{"id":46664,"date":"2019-08-30T12:36:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/?p=46664"},"modified":"2023-07-07T16:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T20:22:52","slug":"video-sitemap-plugins-for-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/video-sitemap-plugins-for-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Sitemap Plugins For WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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 <em>need<\/em> videos. But if your videos aren&#8217;t popping up in search results, what can you do? Help the search engines find your videos with a <strong>video sitemap<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#what\">What are video sitemaps?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#video-sitemaps\">Learn about video sitemap plugins for WordPress.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alert alert-info\">Remember: your SEO efforts are wasted if your site experiences constant technical issues. This is how InMotion Hosting&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/wordpress-hosting\">WordPress Hosting<\/a> plans gives you peace of mind. They&#8217;ve taken care of the technical concerns, so you can focus on creating a great website.<a name=\"what\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Are Video Sitemaps?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>First, if you don&#8217;t already, you should know what a regular sitemap is. You can think of sitemaps as a literal &#8220;map&#8221; of your site. A sitemap is basically a structured listing of all your web pages in a format that&#8217;s most easily digestible for search engines. It&#8217;s like giving the search engine a helping hand in finding all of the content of your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sitemaps are a <em>pain<\/em> to generate manually. That&#8217;s why there are WordPress plugins to help you. These plugins can generate the sitemap automatically, saving you hours of hard labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A video sitemap lists all of the pages of your site that contain videos. 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Use with caution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/video-seo\/\">Yoast Video SEO<\/a>: probably the best choice for small business purposes, the Yoast Video SEO plugin is a paid plugin that lets you use <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\">YouTube<\/a> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/wistia.com\/\">Wistia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/\">Vimeo<\/a> videos for your sitemap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a video sitemap greatly improves your chances of getting better video search results. But, make sure the rest of your <a href=\"\/support\/website\/seo\/seo-getting-started-guide\/\">SEO game<\/a> is solid, and you&#8217;ll be giving your site a good chance of ranking well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videos are difficult and expensive to produce. But the marketing benefits of high-production-value videos are tempting and measurable. 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