How do some websites get images beside their search results?

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  1. #1
    How come certain websites get images beside their results? One example of this is YouTube, but there are many others as well.
     
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  2. Hersheys

    Hersheys Peon

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    #2
    Can you post the screen shots? I've check the youtube but I don't see any images.
     
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  3. RoboLlama

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    #3
    Here's two examples attached.
     

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  4. tattoos

    tattoos Prominent Member

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    #4
    They are video thumbnails.

    Your best chance of getting them, is to have videos hosted on your site (not embedded youtube videos) , and have a video sitemap. You need to create a thumbnail for the video, and have a reference to the image in the sitemap.
    That's how I got mine.
    [​IMG]

    Hope that helps

    Cheers
    James
     
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  5. findonline

    findonline Peon

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    #5
    Interesting, thanks for the explanation on the video, I have been wondering why this was for some time. I have also noticed that some sites (universities and such) have a search toolbar in their result as well - I'm sure it has something to do with the size / popularity of their site...
     
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    #6
    it is simple,just put "alt"
     
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  7. RoboLlama

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    #7
    Armorgames is flash games not videos though?
     
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    #8
    new knowledge of me ,thx
     
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    #9
    I think that would be different scenario and not yet implemented...
     
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  10. RoboLlama

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    #10
    What do you mean? Armor games has thumbnails beside their results just like YouTube...
     
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  11. Munday

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    #11
    A few UK news sites get the link next to the search listing.
     
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  12. Abhik

    Abhik ..:: The ONE ::..

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    #12
    Those are video thumbnails.
    If a page contains a related video, a thumbnail should appear along side of the result.
     
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    #13
    This is just another example of how important videos are becoming in the search engine world, Google included. Embedding videos is going to become a requirement rather than a novelty.
     
    San Diego Homes, Aug 1, 2009 IP
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    #14
    I think only video thumbnails are shown no other website images are shown with there website
     
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    #15
    The video sitemap only tells the search engine bots about the file that is embedded in the page.
    If it's an embedded flv/swf "video" or "game" doesn't really matter because Googlebot doesn't watch or play it, it only indexes it ;)

    You can go here to find out how to make a video sitemap ;)

    Cheers
    James
     
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  16. Hersheys

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    #16
    Thanks for the images. Those site was seen on the results to emphasize that the video or images is ranking for that keywords.
     
    Hersheys, Aug 6, 2009 IP
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    thnx for the info, i really didn't had an idea about this before.
     
    mrwordsworth, Aug 6, 2009 IP