Monday, September 14, 2009
Have you ever wondered how to increase the chances of your videos appearing in Google’s results?
Over the last year, the Video Search team has been working hard to improve our index of video
on the Web. Today, we’re beginning the first in a series of posts to explain some best practices
for sites hosting video content.
We
previously
talked about the importance of
submitting a Video Sitemap or mRSS feed
to Google and following Google’s
webmaster guidelines.
However, we wanted to offer webmasters an additional tool, so today we’re taking a page from the
rich snippets playbook and
announcing support for Facebook Share
and Yahoo! SearchMonkey RDFa.
Both of these markup formats allow you to specify information essential to video indexing, such
as a video’s title and description, within the HTML of a video page. While we’ve become smarter
at discovering this information on our own, we’d certainly appreciate some hints directly from
webmasters. Also, to maximize the chances that we find the markup on your video pages, you
should make sure it appears in the HTML without the execution of JavaScript or Flash.
So, check out Facebook Share and RDFa and help Google find your videos!
Facebook Share:
RDFa (Yahoo! SearchMonkey):
Cómo lo aplicamos
Google announcements age. We keep this post here for the record, and we note for clients whether the behaviour it describes still applies today or has since been superseded.
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