Schema.org markup is the recommended method for providing Google with information about the types of content on your page. Using it requires only a few non-visible changes to your web page. Visit www.schema.org for more information. … [Read more...]
Notifying Google of Video Updates
If you are using an on-page markup such as schema.org, Google will update video data when the page is crawled. If you are using a video sitemap or mRSS feed, Google will periodically re-download the sitemap or feed from your site. … [Read more...]
Introduction to Rich Snippets
Rich Snippets are markup tags that webmasters can put in their sites in order to tell Google what type of content they have on their site so that we can better display it in search results. For more information, visit our help center: www.google.com … [Read more...]
Common Video Indexing Pitfalls
If your video isn't being indexed and served properly, most likely it's because Google doesn't have enough data about it. Find out some best practices for video indexing in this help article: www.google.com … [Read more...]
Video Country Restrictions
Country restrictions are a feature in schema.org, video sitemaps and mRSS that allow you specify where your videos are allowed to play. Read more about the schema.org VideoObject at www.schema.org and about video sitemaps at www.google.com … [Read more...]
Video Platform Restrictions
If you are using video sitemaps, you can limit what kind of devices your video result will appear on with platform restrictions. Find out more about the video sitemap specifications at www.google.com … [Read more...]
Testing Your Video Markup
Testing and submitting videos is easy with both on page markups like schema.org and and video sitemaps or mRSS feeds. Use the rich snippets testing tool (www.google.com for on page markups and Google Webmaster Tools (www.google.com for sitemaps and … [Read more...]
Alternate Markups for Videos
While we recommend that you use the schema.org markup and the video sitemaps specification to provide video metadata to Google, we do support Facebook share, opengraph, and Yahoo searchmonkey RDFa markups, in addition to media RSS feeds, including … [Read more...]
Schema.org for Videos
The schema.org markup is our recommended method for providing Google with the metadata needed to index your videos. Using it requires only a few non-visible changes to your video web page. You can find the full schema.org spec here: www.schema.org … [Read more...]
Introduction to Video Markup
In order for your videos to be properly indexed and displayed on Google, you'll need to properly markup your videos using the markup described in this site: www.google.com … [Read more...]