Video Sitemaps: An Emerging SEO Tool

By now every one knows about the importance of creating a sitemap and submitting it to Google. It should be kept in mind that these sitemaps are not only important for Google ranking but it also allows Google to help you index more pages and more frequently which in the end help with your ranking in a round about way.

Google now allows you to submit video sitemaps as well. Since blogs and video sites usually have a higher PR ranking than article directories, you should consider to moving to these areas for marketing your website. Also Since videos are listed above in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) they would be even more important.
 
A video sitemap uses the sitemap protocol, with additional Video-specific tags as defined below. In its simplest form, a Video Sitemap must include a link to a landing page for a video as well as some essential information required for indexing the video. While several fields in the Sitemap are optional, they provide useful metadata that can improve our ability to include your video in the search result. Google may use text available on your video’s page rather than the text you supply in the video Sitemap, if this differs.