Video Sitemap Error

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Hi

I am using a Video snippet and this error was generated about the duration tag. Can someone tell me how to fix it? and will this error prevent snippet to work on the sear results?

Thanks Mozzers!

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[FedeEinhorn]

Value of the duration tag must be in seconds. In your example it should be "98". The duration tag accepts from 0 to 28800 (8 hours).

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Thanks Federico!

Do you think that this error would prevent the rich snippet from showing up in the SERP? Because before I implement code into the page I tested the snippet on http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets an no errors was showing up!

Other question: since this video is a youtube video do I have to add a video sitemap line in the robots.txt or not?

Thanks!

[FedeEinhorn]

No, it shouldn't mess with the snippet. Snippets aren't created from the content of the XML feed, but from the video markup in the site. The sitemap only allows Google to easily identify the videos in your site.

As for the robots.txt question, there's no need to specify the video sitemap location, you can if you want, but that won't give you any "boost". Regardless if the videos are youtube hosted or not.

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Thank you Federico!