Google video search optimization

Anyone have any tips on how to get your videos indexed with google video search? (http://video.google.com)

I have my own flv player installed, and currently none of my videos are in the google index. Youtube videos with the same content are being found, though

 

bummmmmmmmp

 

The best option that I see is to have the content / Title / Description of the video. I am not an expert but just an opinion.

 

i have done work on few vide. most of the video not allow you to put the hyeprlink but you can show it in your description

 

I can get PAGES with video on them indexed. The problem is getting the video player/file to show up in the video search. It seems biased for youtube video now. How, for example, does the search read video embed code from your web page and place it into the results?

 

i also would like to know some techniques for video optimization, does the length of the video matters?

 

Create a video sitemap and submit it in webmaster tools is the best way I think...

Copy the code below and paste it in notepad, change the addresses and directories to suit (duration is in seconds), Save it as UTF-8 and name it videofeed.xml

Add a new sitemap in WMT's

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
        xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.0">
<url>
   <loc>http://www.example.com/video1.html</loc>
   <video:video>
      <video:content_loc>http://www.example.com/vids/video1.flv</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc allow_embed="yes">http://www.example.com/flvplayer.swf</video:player_loc>
      <video:title>video1 title</video:title>
      <video:thumbnail_loc>http://www.example.com/images/video1-thumbnail.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
      <video:description>video1 description</video:description>
      <video:family_friendly>yes</video:family_friendly>
      <video:duration>200</video:duration>
   </video:video>
</url>

<url>
   <loc>http://www.example.com/video2.html</loc>
   <video:video>
      <video:content_loc>http://www.example.com/vids/video2.flv</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc allow_embed="yes">http://www.example.com/flvplayer.swf</video:player_loc>
      <video:title>video2 title</video:title>
      <video:thumbnail_loc>http://www.example.com/images/video2-thumbnail.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
      <video:description>video2 description</video:description>
      <video:family_friendly>yes</video:family_friendly>
      <video:duration>200</video:duration>
   </video:video>
</url>

<url>
   <loc>http://www.example.com/video3.html</loc>
   <video:video>
      <video:content_loc>http://www.example.com/vids/video3.flv</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc allow_embed="yes">http://www.example.com/flvplayer.swf</video:player_loc>
      <video:title>video3 title</video:title>
      <video:thumbnail_loc>http://www.example.com/images/video3-thumbnail.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
      <video:description>video3 description</video:description>
      <video:family_friendly>yes</video:family_friendly>
      <video:duration>200</video:duration>
   </video:video>
</url>

Code (markup):

Hope that helps

Cheers
James

 

wow, so good , bookmarked,
thanks for sharing.

 

Thanks James I will try that out!

 

No worries, Let us know how it works.. I added a video sitemap about a month ago, only for 4 videos..
Just had a look then in Google's videos search, for my key words, and one of my vids came up in the list surrounded by Youtube and Google videos.. So it does seem to work..

Cheers
James