WP Video SEO
Video sitemap is a way to help search engine discover your videos and index them accordingly. It also allows you to link one video to a specific post/page
WP Video SEO Features
- Generate a sitemap for your YouTube videos
- Reduce the time taken by the search engine to index your videos
- Allow search engine to display a thumbnail of the video along with the title and description of the post/page
WP Video SEO Plugin Usage
Video Sitemap Generation
The plugin is fairly simple to use. Once you have installed the plugin go to the settings menu of the plugin from your WP Dashboard (Settings->WP Video SEO). Click on the “Generate Video Sitemap” button which will create a video sitemap in the root directory of your site. Check to make sure that the file “sitemap-video.xml” has been created.
If you make any changes to your existing posts/pages the sitemap will be updated automatically. So you just need to generate it once. The full URL to your video sitemap usually looks like the following:
[www.example.com/sitemap-video.xml]
If you are using Google Webmaster Tools you can submit the “sitemap-video.xml” file as a sitemap which will allow you to monitor the index status of your videos.
For detailed documentation please visit the WordPress Video SEO plugin page
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.