In our effort to help users search all the world's public videos, the Google Video team joined the
Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps—an extension of the
Sitemap Protocol that
helps make your videos more searchable via
Google Video Search. By submitting
this video-specific Sitemap in addition to your standard Sitemap, you can specify all the video
files on your site, along with relevant metadata. Here's an example:
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