The Big G releases sitemaps for Video
The Big G (our own little nickname for Google), has released a new sitemaps protocol for video. So if any of you guys hosts videos on your site, its time to get integrating into your sites. More information can be found on the official Big G blog.
Any plugin developers for WordPress feel that this might a good time to develop something for video blogs? Yep. There’s undoubtedly an opportunity to capitalise on here, considering how successfully some sites which generate sitemaps have become at getting visitors. The early bird catches the worm and all that.
My take on this is that the audio content within video will now be much more easier to parse, and therefore making video more readily searchable, outside of Youtube and Google video. The sitemaps will also contain meta information from the video as well. Title, Player location, Thumbnail location and a description are all available for webmasters.
