How to format a video sitemap for GWT using Vimeo iframe code
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I noticed a thread on this forum about using the old embedd code from vimeo for videos, although I can't see this option in Vimeo in 2013.
My Question is I have Iframe embedded videos from vimeo,
How do I format a google video site map accordingly?
or do I need a custom media player instead?
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Using the tool I have this.. Ive submitted the following to GWT but have errors saying it's an invalid URL..
<url><loc>www.thefurnituremarket.co.uk</loc></url>video:thumbnail_lochttp://www.thefurnituremarket.co.uk/videos/home.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>video:titleAbout The Furniture Market</video:title>video:descriptionA video all about The Furniture Market a Multi Award Winning Company, based in Kelsall, Cheshire, UK.</video:description>video:content_loc"http://player.vimeo.com/external/56085518.hd.mp4?s=4d34a69f32af0d61e3c19212bdd67a81</video:content_loc>video:duration92</video:duration>video:publication_date2012-12-21</video:publication_date>video:family_friendlyyes</video:family_friendly>video:tagFurniture</video:tag>video:tagFurniture</video:tag>video:tagFurniture</video:tag><video:uploader info="http://www.thefurnituremarket.co.uk/">The Furniture Market</video:uploader>video:liveno</video:live>
I tried with http: had the same error message
I am using the new vimeo iframe embed code.
any ideas? I read your forum thread but couldn't see any answers.
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No. Just the iframe will be fine, as long as you have set up the video sitemap properly.
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For the new Vimeo videos in a pro account, do I need to add the <embed> mark up to the page the video is on?
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I've detailed the exact process for vimeo fairly explicitly in this post http://www.distilled.net/blog/video/creating-video-sitemaps-for-each-video-hosting-platform/
You need to find the Thumbnail and player details, then you can use the Googledoc
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yeah we paid the $199 its a no brainer.
these videos come from vimeo and are on the pro platform
this video here http://www.thefurnituremarket.co.uk/about.asp
If we can get away with it how do I format the sitemap using Distilled google doc here..
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yeah we paid the $199 its a no brainer.
these videos come from vimeo and are on the pro platform
this video here http://www.thefurnituremarket.co.uk/about.asp
If we can get away with it how do I format the sitemap using Distilled google doc here..
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Vimeo Pro is not the same as vimeo. It's a cheap hosting platform, where vimeo is a video community website. The key regarding "keeping SEO benefit" is whether or not it's also visible on vimeo.com. If you have Vimeo PRO, then you can make it only visible on your site.
Whether it's hosted on a branded cname subdomain or not actually makes no difference at all.
iFrame isn't that bad, it just doesn't get indexed as easily as flash by Google. I've seen them get better at this recently though.
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I am confused now.
I thought if you had a subdomain
** videos.mysite.com**
This will have more authority than if you have videos linking out to vimeo etc..
I also don't understand why i frame is so bad.
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Makes no difference from an SEO perspective, so i suggest making the decision based on other factors such as resource and budget.
The key with SEO is to make your page look like the canonical, either by enabling domain restrictions on third party platforms, or hosting it yourself. It's pretty cheap to set up a cloudfront server or similar.
If you want to make things as simple and as easy as possible, Wistia have the best autogenerated video sitemap system available.
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Wouldn't we just be better off hosting these on our server with a nice custom media player?
We have our own server my only slight concern is bandwidth issues.
Ideally Phil would this be your recommendation?
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You're right about the first bit, but not about the second.
I assume you have a Vimeo Pro account? if so, you can enable domain restrictions once you "disable community pass".
Use the iframe embed, but reference the flash file (located within the old embed code) as the player_loc tag. in your video sitemap
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I may be wrong here but the old embed code uses a kind of flash player so our lovely iPad customers would miss out.
Am I right?
Also to enable the old embed code it makes the video embeddable on any website, and we don't want that.
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You want this article http://www.distilled.net/blog/video/creating-video-sitemaps-for-each-video-hosting-platform/
Which explains your problem in detail.
Also, the old embed code is still there, it's just that it's harder to find.
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So use this embedd code in that doc and generate an output?
Will it matter the video is not hosted on our own server?
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Have you tried the Distilled Video Sitemap generator?
I think this is the Google doc for it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhK1-u_-nIZhdE5KdEFTYVJCN3M4Yk9Xb2pfY0hrQkE#gid=0
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