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(Entry was posted by Luke Rees on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 07/22/2014).

I am having trouble indexing videos from my sitemap on Google

Hi, I am having trouble indexing videos from my sitemap on Google. I posted this question on the Google Webmaster Central Help forum however got no responses so was wondering if anyone could help me out.

We added about 126 videos to one of our sites a few months ago. Google indexed all the pages in a few days and has crawled, indexed and ranked the pages containing videos. However, not a single one of the 126 videos itself has been indexed. 

I`ve read the FAQs and searched the help center. We`ve modified the site, updated the sitemap as per various suggestions and none of that seems to have made the slightest difference. This has me quite stumped as to why Google refuses to index the videos.

My URL is: http://pink.accuracast(dot)com

This is what one of the videos submitted on the XML sitemap is declared as:


http://pink.accuracast(dot)com/en/en2-ikea-1st-gay-ad/


http://pink.accuracast(dot)com/wp-content/uploads/ikea-couple-thumb.png

IKEA - 1st gay ad

1994, IKEA run the first commercial ever showing a gay couple.


http://pink.accuracast(dot)com/wp-content/uploads/EN2-IKEA-1st-gay-ad.mp4
31



Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated.?
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  • Luke Rees:
    Hi, I am having trouble indexing videos from my sitemap on Google. I posted this question on the Google Webmaster Central Help forum however got no responses so was wondering if anyone could help me out.

    We added about 126 videos to one of our sites a few months ago. Google indexed all the pages in a few days and has crawled, indexed and ranked the pages containing videos. However, not a single one of the 126 videos itself has been indexed. ;

    I've read the FAQs and searched the help center. We've modified the site, updated the sitemap as per various suggestions and none of that seems to have made the slightest difference. This has me quite stumped as to why Google refuses to index the videos.

    My URL is: http://pink.accuracast(dot)com

    This is what one of the videos submitted on the XML sitemap is declared as:

    <url>
    <loc>http://pink.accuracast(dot)com/en/en2-ikea-1st-gay-ad/</loc>
    <video:video>
    <video:thumbnail_loc>
    http://pink.accuracast(dot)com/wp-content/uploads/ikea-couple-thumb.png
    </video:thumbnail_loc>
    <video:title>IKEA - 1st gay ad</video:title>
    <video:description>
    1994, IKEA run the first commercial ever showing a gay couple.
    </video:description>
    <video:content_loc>
    http://pink.accuracast(dot)com/wp-content/uploads/EN2-IKEA-1st-gay-ad.mp4 </video:content_loc>
    <video:duration>31</video:duration>
    </video:video>
    </url>

    Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated.

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