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I have video sitemaps on all my vshare sites. I'm signed up in Google webmasters, and Google scans my sites frequently. I can see results from the pages themselves, but no "video" results at all. In fact the only video results I ever see on google are from youtube and metacafe.
Has anyone seen any evidence that Google does anything at all with the video sitemaps it collects?
bump... anyone? anyone?
It's almost one year since I posted my sitemap with no result! :-|
Yah same here... I don't see a single "video" result in Google for anything but Youtube, Metacafe, and maybe one or two other major video sites. I almost think that a standard sitemap (like from a blog) will do more to get Google listings than this video sitemap.
It works for me. I have found several of my site's videos in the results.
Which kind of sitemap are you using?Quote:
Originally Posted by bplex
Video sitemaps
I use video sitemaps too, and I guess I need to clarify.... I do see my pages coming up in Google search results, just never in the VIDEO results, like when they show a youtube video thumbnail with the query return.
For example, if you google "punjabi alphabet" you get a few returns, then the fourth return is a youtube video link, then the bottom of the page my site, thewall.net and a different Punjabi alphabet video, but returned as a text result rather than as a video result.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=n ... i+alphabet
See, for me, I don't get any video results in the main search, but I do get video results in the video search. I believe that if you want video search results in the main search, you need a different site map style for that. I'll have to research to see how to accomplish that.
That was what I meant, with my videositemap I have my videos indexed and direct linked in Goolge but WITHOUT any thumbnail!
This is crazy, but I think that google is "filtering" in some way some other sites... :(