longer able to access this content albeit I had paid for it at the time

Is that right is that information ONLY available as long as I am in 'good standing"

I had hoped that once given it was just that and any new and updated information may be witheld

OK here's the be nice to Tim and Anthony bit...lol

I've been following and paid for several courses with you guys and will no doubt be encouraged to invest with you again at some point

Please consider letting me have access to material up until the point I was paid up (about 3 months back)

In particular the "video sitemaps module" that was available via Ninja Den

Thanks in advance

Phil

P.S. I do understand if you say NO, however it would be awesome if you DIDN'T ;-)

[philsquires]

Deep Joy....

I have found a backup of said item - Yay

So not too worry on above..my money was guessing you would've said YES ;-)

Season Greetings - Happy Christmas

Hi Tim

I used to be a Ninja Den member and needed to refer to some older material re: video sitemaps module

What I found was that when I logged in I was no longer able to access this content albeit I had paid for it at the time

Is that right is that information ONLY available as long as I am in 'good standing"

I had hoped that once given it was just that and any new and updated information may be witheld

OK here's the be nice to Tim and Anthony bit...lol

I've been following and paid for several courses with you guys and will no doubt be encouraged to invest with you again at some point

Please consider letting me have access to material up until the point I was paid up (about 3 months back)

In particular the "video sitemaps module" that was available via Ninja Den

Thanks in advance

Phil

P.S. I do understand if you say NO, however it would be awesome if you DIDN'T ;-)

[basiljoseph]

I don't think you will get extra value by submitting videos that are protected. Essentially if you submit a video sitemap of videos you are really want Google to index and rank them. Sounds like you don't want that for your protected videos.

[donjon]

what is that i know xml and html site map what is this is this new thing or it will help us for SEO?