Video Sitemaps For Vimeo - How To Get Your Vimeo Embeds Into Google Search

Google is pushing hard to let people know that video sitemaps are the way to go when looking to get video into Google’s search results. And I am happy to report to you that video sitemaps DO work for Vimeo videos.

Greg Funk, Product Manager at YouTube/Google stated the following in a comment posted to a previous article of ours.

“Video sitemaps are useful to Google regardless of how video gets onto your site. If you post …on any other site and then embed that player onto your site, a video sitemap will help us ‘find’ that embed. Think of it as a way to cue us where to look.” – Greg Funk Product Manager, Google

What does this mean? Well, according to Google, they want sitemaps for any and all videos on your website, regardless of whether they are published to your site using a video sharing site, self-hosted, or using a video hosting platform. With regard to YouTube videos, Im working on an answer for all of those who are interested in getting YouTube embeds indexed. For now, let’s start with videos from Vimeo.

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