To improve video indexing, Google Webmaster has now added support for Facebook Share and Yahoo! SearchMonkey RDFa markup format to let you specify information like a video’s title and description, within the HTML of a video page.
As Video search is becoming more and more popular, Google wants webmasters who offer video content to be able to get their videos displayed in search results more easily. Both Facebook Share and Yahoo! SeachMonkey RDFa allow for webmasters to specify the important information for video indexing.
The formats are based on simple things like titles and descriptions within the HTML of a video page. Google does suggest that webmasters make their mark up on videos pages appear in the HTML without the execution of JavaScript or flash.
“While we’ve become smarter at discovering this information on our own, we’d certainly appreciate some hints directly from webmasters,” says Google’s Michael Cohen, Product Manager for the Video Search Team.
Google has also kicked off a series of Webmaster Central Blog posts, which are geared towards giving tips to get your videos indexed.
Find out more from the Google Webmaster Central Blog
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