AIOSEO - Video Sitemap

Videos are easy to publish and hard to describe to search engines by hand. A video sitemap lists each video with details crawlers look for, and writing one manually means technical formatting that is easy to get wrong. AIOSEO – Video Sitemap handles that work inside WordPress. It detects videos across your posts and pages, including embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos and self-hosted files, and builds the sitemap for you.

Once videos are found, the plugin updates the sitemap when you add or change them. You choose which content types and which videos appear, set the priority of video URLs, and check the sitemap against Google's specifications. You can submit it to Google, Bing and Yandex from the WordPress dashboard. It fits blogs, business sites and media sites where video is a regular part of the content.

Features

• Automatic sitemap generation: Creates a video sitemap for your WordPress site and updates it when you publish new video content, so you do not have to maintain the file by hand.
• Video detection across sources: Finds videos on your site, including embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos as well as self-hosted files, so the sitemap reflects the video content you actually publish.
• Dynamic updates: Reflects additions and changes to your videos in the sitemap automatically, so the listing stays in line with what is on your site.
• Search engine submission: Lets you submit the video sitemap to Google, Bing and Yandex directly from your WordPress dashboard.
• Control over what is included: Offers controls to pick which content types and specific videos appear in the sitemap, so you decide what search engines are shown.
• Video schema markup: Adds structured data to your videos automatically, which helps search engines understand them and makes rich snippets possible.
• Thumbnails and priority settings: Generates video thumbnails and lets you set the priority of video URLs within the sitemap to guide how crawlers treat them.
• Validation against Google specifications: Checks the video sitemap against Google's specifications so formatting problems that could cause indexing issues can be caught.

Best for

• Bloggers who embed YouTube or Vimeo videos in posts
• Businesses publishing self-hosted video on WordPress
• SEO managers handling video sitemaps for client sites