Build Video Sitemap with XML Sitemaps Generator

Building video sitemaps requires extra crawler configuration. However, beyond that, making video XML Sitemaps for search engines such as Google is similar to the process for generating normal XML sitemaps.

Note: Depending on the website, it may not always be possible to generate video sitemaps.

For video sitemaps, you will first have make sure configuration includes relevant video file extensions an MIME types in output filters. The list of video formats Google accepts include: mpg, mpeg, mp4, mov, mv, asf, avi, ra, ram, rm, flv and more as they are added.

To make things easy, A1 Sitemap Generator contains a preset option that configures all settings to work for most video websites.

Note: Even when using the preset button, you can still benefit from configuring the video sitemap crawler options. Using output filters will help when multiple page URLs contain the same video file.

After website scan, you can create the Google video XML sitemap by choosing the correct sitemap file kind to create:

While .swt flash movie files are not officially supported if trusting the documentation provided by Google for video sitemaps, you can still include such files as videos. To do that, add the .swt file extension to output filters.