Video Sitemap - Google Still Not Indexing My Video (Sitemap Markup Included)

[DavidZA1]

Hi There

I have submitted my video-sitemap back in October within Google Webmaster Tools.

Now it still hasn't been indexed.

Can somebody please have a look at my markup below and tell me if I am doing something wrong.You will notice that I didn't include the location of the flash player in the video-sitemap. Not sure if that could be a reason as to why it hasn't been indexed yet.Also page on which video is embedded/hosted does itself not include any schema markup.

Thanks in advance.David.

Here is the current video-sitemap markup:

"xxxx" and "example" = removed keywords and website name for privacy reasons.

<urlset<span> xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"</urlset<span> xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1">https://www.example.co.za/index.htmlvideo:thumbnail_loc</video:thumbnail_loc>https://www.example.co.za/Images/example_logo_2.jpgxxxxxxxxhttps://www.example.co.za/example.flvvideo:tag</video:tag>xxxxvideo:tag</video:tag>xxxxvideo:tag</video:tag>xxxxvideo:tag</video:tag>xxxxvideo:tag</video:tag>xxxxvideo:tag</video:tag>xxxxvideo:tag</video:tag>xxxxvideo:duration</video:duration>63novideo:uploader</video:uploader>xxxx

[OlegKorneitchouk]

I recommend you check out GWT and see if they are reporting any problems with your video sitemap.

In addition, I recommend you check out a video sitemap for a site that is showing video results in SERPs and see if your code is different from theirs. Check out http://yoast.com/video-sitemap.xml

I'm also pretty sure that even if you do have a video sitemap set correctly, G will not necessarily show video results in serps.

Good luck!

-Oleg

[Unity]

You can use the player location or content location - you don't have to use both.

You are using all required fields in your sitemap so that's good.

The issue could be that your robots.txt file is blocking access, could be something like blocking access to image folder where the sitemap points thumbnails to... etc.
Can you provide your robots.txt information? Or private message it to me?

[DavidZA1]

Hi Guys

Thanks for the responses.

@Oleg I will double check, but I am sure there is no errors, cause I have already checked.

@Davinia I will pm you my robots.txt file.Thanks.

[dimicos]

In our case, we added both page URL (<loc>) and video content location in the video sitemap.

Is there a chance of canibalization, since only the content loc URL has been indexed by Google?
Note: we added the schema.org properties as well (Embed URL).

Thanks</loc>