Google Video Sitemaps Doing Anything For Anyone??

[bplex]

Does your sitemap send the thumbs? If not, that may be the reason why.

[ramius]

Yes it does, standard video sitemap compliant.

[mersh]

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.

Hmmm that made sense so I tried it with the same search I showed above.... and my site didn't show up at ALL.

http://thewall.net/videomap.php

[bplex]

Well, mersh, there are two problems with your video site map.

1. Your video sitemap isn't XML according to the header. You will need to send header information that declares it as XML (as Google Video checks this).

2. Your player's path listed in your sitemap is incorrect. Google will not show videos if it cannot load everything in the map.

[mersh]

Thanks, bplex... you know, I downloaded that php file here, never even looked at it :) just figured it was ok.

[bplex]

Ah. Yeah, I wrote my own as mine does not link directly to the videos. Rather, to the page on my site. When you search on Google, it directs you to my site to watch the videos.

[mersh]

Your video sitemap isn't XML according to the header. You will need to send header information that declares it as XML (as Google Video checks this).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> 
- <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.0">

shows up at the top of the map - isn't this what I want?

[bplex]

Yes, you want that as well. However, no, that declaration doesn't specify that the page is XML. Rather, it specifies that the content is XML. You will want to add this before you start echoing your page:

header("Content-Type: text/xml"); 
header("Expires: 0");

[mersh]

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

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