Video Sitemap for product pages

[CandymanKen]

Hi all-

i have a video that talks about a particular type of product and have it set up on every page in that category. I am in the process of updating our video sitemap and want to know if I should list all the occurrences in the sitemap or just one? I had asked a similar question earlier about placement, but here I am specifically interested in the sitemap.

Thanks!

Ken

[PhilNottingham]

Hi Ken,

This is a tricky question to answer without more visibility over your site, the video and the overall plans - but concretely I'd probably just recommend getting the video indexed on the main page you want to rank with that video. Having the same thumbnail appear across a number of pages can be a bit weird, and is ostensibly the same as having duplicate text across multiple pages - that is to say it can cannibalise rankings if done at scale.

Thanks,

Phil.

[CandymanKen]

Thanks Phil,

That's kind of what I was thinking.
Ken