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title: "Video Sitemap Plugins For WordPress"
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date: 2019-08-30
modified: 2023-07-07
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# Video Sitemap Plugins For WordPress

Videos are difficult and expensive to produce. But the marketing benefits of high-production-value videos are tempting and measurable. Video can make your site or product go through the roof in terms of traffic and overall visibility. So you *need* videos. But if your videos aren’t popping up in search results, what can you do? Help the search engines find your videos with a **video sitemap**.

- [What are video sitemaps?](#what)
- [Learn about video sitemap plugins for WordPress.](#video-sitemaps)

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## What Are Video Sitemaps?

First, if you don’t already, you should know what a regular sitemap is. You can think of sitemaps as a literal “map” of your site. A sitemap is basically a structured listing of all your web pages in a format that’s most easily digestible for search engines. It’s like giving the search engine a helping hand in finding all of the content of your site.

Sitemaps are a *pain* to generate manually. That’s why there are WordPress plugins to help you. These plugins can generate the sitemap automatically, saving you hours of hard labor.

A video sitemap lists all of the pages of your site that contain videos. All you need to do is embed the video properly on your pages and/or posts, and the plugin will crawl your site to generate the video sitemap.

## Using Video Sitemap Plugins

Here is a short list of video sitemap plugins you may want to try out on your site:

- [Sitemap Generator](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mb-sitemap-generator/): This WordPress plugin creates standard sitemaps in the free version and is well reviewed by users in general. The video sitemap feature comes with the paid version of the plugin.
- [YouTube Video Sitemap Generator](https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-video-sitemap-generator/): This free plugin solution is favorably reviewed, but it hasn’t been updated in over four years. It may be abandoned by the developer. Use with caution.
- [Yoast Video SEO](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/video-seo/): probably the best choice for small business purposes, the Yoast Video SEO plugin is a paid plugin that lets you use [YouTube](https://youtube.com) as well as [Wistia](https://wistia.com/) and [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/) videos for your sitemap.

Having a video sitemap greatly improves your chances of getting better video search results. But, make sure the rest of your [SEO game](/support/website/seo/seo-getting-started-guide/) is solid, and you’ll be giving your site a good chance of ranking well.