Submit All Content In A Single Sitemap

Sitemaps are a great way to let Google and other search engines know about the content on your website. In order to accommodate video, image, and other non-textual content, specialized sitemaps were introduced. For example, you could submit a sitemap for your html pages, another sitemap for your video content, another one for images, and so on. Seems a bit tedious, right? Well that is no longer necessary thanks to Google now supporting sitemaps that include all of your content types in a single file.

Sitemaps can now be created to reference all of your content, specified by how you want it to be found. Specifically, standard webpages can be identified for a standard web search, videos can be identified for video search and so on. Just be sure to follow the standard sitemap guidelines.

Create a Video Sitemap

Having trouble getting your videos indexed by Google? There are a few ways to help Google both find and index the video files on your website. One almost surefire way to assist Google is to create a video sitemap. If implemented correctly, a video sitemap provides search engines with substantially more information than even a regular sitemap. Through use of a video sitemap, you can provide important information about your videos including the urls of the pages on which they reside, titles, keywords, thumbnails, and more.

Once you create a video sitemap, it is very easy to submit to Google. You simply submit it within your Google Webmaster Tools account the same way you submit a sitemap of your website. By submitting a video sitemap, you can substantially increase the likelihood of your videos showing up in Google's search results.