Description
Video sitemaps help the search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo to discover your video content from your website.
This Video Sitemap Generator plugin will generate XML Sitemap for all YouTube, dailymotion, Vimeo and HDW player videos that you have embedded in your posts.
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Installation
Here’s how you can install the plugin:
- Upload the plugins folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Expand the Tools menu from WordPress dashboard sidebar and select “WP Video Sitemap.”
- Click the “Generate Video Sitemap” button to create your XML Sitemap for videos.
- Once you have created your Sitemap, you can submit it to Google using Webmaster Tools.
FAQ
- Installation Instructions
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Here’s how you can install the plugin:
- Upload the plugins folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Expand the Tools menu from WordPress dashboard sidebar and select “WP Video Sitemap.”
- Click the “Generate Video Sitemap” button to create your XML Sitemap for videos.
- Once you have created your Sitemap, you can submit it to Google using Webmaster Tools.
- How can I submit my video sitemap to Google?
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Once you have created your Sitemap, you can submit it to Google using Webmaster Tools. Google don’t guarantee that all videos included in a Sitemap will appear in our search results.
- Where’s the sitemap file stored?
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You can find the sitemap-video.xml file in your website’s root folder.
- I am getting Permission Denied like errors
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It implies that you don’t have write permissions on your website’s root folder. Please use chmod or your FTP manager to set the necessary permissions to 0666.
- Can I block search engines from indexing pages that are in the XML Sitemap file?
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The Sitemaps protocol enables you to let search engines know what content you would like indexed. To tell search engines the content you don’t want indexed, use a robots.txt file or add a robots meta tag to the web page that you would like to block.
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Contributors & Developers
“Video SEO, Youtube SEO Sitemap” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial Release