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Video Sitemap in webmaster tools

by poppybaby
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I have a video sitemap that appears to be working. Hits to the videos have improved once I have created it. It shows all links as indexed in the google Webmaster tools,(good.)
However, when I click on "see sitemap," at the top it says: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it."
I am wondering what style it is talking about? I have all requirements, tags titles, length, rating, etc..

Any Warrior familiar with this tidbit?

Many thanks.
#sitemap #tools #video #webmaster
  • Profile picture of the author imarketstuff
    hey there poppy

    if the xml sitemap is being slurped in by the SE's and you see the videos indexed, that's great.. so don't worry about not being able to see the xml inside your browser.

    i did some research on this and a few ppl have asked the same question.. here's one answer that may help you:

    ..it's just raw xml. IE throws that message because it can't find a linked XSLT style sheet on it to mark it up in 'browser view'. no worries, its not for 'human' reading, thus doesn't need to be styled.
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  • Profile picture of the author poppybaby
    Ohhh I see, I was looking in Firefox. But I suppose no style makes sense that its the browser reporting. I thought that was a note from the WMstr tools...
    Thanks again.
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    • Profile picture of the author bradlean
      HI can I ask w/ regards about video sitemap.

      Kinda little bit hanging here.

      Does anyone give me a clear view?

      Thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author bradlean
        Anyway, I just heard some in the forum post or in youtube comments that google does not allow video sitemap anymore...

        Is that true?

        Hope to reply so that I wont waste my time creating them w/ no results.
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  • Profile picture of the author jayalaxmi
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    Originally Posted by poppybaby View Post

    I have a video sitemap that appears to be working. Hits to the videos have improved once I have created it. It shows all links as indexed in the google Webmaster tools,(good.)
    However, when I click on "see sitemap," at the top it says: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it."
    I am wondering what style it is talking about? I have all requirements, tags titles, length, rating, etc..

    Any Warrior familiar with this tidbit?

    Many thanks.

    never heard video sitemap.looks strange.for all things in a website .there is single sitemap you can create at google webmaster tools
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    • Profile picture of the author poppybaby
      I believe that GOOG cares still about sitemaps. They can not read what is in a video like flash. They can read text around it or the meta for the page but can not read what's in the video.
      I believe they love video (they bought youtube right?) I would be suprised if they are not needing a separate video sitemap at this point.
      Besides the reasons I stated above I have a recent development to explain why I think they still care.
      You can see in the Webmaster tools that at the bottom left there is a heading called LABS, the 3rd subheading is Video Sitemaps.
      Also, within sitemaps I submitted a Video sitemap, which G recognized and gave it the type of "Video" (sitemap), other sitemap types I have are "sitemap" and "image" so I believe as of today they recognize these TYPES of sitemaps and are still categorizing them.
      Back to the LABS I mentioned. I was getting errors and found that I was not allowing Robots to crawl the Video "thumbnail" which they need to display when they show your site in the Search Engine Results. (the magnifying glass) you see when you get search results from a GOOG query.
      So, I had 35 errors in the Sitemap for my video sitemap (I have 35 videos) and I went in and added access to the robots to have access to this folder that had my thumbnails for the videos. It has been a week but today, those "errors" I was getting are gone from Webmaster tools.
      This leads me to believe that they are still paying attention to it, whether they give it any SER credit I have NO idea.
      If I have confused you more please ask where clarification is needed I am happy to help.
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