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Webmasters will now be happy as you can help Google index your videos and make it more searchable through Google Video Search. You can now tell Google where are your video files and they will be gladly added into their web crawler, that is if you submit with a sitemap which is compliance to Google Sitemap Protocols, which has been standardize by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! since year 2006.

To get you started:

1) Create a Video Sitemap and save it at a publicly accessible URL. Currently, Google cannot retrieve files from URLs that are protected by authentication (even basic HTTP authentication). The feed and the URLs pointed to by the feed must have their robots.txt file set appropriately for UserAgent “Googlebot”.
2) Sign into Google webmaster tools with your Google Account.
3) Add your site to your account. Your site will be the URL to the directory at which you’ve placed your Video Sitemap. For example, if the URL to your Sitemap is “http://www.example.com/videofeed.xml”, you will need to add a site “http://www.example.com”.
4) Click Add a Sitemap beside the site.
5) Select Video Sitemap.
6) Type the URL to your Video Sitemap in the provided field. Make sure you include the entire URL, such as “http://www.example.com/videofeed.xml”.
7) Click Add Video Sitemap.

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