More good news for video marketers: Google has rolled out a new video sitemap protocol. This is a good thing for webmasters doing any kind of video marketing.
The video sitemap has the potential to explode your videos all over the Internet. Before, video marketers had to rely on YouTube and other video sharing sites to get the message out about their businesses. Now, you can go viral with organic SEO.
I knew the search engines would eventually find a way to make this happen. In addition to posting your videos on the video sharing sites, you should also upload them to your own website and add a video sitemap to the website to let the search engines know whenever you have new video content. But with the sitemap work with embedded videos? In other words, can you upload your videos to YouTube and embed them on your own website or blog expecting the search engines to crawl them?
I see no reason why you can’t do that, but it is likely that it will be considered duplicate content and YouTube will be the first choice for the search engines. If you want your website to climb in the search listings then you should upload the videos to your website or blog first then upload them to the video sharing sites. By doing it that way you increase your chances of getting indexed by the search engine for each video on your website – if you have a video sitemap.
